Greg Stillson
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Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greg Stillson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725358 — 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: Greg Stillson Context triple: [The Dead Zone, hasCharacter, Greg Stillson]
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
- 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: Greg Stillson Target entity description: Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ politician ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| alignmentInStory | evil ⓘ |
| antagonistOf | Johnny Smith ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Dead Zone (1983 film)
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surface form:
The Dead Zone
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| associatedWithTheme |
abuse of political power
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apocalyptic future ⓘ charismatic demagoguery ⓘ fascism ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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manipulative ⓘ populist ⓘ power-hungry ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| conflictType | political ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Stephen King ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Dead Zone
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surface form:
novel "The Dead Zone"
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| foreseenConsequence |
global catastrophe
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nuclear war ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
horror fiction
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| goal | attain high political office ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | alive during events of "The Dead Zone" ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse |
Stephen King multiverse
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surface form:
Stephen King universe
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| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for protagonist’s moral dilemma
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represents dangerous political extremism ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | future U.S. president in Johnny Smith’s visions ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
The Dead Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
"The Dead Zone" (1979 novel)
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| roleInWork | primary antagonist in "The Dead Zone" ⓘ |
| threatLevelInStory | existential ⓘ |
| uses | populist rhetoric ⓘ |
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: Greg Stillson Description of subject: Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.