Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)
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Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) is a television horror adaptation of Stephen King's vampire novel, directed by Tobe Hooper and originally broadcast as a two-part event.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) canonical | 4 |
| Salem’s Lot (1979 miniseries) | 2 |
| 'Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725274 — 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)
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Target entity: Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) Context triple: [Salem's Lot, adaptedAs, Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)]
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Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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The Shining (1997 miniseries)
The Shining (1997 miniseries) is a television adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel that more closely follows the book’s plot and characterizations than Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version.
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C.
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror is a 1979 supernatural horror film about a family terrorized by malevolent forces in their new Long Island home, inspired by the allegedly true events surrounding the Amityville house.
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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.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) Target entity description: Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) is a television horror adaptation of Stephen King's vampire novel, directed by Tobe Hooper and originally broadcast as a two-part event.
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A.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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B.
The Shining (1997 miniseries)
The Shining (1997 miniseries) is a television adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel that more closely follows the book’s plot and characterizations than Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version.
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C.
It (1990 miniseries)
It (1990 miniseries) is a television horror miniseries based on Stephen King’s novel, following a group of friends who confront a shape-shifting evil entity terrorizing their town across two time periods.
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D.
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror is a 1979 supernatural horror film about a family terrorized by malevolent forces in their new Long Island home, inspired by the allegedly true events surrounding the Amityville house.
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E.
Children of the Corn
Children of the Corn is a horror short story by Stephen King about a couple who encounter a sinister cult of children in a remote Nebraska town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) Description of subject: Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) is a television horror adaptation of Stephen King's vampire novel, directed by Tobe Hooper and originally broadcast as a two-part event.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Salem’s Lot (1979 miniseries)
this entity surface form:
'Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)
this entity surface form:
Salem’s Lot (1979 miniseries)