novel "The Haunting of Hill House"
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"The Haunting of Hill House" is a landmark 1959 gothic horror novel by Shirley Jackson about a group of people investigating a notoriously haunted mansion, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest ghost stories in modern literature.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715172 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "The Haunting of Hill House" Context triple: [Shirley Jackson, hasPart, novel "The Haunting of Hill House"]
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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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B.
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep is a horror novel by Stephen King that serves as a sequel to The Shining, following an adult Danny Torrance as he confronts new supernatural threats.
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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.
Bates Motel
Bates Motel is a contemporary psychological horror–drama television series that serves as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, exploring the twisted relationship between Norman Bates and his mother, Norma.
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E.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
- 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: novel "The Haunting of Hill House" Target entity description: "The Haunting of Hill House" is a landmark 1959 gothic horror novel by Shirley Jackson about a group of people investigating a notoriously haunted mansion, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest ghost stories in modern literature.
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A.
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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B.
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep is a horror novel by Stephen King that serves as a sequel to The Shining, following an adult Danny Torrance as he confronts new supernatural threats.
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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.
Bates Motel
Bates Motel is a contemporary psychological horror–drama television series that serves as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, exploring the twisted relationship between Norman Bates and his mother, Norma.
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E.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ghost story
ⓘ
gothic horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Haunting
ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting (1963 film)
The Haunting ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting (1999 film)
The Haunting of Hill House ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (2018 TV series)
|
| author | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| centralLocation | a remote country estate ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| explores |
family trauma
ⓘ
female subjectivity ⓘ psychological vulnerability ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
gothic fiction
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotiveForce | ambiguous supernatural phenomena ⓘ |
| hasOpeningLine | No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
isolation
ⓘ
madness ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Hill House ⓘ |
| inCanon | American horror canon ⓘ |
| influenced | modern haunted house fiction ⓘ |
| isConsidered |
a classic of horror literature
ⓘ
one of the greatest ghost stories of the 20th century ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn |
courses on American literature
ⓘ
courses on horror literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. John Montague
ⓘ
Eleanor Vance ⓘ Luke Sanderson ⓘ Theodora ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | 246 ⓘ |
| protagonist | Eleanor Vance ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
|
| setting |
Hill House
ⓘ
a haunted mansion ⓘ |
| structure | novel in chapters ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 20th century ⓘ |
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Subject: novel "The Haunting of Hill House" Description of subject: "The Haunting of Hill House" is a landmark 1959 gothic horror novel by Shirley Jackson about a group of people investigating a notoriously haunted mansion, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest ghost stories in modern literature.
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this entity surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (novel)
subject surface form:
Olivia Crain
this entity surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House novel by Shirley Jackson (loosely)
this entity surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (1959 novel)
this entity surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (novel)