Ben Mears

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Ben Mears is a novelist and the protagonist of Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," who returns to his childhood town only to confront a spreading vampire infestation.

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Label Occurrences
Ben Mears canonical 8

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
novelist
protagonist
ally Father Donald Callahan
Mark Petrie
Matt Burke
appearsIn Salem's Lot
surface form: 'Salem's Lot
appearsInAdaptation 1979 'Salem's Lot miniseries
Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries)
surface form: 2004 'Salem's Lot miniseries
associatedLocation Marsten House
characterType everyman hero
confronts vampire infestation
vampires
createdInCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Stephen King
fightsAgainst spread of vampirism
supernatural evil
firstAppearance Salem's Lot
surface form: 'Salem's Lot
gender male
genreOfWorkAppearedIn horror
hasHometown Salem's Lot
surface form: 'Salem's Lot

Jerusalem's Lot
hasThemeAssociated confronting past trauma
good versus evil
returning to one's hometown
languageOfWork English
literaryUniverse Stephen King multiverse
surface form: Stephen King universe
loveInterest Susan Norton
medium literature
narrativeRole hero
main viewpoint character
nationality American
notableWorkWithinFiction book about the Marsten House
occupation novelist
writer
portrayedBy David Soul
Rob Lowe
primaryAntagonistOpposed Kurt Barlow
publicationYearOfFirstAppearance 1975
returnsTo Salem's Lot
surface form: 'Salem's Lot

Jerusalem's Lot
survivorOf vampire outbreak in 'Salem's Lot
traumaticChildhoodExperienceLocation Marsten House

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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: Ben Mears
Description of subject: Ben Mears is a novelist and the protagonist of Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," who returns to his childhood town only to confront a spreading vampire infestation.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Salem's Lot mainCharacter Ben Mears
Mark Petrie allyOf Ben Mears
Susan Norton loveInterestOf Ben Mears
Susan Norton associatedWith Ben Mears
Marsten House visitedBy Ben Mears
Kurt Barlow enemyOf Ben Mears