Marsten House
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Marsten House is a sinister, abandoned mansion in Stephen King’s novel "Salem’s Lot," serving as the primary site of supernatural horror in the story.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marsten House canonical | 4 |
| the Marsten House | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725297 — 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: Marsten House Context triple: [Salem's Lot, centralLocation, Marsten House]
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A.
Fairbanks House
Fairbanks House is a historic timber-frame home in Dedham, Massachusetts, recognized as one of the oldest surviving wooden houses in North America.
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B.
Petersen House
Petersen House is the Washington, D.C. boarding house where President Abraham Lincoln was taken after being shot at Ford’s Theatre and where he ultimately died, making it a significant historic site of the American Civil War era.
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C.
Dibble House
Dibble House is a modest 19th-century Carpenter Gothic-style farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa, best known as the real-life backdrop that inspired Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic."
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D.
McLellan House
McLellan House is a historic Federal-style mansion in Portland, Maine, now incorporated into the Portland Museum of Art as part of its campus.
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E.
McCormick House
McCormick House is a historic mansion and former residence of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, now serving as a museum and centerpiece of the Cantigny Park estate in Wheaton, Illinois.
- 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: Marsten House Target entity description: Marsten House is a sinister, abandoned mansion in Stephen King’s novel "Salem’s Lot," serving as the primary site of supernatural horror in the story.
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A.
Fairbanks House
Fairbanks House is a historic timber-frame home in Dedham, Massachusetts, recognized as one of the oldest surviving wooden houses in North America.
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B.
Petersen House
Petersen House is the Washington, D.C. boarding house where President Abraham Lincoln was taken after being shot at Ford’s Theatre and where he ultimately died, making it a significant historic site of the American Civil War era.
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C.
Dibble House
Dibble House is a modest 19th-century Carpenter Gothic-style farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa, best known as the real-life backdrop that inspired Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic."
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D.
McLellan House
McLellan House is a historic Federal-style mansion in Portland, Maine, now incorporated into the Portland Museum of Art as part of its campus.
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E.
McCormick House
McCormick House is a historic mansion and former residence of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, now serving as a museum and centerpiece of the Cantigny Park estate in Wheaton, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional building
ⓘ
haunted house ⓘ location in literature ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Marsten House
ⓘ
surface form:
the Marsten House
|
| appearsIn |
Salem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem’s Lot
|
| associatedWith |
hauntings
ⓘ
murder ⓘ suicide ⓘ supernatural evil ⓘ vampirism ⓘ |
| category |
Fictional houses in literature
ⓘ
Stephen King locations ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| describedAs |
abandoned mansion
ⓘ
sinister mansion ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationIn |
Jerusalem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
Jerusalem’s Lot
|
| firstAppearance | novel Salem’s Lot ⓘ |
| formerOwner | Hubie Marsten ⓘ |
| genreContext | horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
being cursed
ⓘ
being haunted ⓘ |
| influences | atmosphere of dread in Salem’s Lot ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | traditional Gothic haunted house trope ⓘ |
| laterOwnedBy | Kurt Barlow ⓘ |
| locatedOn | a hill overlooking Jerusalem’s Lot ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central setting of Salem’s Lot
ⓘ
primary site of supernatural horror in Salem’s Lot ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Jerusalem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
Jerusalem’s Lot
|
| ownedBy | Hubie Marsten ⓘ |
| partOf | the fictional universe of Stephen King ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1975 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
2004 TV adaptation of Salem’s Lot
ⓘ
TV miniseries adaptation of Salem’s Lot ⓘ |
| siteOf |
Hubie Marsten’s crimes
ⓘ
Hubie Marsten’s suicide ⓘ |
| stateOfFictionalSetting | Maine ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
corruption of Jerusalem’s Lot
ⓘ
encroaching evil ⓘ |
| usedAs | lair of Kurt Barlow ⓘ |
| usedBy | Kurt Barlow ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Ben Mears
ⓘ
Father Callahan ⓘ Mark Petrie ⓘ Susan Norton ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Marsten House Description of subject: Marsten House is a sinister, abandoned mansion in Stephen King’s novel "Salem’s Lot," serving as the primary site of supernatural horror in the story.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Marsten House