The Outsider
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The Outsider is a horror-crime novel by Stephen King that follows the investigation of a seemingly impossible murder implicating a beloved local teacher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Outsider canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5292584 — 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: The Outsider Context triple: [Stephen King bibliography, containsWork, The Outsider]
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A.
The Outsider
The Outsider is a mysterious, god-like figure in the Dishonored series who grants supernatural powers to selected individuals and observes the consequences of their actions.
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B.
The Outsider
"The Outsider" is a classic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft that follows a lonely, isolated narrator’s grim discovery of his own monstrous nature.
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C.
The Outsider
The Outsider is a 1953 novel by Richard Wright that explores existential alienation, racial tension, and moral crisis through the story of a disillusioned Black intellectual in urban America.
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D.
The Outsider (1959 book)
The Outsider (1959 book) is a non-fiction work by Colin Wilson that explores the psychology and philosophy of alienated individuals in modern society.
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E.
NOS4A2
NOS4A2 is a horror novel by Joe Hill that follows a woman with a supernatural gift as she confronts a child-abducting immortal who feeds on souls in a twisted Christmas-themed realm.
- 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: The Outsider Target entity description: The Outsider is a horror-crime novel by Stephen King that follows the investigation of a seemingly impossible murder implicating a beloved local teacher.
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A.
The Outsider
"The Outsider" is a classic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft that follows a lonely, isolated narrator’s grim discovery of his own monstrous nature.
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B.
The Outsider
The Outsider is a mysterious, god-like figure in the Dishonored series who grants supernatural powers to selected individuals and observes the consequences of their actions.
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C.
The Outsider
The Outsider is a 1953 novel by Richard Wright that explores existential alienation, racial tension, and moral crisis through the story of a disillusioned Black intellectual in urban America.
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D.
The Outsider (1959 book)
The Outsider (1959 book) is a non-fiction work by Colin Wilson that explores the psychology and philosophy of alienated individuals in modern society.
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E.
NOS4A2
NOS4A2 is a horror novel by Joe Hill that follows a woman with a supernatural gift as she confronts a child-abducting immortal who feeds on souls in a twisted Christmas-themed realm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| accusedCharacter | Terry Maitland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationNetwork | HBO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | The Outsider (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralConflict | investigation of a seemingly impossible murder ⓘ |
| containsElement | shape-shifting entity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Will Staehle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Holly Gibney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresInvestigationBy |
Holly Gibney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ralph Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasSequelConnection | If It Bleeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
grief
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identity ⓘ mob mentality ⓘ presumption of innocence ⓘ supernatural evil ⓘ |
| isbn | 9781501180989 ⓘ |
| languageVariant | American English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Holly Gibney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Howie Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Maitland NERFINISHED ⓘ Yune Sablo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | blending police procedural with supernatural horror ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | 560 ⓘ |
| placeInBibliography | late-career Stephen King novel ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2018-05-22 ⓘ |
| publisher | Scribner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Flint City, Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| sharesUniverseWith |
End of Watch
NERFINISHED
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Finders Keepers NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Mercedes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: The Outsider Description of subject: The Outsider is a horror-crime novel by Stephen King that follows the investigation of a seemingly impossible murder implicating a beloved local teacher.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.