Stoker
E262343
Stoker is a surname most famously associated with Bram Stoker, the Irish author of the Gothic horror novel "Dracula."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stoker canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2406599 — 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: Stoker Context triple: [Bram Stoker, familyName, Stoker]
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A.
Dracula
Dracula is Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel that introduced the iconic vampire Count Dracula and helped define modern vampire fiction.
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B.
Horror of Dracula
Horror of Dracula is a 1958 British gothic horror film from Hammer Film Productions, renowned for its vivid color, atmospheric style, and Christopher Lee’s iconic portrayal of Count Dracula.
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C.
The Vampire
"The Vampire" is a film featuring actress Lydia Reed, known for her work in mid-20th-century American cinema.
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D.
Vampirina
Vampirina is an animated Disney Junior television series that follows a young vampire girl adjusting to life in the human world after moving from Transylvania to Pennsylvania.
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E.
The Terror
The Terror is the common name for the period of extreme political violence and mass executions during the French Revolution, particularly associated with the rule of the Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre.
- 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: Stoker Target entity description: Stoker is a surname most famously associated with Bram Stoker, the Irish author of the Gothic horror novel "Dracula."
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A.
Dracula
Dracula is Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel that introduced the iconic vampire Count Dracula and helped define modern vampire fiction.
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B.
Horror of Dracula
Horror of Dracula is a 1958 British gothic horror film from Hammer Film Productions, renowned for its vivid color, atmospheric style, and Christopher Lee’s iconic portrayal of Count Dracula.
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C.
The Vampire
"The Vampire" is a film featuring actress Lydia Reed, known for her work in mid-20th-century American cinema.
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D.
Vampirina
Vampirina is an animated Disney Junior television series that follows a young vampire girl adjusting to life in the human world after moving from Transylvania to Pennsylvania.
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E.
The Terror
The Terror is the common name for the period of extreme political violence and mass executions during the French Revolution, particularly associated with the rule of the Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
German-language surnames ⓘ Occupational surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| derivedFromOccupation | stoker (person who tends a furnace or boiler) ⓘ |
| familyName | Stoker self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Stocker
ⓘ
Stöcker ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Austin Stoker
ⓘ
Bram Stoker ⓘ Don Stoker ⓘ Donald Stoker ⓘ Gareth Stoker ⓘ Henry Morton Stanley Stoker ⓘ James Stoker ⓘ Jane Stoker ⓘ Joscelyn Eve Stoker ⓘ Joss Stone ⓘ
surface form:
Joss Stone (born Joscelyn Eve Stoker)
János Starker ⓘ Michael Stoker ⓘ Richard Stoker ⓘ Robert B. Stoker ⓘ Tony Stoker ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dracula ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
short story writer ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
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: Stoker Description of subject: Stoker is a surname most famously associated with Bram Stoker, the Irish author of the Gothic horror novel "Dracula."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bram Stoker