Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger
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Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
All labels observed (1)
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| Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485665 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger Context triple: [A Nightmare on Elm Street, characterRole, Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger]
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A.
Sidney Prescott
Sidney Prescott is the resilient and resourceful final girl of the Scream horror film series, repeatedly targeted by the Ghostface killers.
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B.
Carrie White
Carrie White is the telekinetic, tormented teenage girl at the center of Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," whose abuse and humiliation lead to a catastrophic act of revenge.
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C.
Tanee McCall
Tanee McCall is an American actress and professional dancer known for her roles in film and television, including action and dance-focused projects.
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D.
Veronica Sawyer in Heathers
Veronica Sawyer in *Heathers* is the intelligent, sardonic high school outsider who becomes entangled in a darkly comic spiral of murder and social upheaval alongside the nihilistic J.D.
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E.
Kelly Smith
Kelly Smith is a former English footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of women’s football, known for her prolific goal-scoring and creative attacking play.
- 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: Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger Target entity description: Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
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A.
Sidney Prescott
Sidney Prescott is the resilient and resourceful final girl of the Scream horror film series, repeatedly targeted by the Ghostface killers.
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B.
Carrie White
Carrie White is the telekinetic, tormented teenage girl at the center of Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," whose abuse and humiliation lead to a catastrophic act of revenge.
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C.
Tanee McCall
Tanee McCall is an American actress and professional dancer known for her roles in film and television, including action and dance-focused projects.
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D.
Veronica Sawyer in Heathers
Veronica Sawyer in *Heathers* is the intelligent, sardonic high school outsider who becomes entangled in a darkly comic spiral of murder and social upheaval alongside the nihilistic J.D.
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E.
Kelly Smith
Kelly Smith is a former English footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of women’s football, known for her prolific goal-scoring and creative attacking play.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ final girl ⓘ |
| age | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Nightmare on Elm Street
NERFINISHED
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Craven's New Nightmare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Elm Street children NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battles | Freddy Krueger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathStatusInFranchise | dies in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ⓘ |
| familyName | Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmSeriesDebut | A Nightmare on Elm Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| franchise | A Nightmare on Elm Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Nancy Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Nancy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasEnemy | Freddy Krueger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFrom | Springwood, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | fighting Freddy Krueger in her dreams ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
final girl archetype
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protagonist ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
courageous
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intelligent ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| notableScene | setting booby traps for Freddy Krueger ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Nightmare on Elm Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Heather Langenkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySetting |
Elm Street
NERFINISHED
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dream world ⓘ |
| relationship |
daughter of Marge Thompson
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girlfriend of Glen Lantz ⓘ |
| sleepDisorderContext | nightmares ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| strategy | bringing Freddy Krueger out of the dream world ⓘ |
| targetedBy | Freddy Krueger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
overcoming fear
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survival ⓘ |
| threatType | supernatural killer ⓘ |
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: Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger Description of subject: Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
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characterRole
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Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger
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