The True Knot
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The True Knot is a nomadic cult of quasi-immortal psychic vampires in Stephen King’s novel "Doctor Sleep" who feed on the life essence of children with the shining.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| True Knot | 4 |
| The True Knot canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725315 — 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 True Knot Context triple: [Doctor Sleep, mainCharacter, The True Knot]
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A.
The Gift
The Gift is a 2000 supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, centered on a Southern clairvoyant whose psychic visions entangle her in a murder investigation.
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B.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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C.
The Pact
The Pact is a 2012 supernatural horror film that follows a woman uncovering dark secrets in her childhood home after her sister mysteriously disappears.
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D.
The Missing
The Missing is a 2003 Western thriller film directed by Ron Howard, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett, about a frontier woman who teams up with her estranged father to rescue her kidnapped daughter.
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E.
The Hunt
The Hunt is a BBC nature documentary series that explores the dramatic strategies predators and prey use to survive in the wild.
- 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 True Knot Target entity description: The True Knot is a nomadic cult of quasi-immortal psychic vampires in Stephen King’s novel "Doctor Sleep" who feed on the life essence of children with the shining.
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A.
The Gift
The Gift is a 2000 supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, centered on a Southern clairvoyant whose psychic visions entangle her in a murder investigation.
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B.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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C.
The Pact
The Pact is a 2012 supernatural horror film that follows a woman uncovering dark secrets in her childhood home after her sister mysteriously disappears.
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D.
The Missing
The Missing is a 2003 Western thriller film directed by Ron Howard, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett, about a frontier woman who teams up with her estranged father to rescue her kidnapped daughter.
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E.
The Hunt
The Hunt is a BBC nature documentary series that explores the dramatic strategies predators and prey use to survive in the wild.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist group
ⓘ
fictional cult ⓘ fictional organization ⓘ psychic vampire group ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Sleep
ⓘ
Doctor Sleep ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Sleep (2013 novel)
Doctor Sleep ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Sleep (2019 film)
|
| baseOfOperations |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverIdentity | retirees in RVs ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Abra Stone
ⓘ
Danny Torrance ⓘ
surface form:
Dan Torrance
people with the shining ⓘ |
| feedsOn |
children with the shining
ⓘ
steam ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Doctor Sleep
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Sleep (2013 novel)
|
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| goal | to obtain steam for longevity ⓘ |
| hasAbility | psychic vampirism ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
nomadic
ⓘ
parasitic ⓘ quasi-immortal ⓘ sadistic ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| hasLeader | Rose the Hat ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Apron Annie
ⓘ
Barry the Chink ⓘ Crow Daddy ⓘ Diesel Doug ⓘ Grampa Flick ⓘ Rose the Hat ⓘ Screaming Mimi ⓘ Silent Sarey ⓘ Snakebite Andi ⓘ |
| medium |
film adaptation
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| motive |
power
ⓘ
survival ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | feeding on psychic life essence ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Shining
ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining (1977 novel)
The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ |
| speciesType | quasi-immortal human-like beings ⓘ |
| travelsBy |
RVs
ⓘ
recreational vehicles ⓘ |
| universe |
Stephen King multiverse
ⓘ
surface form:
Stephen King universe
The Shining franchise ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining / Doctor Sleep continuity
|
| vulnerableTo |
disease
ⓘ
measles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The True Knot Description of subject: The True Knot is a nomadic cult of quasi-immortal psychic vampires in Stephen King’s novel "Doctor Sleep" who feed on the life essence of children with the shining.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
True Knot
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True Knot
this entity surface form:
True Knot
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True Knot