Carrie
E22626
"Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carrie canonical | 24 |
| Carrie (2013 film) | 9 |
| Carrie (1976 film) | 6 |
| Carrie (1974 novel) | 3 |
| Carrie (2002 television film) | 2 |
| Carrie (1988 musical) | 1 |
| Carrie (2002 film) | 1 |
| Carrie (2012 musical revival) | 1 |
| Carrie (2013 American supernatural horror film) | 1 |
| Carrie (film) | 1 |
| Carrie (musical) | 1 |
| Carrie (novel) | 1 |
| novel "Carrie" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T179815 — 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.
Target entity: Carrie Context triple: [Simon & Schuster, notableWorkPublished, Carrie]
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Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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C.
Pinhead Gunpowder
Pinhead Gunpowder is an American punk rock band known for its raw, melodic sound and featuring Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
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E.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Carrie Target entity description: "Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
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A.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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B.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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C.
Pinhead Gunpowder
Pinhead Gunpowder is an American punk rock band known for its raw, melodic sound and featuring Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
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E.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut novel
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horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Carrie
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surface form:
Carrie (1976 film)
Carrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Carrie (1988 musical)
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Carrie (2002 film)
Carrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Carrie (2012 musical revival)
Carrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Carrie (2013 film)
Carrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Carrie (musical)
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| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| containsEvent |
destruction of the high school prom
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town-wide catastrophe in Chamberlain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| exploresMotif |
female adolescence
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outsider ⓘ |
| featuresElement | telekinesis ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | Salem's Lot ⓘ |
| followsInCanon | none ⓘ |
| genre |
epistolary novel
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horror fiction ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist |
Chris Hargensen
ⓘ
Margaret White ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | modern horror literature ⓘ |
| hasPower | telekinesis (through Carrie White) ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
abuse
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adolescence ⓘ bullying ⓘ religious fanaticism ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | multi-perspective narrative ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Carrie White
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Chris Hargensen ⓘ Margaret White ⓘ Sue Snell ⓘ Tommy Ross ⓘ |
| marketedAs | horror ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | epistolary structure ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Stephen King's first published novel ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Stephen King bibliography ⓘ |
| protagonist | Carrie White ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| setInPlace | Chamberlain, Maine ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Carrie Description of subject: "Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
Referenced by (52)
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