the shining (psychic ability)
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The shining (psychic ability) is a telepathic and clairvoyant power in Stephen King’s universe that allows certain characters to communicate mentally, perceive spirits, and foresee events.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Astral Traveling | 1 |
| the Shining (psychic ability) | 1 |
| the shining (psychic ability) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725342 — 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 shining (psychic ability) Context triple: [Doctor Sleep, hasMotif, the shining (psychic ability)]
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A.
Illumination
Illumination is an American animation studio best known for creating the Despicable Me franchise and other popular family-oriented animated films.
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B.
Apparition
Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
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C.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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D.
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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E.
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant is a 1935 British drama film starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray, centered on a music-hall mentalist whose apparent psychic powers begin to manifest for real with tragic consequences.
- 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 shining (psychic ability) Target entity description: The shining (psychic ability) is a telepathic and clairvoyant power in Stephen King’s universe that allows certain characters to communicate mentally, perceive spirits, and foresee events.
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A.
Illumination
Illumination is an American animation studio best known for creating the Despicable Me franchise and other popular family-oriented animated films.
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B.
Apparition
Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
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C.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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D.
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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E.
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant is a 1935 British drama film starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray, centered on a music-hall mentalist whose apparent psychic powers begin to manifest for real with tragic consequences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clairvoyance
ⓘ
fictional psychic ability ⓘ telepathy ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Sleep
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Sleep (2019 film)
Doctor Sleep ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Sleep (novel)
Stephen King multiverse ⓘ The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ The Shining (1997 miniseries) ⓘ The Shining ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining (novel)
|
| canBeDetectedBy | other people with the shining ⓘ |
| canInteractWith |
ghosts
ⓘ
residual psychic energy ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| effectOnUser |
psychological strain
ⓘ
vulnerability to supernatural entities ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Shining
ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining (1977 novel)
|
| genre | horror fiction element ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
mental communication
ⓘ
perception of spirits ⓘ precognition ⓘ projecting thoughts ⓘ psychic empathy ⓘ reading emotional impressions ⓘ receiving thoughts ⓘ sensing future events ⓘ sensing past events ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central theme in Doctor Sleep
ⓘ
driving force of plot in The Shining ⓘ |
| notableUser |
Abra Stone
ⓘ
Danny Torrance ⓘ Dick Hallorann ⓘ |
| powerLevelVariesBy | individual ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
psychic powers in fiction
ⓘ
the touch (Stephen King) ⓘ |
| settingAssociation |
Overlook Hotel site
ⓘ
surface form:
Overlook Hotel
|
| strongestKnownUser |
Abra Stone
ⓘ
Danny Torrance ⓘ |
| universe |
Stephen King multiverse
ⓘ
Stephen King multiverse ⓘ
surface form:
Stephen King universe
|
| usedByCharacter |
Abra Stone
ⓘ
Danny Torrance ⓘ Dick Hallorann ⓘ Hallorann family members ⓘ members of the True Knot ⓘ |
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 shining (psychic ability) Description of subject: The shining (psychic ability) is a telepathic and clairvoyant power in Stephen King’s universe that allows certain characters to communicate mentally, perceive spirits, and foresee events.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Shining (psychic ability)
this entity surface form:
Astral Traveling