The Boogeyman
E192799
"The Boogeyman" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a man recounting terrifying encounters with a child-killing monster to a psychiatrist.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Boogeyman canonical | 4 |
| The Boogeyman (1980 short film) | 1 |
| The Boogeyman (2005 short film) | 1 |
| The Boogeyman (2023 film) | 1 |
| the Boogeyman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714726 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Boogeyman Context triple: [Night Shift, hasShortStory, The Boogeyman]
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A.
Candyman
"Candyman" is a retro-styled pop song by Christina Aguilera, inspired by 1940s swing and pin-up aesthetics and known for its brassy, upbeat sound and playful lyrics.
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B.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
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C.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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D.
The Babadook
The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film about a grieving mother and her troubled son who are terrorized by a sinister entity emerging from a mysterious children's pop-up book.
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E.
Creepshow
Creepshow is a 1982 horror-comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, paying homage to 1950s EC horror comics through a series of macabre, darkly humorous stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Boogeyman Target entity description: "The Boogeyman" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a man recounting terrifying encounters with a child-killing monster to a psychiatrist.
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A.
Candyman
"Candyman" is a retro-styled pop song by Christina Aguilera, inspired by 1940s swing and pin-up aesthetics and known for its brassy, upbeat sound and playful lyrics.
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B.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
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C.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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D.
The Babadook
The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film about a grieving mother and her troubled son who are terrorized by a sinister entity emerging from a mysterious children's pop-up book.
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E.
Creepshow
Creepshow is a 1982 horror-comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, paying homage to 1950s EC horror comics through a series of macabre, darkly humorous stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Boogeyman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Boogeyman (1980 short film)
The Boogeyman self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Boogeyman (2005 short film)
The Boogeyman self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Boogeyman (2023 film)
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| adaptedTo | film ⓘ |
| antagonist |
The Boogeyman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
the Boogeyman
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| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
man versus guilt
ⓘ
man versus supernatural entity ⓘ |
| collection | Night Shift ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter | Dr. Harper ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Cavalier magazine ⓘ |
| frameNarrative | therapy session ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasMonsterType | supernatural entity ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
closet door
ⓘ
confession ⓘ nighttime terror ⓘ |
| hasTone |
grim
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ |
| hasTwistEnding | yes ⓘ |
| hasViolenceLevel | moderate to graphic ⓘ |
| includedInGenreCategory |
American horror short stories
ⓘ
short stories by Stephen King ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterIncludedIn | Night Shift ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | conversational monologue ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lester Billings ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableElement |
closet-dwelling monster
ⓘ
psychiatric interview structure ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| partOf | Stephen King short fiction bibliography ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | factory worker ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting | psychiatrist's office ⓘ |
| targetVictims | children ⓘ |
| theme |
child endangerment
ⓘ
fear of the dark ⓘ parental guilt ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Boogeyman Description of subject: "The Boogeyman" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a man recounting terrifying encounters with a child-killing monster to a psychiatrist.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Boogeyman
this entity surface form:
The Boogeyman (1980 short film)
this entity surface form:
The Boogeyman (2005 short film)
this entity surface form:
The Boogeyman (2023 film)