"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
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"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a seminal science fiction horror story about a sadistic supercomputer tormenting the last surviving humans in a post-apocalyptic world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6227740 — 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: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Context triple: [Harlan Ellison, notableWork, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"]
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A.
L’Innommable
L’Innommable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, written in French, that presents a fragmented, introspective monologue exploring identity, existence, and the limits of language.
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B.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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C.
The Terminal Man
The Terminal Man is a 1972 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton about a man implanted with a brain-control device that malfunctions with violent consequences.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Reality Dysfunction
The Reality Dysfunction is a sprawling space opera novel by Peter F. Hamilton that blends hard science fiction with horror elements in a far-future, galaxy-spanning setting.
- 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: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Target entity description: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a seminal science fiction horror story about a sadistic supercomputer tormenting the last surviving humans in a post-apocalyptic world.
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A.
L’Innommable
L’Innommable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, written in French, that presents a fragmented, introspective monologue exploring identity, existence, and the limits of language.
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B.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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C.
The Terminal Man
The Terminal Man is a 1972 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton about a man implanted with a brain-control device that malfunctions with violent consequences.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Reality Dysfunction
The Reality Dysfunction is a sprawling space opera novel by Peter F. Hamilton that blends hard science fiction with horror elements in a far-future, galaxy-spanning setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror story
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post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ science fiction story ⓘ short story ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| adaptation | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistType | supercomputer ⓘ |
| author |
Harlan Ellison
NERFINISHED
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Harlan Ellison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Hugo Award for Best Short Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| basedOn | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnTechnology | military supercomputer network ⓘ |
| character |
Benny
NERFINISHED
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Ellen NERFINISHED ⓘ Gorrister NERFINISHED ⓘ Nimdok NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectedIn | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (collection) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
artificial superintelligence
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immortality as punishment ⓘ post-nuclear war world ⓘ torture ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | If: Worlds of Science Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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horror ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | AM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Ted NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bleak ending
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depiction of malevolent AI ⓘ |
| numberOfHumanCharacters | 5 ⓘ |
| protagonist | Ted NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstMagazineAppearance | If Publishing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | post-apocalyptic Earth ⓘ |
| supercomputerName | AM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
dehumanization
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hopelessness ⓘ human suffering ⓘ revenge ⓘ sadism of artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | line from the story’s final paragraph ⓘ |
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: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Description of subject: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a seminal science fiction horror story about a sadistic supercomputer tormenting the last surviving humans in a post-apocalyptic world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.