Hawkins National Laboratory
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Hawkins National Laboratory is a secretive government research facility in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, central to the supernatural events in the TV series "Stranger Things."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hawkins National Laboratory canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5019000 — 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: Hawkins National Laboratory Context triple: [Hawkins, Indiana, hasFacility, Hawkins National Laboratory]
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Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell
Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell was a major British nuclear research center in Oxfordshire that played a key role in the development of the United Kingdom’s atomic energy program after World War II.
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Begbroke Science Park
Begbroke Science Park is a research and innovation campus near Oxford that hosts high-tech companies and academic laboratories, particularly in science and engineering fields.
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C.
Babraham Research Campus
Babraham Research Campus is a major life sciences research and innovation hub near Cambridge, England, focused on bioscience, biotechnology, and academic–industry collaboration.
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Clarendon Laboratory
Clarendon Laboratory is a historic physics research facility at the University of Oxford known for pioneering work in low-temperature and condensed matter physics.
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National Physical Laboratory
The National Physical Laboratory is the United Kingdom’s national measurement standards laboratory, renowned for its pioneering research in physics, engineering, and metrology.
- 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: Hawkins National Laboratory Target entity description: Hawkins National Laboratory is a secretive government research facility in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, central to the supernatural events in the TV series "Stranger Things."
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A.
Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell
Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell was a major British nuclear research center in Oxfordshire that played a key role in the development of the United Kingdom’s atomic energy program after World War II.
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B.
Begbroke Science Park
Begbroke Science Park is a research and innovation campus near Oxford that hosts high-tech companies and academic laboratories, particularly in science and engineering fields.
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C.
Babraham Research Campus
Babraham Research Campus is a major life sciences research and innovation hub near Cambridge, England, focused on bioscience, biotechnology, and academic–industry collaboration.
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D.
Clarendon Laboratory
Clarendon Laboratory is a historic physics research facility at the University of Oxford known for pioneering work in low-temperature and condensed matter physics.
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E.
National Physical Laboratory
The National Physical Laboratory is the United Kingdom’s national measurement standards laboratory, renowned for its pioneering research in physics, engineering, and metrology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional research facility
ⓘ
government laboratory ⓘ location in Stranger Things ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stranger Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Project MKUltra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the Gate ⓘ the Upside Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conductsExperimentsOn |
Soviet espionage subjects
ⓘ
children with psychic abilities ⓘ |
| conductsResearchOn |
interdimensional portals
ⓘ
psychokinesis ⓘ remote viewing ⓘ telepathy ⓘ the Upside Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Dr. Martin Brenner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredUp |
Barb Holland’s disappearance
ⓘ
Will Byers’ disappearance ⓘ |
| createdBy | the Duffer Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext | science fiction horror ⓘ |
| hasCoverStory | Department of Energy research facility ⓘ |
| hasEmployee |
Dr. Martin Brenner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
isolation tanks
ⓘ
restricted access perimeter ⓘ surveillance systems ⓘ underground research complex ⓘ |
| hasSecretProject |
MKUltra-inspired experiments
ⓘ
opening a gate to the Upside Down ⓘ |
| hasSecurityLevel | top secret ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Eleven
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kali Prasad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| investigatedBy |
Jim Hopper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Byers NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyce Byers NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterManagedBy | Dr. Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalTown | Hawkins, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Department of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
appearance of the Demogorgon in Hawkins
ⓘ
opening the Gate to the Upside Down ⓘ supernatural events in Hawkins ⓘ |
| settingFor |
escape of Eleven
ⓘ
experiments on Eleven ⓘ initial contact with the Demogorgon ⓘ investigation by Jim Hopper ⓘ |
| stateInFiction | Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInSeries | eventually shut down ⓘ |
| threatens | residents of Hawkins ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hawkins National Laboratory Description of subject: Hawkins National Laboratory is a secretive government research facility in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, central to the supernatural events in the TV series "Stranger Things."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dr. Martin Brenner
subject surface form:
Dr. Martin Brenner