Pet Sematary
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Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pet Sematary canonical | 19 |
| Pet Sematary (2019 film) | 3 |
| novel Pet Sematary (1983) | 3 |
| Pet Sematary (novel) | 2 |
| "Pet Sematary" | 1 |
| Pet Sematary (1983 novel) | 1 |
| Pet Sematary (1983) | 1 |
| Pet Sematary (1989 film) | 1 |
| Pet Sematary (animal graveyard) | 1 |
| “Pet Sematary” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T288590 — 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: Pet Sematary Context triple: [Stephen King, notableWork, Pet Sematary]
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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.
Carrie
"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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C.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
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D.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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E.
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is a 1979 supernatural thriller novel by Stephen King about a man who awakens from a coma with psychic abilities that force him into a moral confrontation over a dangerous political figure.
- 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: Pet Sematary Target entity description: Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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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.
Carrie
"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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C.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
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D.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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E.
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is a 1979 supernatural thriller novel by Stephen King about a man who awakens from a coma with psychic abilities that force him into a moral confrontation over a dangerous political figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Pet Sematary
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pet Sematary (1989 film)
Pet Sematary self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pet Sematary (2019 film)
Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard) ⓘ
surface form:
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
|
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| containsFictionalPlace |
Micmac burial ground
ⓘ
Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Linda Fennimore ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
ancient burial ground
ⓘ
resurrection of the dead ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonisticForce | supernatural power of the burial ground ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
grieving parent
ⓘ
reanimated corpse ⓘ |
| hasConflictType |
man vs self
ⓘ
man vs supernatural ⓘ |
| hasForeshadowingDevice | warnings from Jud Crandall ⓘ |
| hasMottoOrQuote | “Sometimes dead is better.” ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | ~374 ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
occult horror
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
ⓘ
grief ⓘ resurrection ⓘ the consequences of denying death ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent horror works about cursed burial grounds ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-385-18223-5 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary horror ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ellie Creed
ⓘ
Gage Creed ⓘ Jud Crandall ⓘ Louis Creed ⓘ Rachel Creed ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of parental grief
ⓘ
graphic horror elements ⓘ |
| partOf | Stephen King bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Ludlow, Maine ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Pet Sematary Description of subject: Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (2019 film)
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (2019 film)
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (1989 film)
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (2019 film)
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (novel)
subject surface form:
Brain Drain
subject surface form:
Brain Drain
subject surface form:
Brain Drain
subject surface form:
Brain Drain
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (novel)
this entity surface form:
“Pet Sematary”
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (animal graveyard)
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (1983 novel)
this entity surface form:
novel Pet Sematary (1983)
this entity surface form:
novel Pet Sematary (1983)
this entity surface form:
Pet Sematary (1983)
this entity surface form:
novel Pet Sematary (1983)
this entity surface form:
"Pet Sematary"