Hill House
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Hill House is a sinister, isolated mansion in Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," renowned as one of fiction’s most iconic haunted houses.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hill House canonical | 13 |
| Crain family home (after Hill House) | 1 |
| Hill House (fictional mansion) | 1 |
| Hill House (temporarily) | 1 |
| Hill House, New England mansion (fictional) | 1 |
| Hill House, a secluded mansion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456654 — 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: Hill House Context triple: [The Haunting (1963 film), setting, Hill House]
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A.
Hill House
Hill House is a renowned early 20th-century residential masterpiece in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and celebrated for its innovative Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau features.
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B.
Amityville
Amityville is a village in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island’s South Shore, known for its suburban character and the infamous "Amityville Horror" house.
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C.
Murder House
Murder House is the haunted Los Angeles mansion that serves as the central setting of the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
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D.
Blaine House
Blaine House is the historic official residence of the governor of Maine, located in Augusta.
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E.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
- 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: Hill House Target entity description: Hill House is a sinister, isolated mansion in Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," renowned as one of fiction’s most iconic haunted houses.
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A.
Hill House
Hill House is a renowned early 20th-century residential masterpiece in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and celebrated for its innovative Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau features.
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B.
Amityville
Amityville is a village in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island’s South Shore, known for its suburban character and the infamous "Amityville Horror" house.
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C.
Murder House
Murder House is the haunted Los Angeles mansion that serves as the central setting of the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
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D.
Blaine House
Blaine House is the historic official residence of the governor of Maine, located in Augusta.
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E.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional haunted house
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ mansion ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Haunting of Hill House ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Dr. John Montague
ⓘ
Eleanor Vance ⓘ Hugh Crain ⓘ Luke Sanderson ⓘ Theodora ⓘ |
| builtBy | Hugh Crain ⓘ |
| centralTo | plot of The Haunting of Hill House ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| describedAs |
isolated
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not sane ⓘ sinister ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cold spots
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disturbing interior design ⓘ doors that swing shut by themselves ⓘ labyrinthine architecture ⓘ odd angles and proportions ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of fiction’s most iconic haunted houses ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalPhenomenon |
ghostly manifestations
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unexplained noises ⓘ writing on walls ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
psychological horror
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supernatural horror ⓘ unreliable perception of reality ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | haunted house fiction ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
Dr. John Montague
ⓘ
Eleanor Vance ⓘ Luke Sanderson ⓘ Theodora ⓘ |
| inspiredAdaptation |
The Haunting
ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting (1963 film)
The Haunting ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting (1999 film)
The Haunting of Hill House ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (2018 TV series)
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalRegion | Hillsdale ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Hillsdale
ⓘ
surface form:
Hillsdale village
|
| ownedBy | Hugh Crain ⓘ |
| partOf | American Gothic literature tradition ⓘ |
| settingOf | paranormal investigation ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
entrapment
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family trauma ⓘ psychological instability ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | horror ⓘ |
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: Hill House Description of subject: Hill House is a sinister, isolated mansion in Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," renowned as one of fiction’s most iconic haunted houses.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Haunting (1963 film)
subject surface form:
Eleanor Lance
subject surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House
subject surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House
this entity surface form:
Hill House (fictional mansion)
subject surface form:
Olivia Crain
this entity surface form:
Hill House (temporarily)
subject surface form:
Olivia Crain
this entity surface form:
Crain family home (after Hill House)
subject surface form:
Olivia Crain
this entity surface form:
Hill House, New England mansion (fictional)
this entity surface form:
Hill House, a secluded mansion