E Block
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E Block is a cellblock within the fictional Cold Mountain Penitentiary, notably depicted as the death row section in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| E Block canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243286 — 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: E Block Context triple: [Cold Mountain Penitentiary, hasSection, E Block]
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A.
Block D
Block D is a local administrative and residential subdivision within the planned town of Kalyani in West Bengal, India.
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B.
Block 1B
Block 1B is an upgraded configuration of NASA’s Space Launch System designed to carry heavier payloads and support crewed deep-space missions beyond low Earth orbit.
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C.
Block C
Block C is an administrative subdivision within the town of Kalyani in West Bengal, India.
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D.
D-Block
D-Block is a hip-hop collective and record label founded by members of The LOX, known for its gritty street-oriented rap and strong presence in New York’s rap scene.
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E.
H-blocks
H-blocks were the distinctive H-shaped cell blocks within HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, notorious for housing paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles and for being the site of protests and hunger strikes.
- 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: E Block Target entity description: E Block is a cellblock within the fictional Cold Mountain Penitentiary, notably depicted as the death row section in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile."
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A.
Block D
Block D is a local administrative and residential subdivision within the planned town of Kalyani in West Bengal, India.
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B.
Block 1B
Block 1B is an upgraded configuration of NASA’s Space Launch System designed to carry heavier payloads and support crewed deep-space missions beyond low Earth orbit.
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C.
Block C
Block C is an administrative subdivision within the town of Kalyani in West Bengal, India.
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D.
D-Block
D-Block is a hip-hop collective and record label founded by members of The LOX, known for its gritty street-oriented rap and strong presence in New York’s rap scene.
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E.
H-blocks
H-blocks were the distinctive H-shaped cell blocks within HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, notorious for housing paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles and for being the site of protests and hunger strikes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional prison cellblock ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | The Green Mile (1999 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Green Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
capital punishment
ⓘ
compassion and cruelty ⓘ justice and injustice ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsFacility |
electric chair
ⓘ
execution room ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| executionMethod | electric chair ⓘ |
| featuredInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| featuredInWork | The Green Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmActorAssociated |
Michael Clarke Duncan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfAdaptation | Frank Darabont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | death row ⓘ |
| genreOfSourceWork |
fantasy drama
ⓘ
prison drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
narrow central corridor
ⓘ
row of cells on each side ⓘ somber atmosphere ⓘ |
| hasInmateType |
condemned prisoners
ⓘ
death row inmates ⓘ |
| hasNotableGuard |
Brutus Howell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dean Stanton NERFINISHED ⓘ Hal Moores NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Terwilliger NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Edgecombe NERFINISHED ⓘ Percy Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableInmate |
Arlen Bitterbuck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eduard Delacroix NERFINISHED ⓘ John Coffey NERFINISHED ⓘ Klaus Detterick’s supposed killer John Coffey NERFINISHED ⓘ William Wharton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfSourceWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalState | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | The Green Mile universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | described by Paul Edgecombe ⓘ |
| partOf | Cold Mountain Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| publisherOfSourceNovel | Signet Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingFor | major events in The Green Mile ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| usedFor | housing prisoners sentenced to death ⓘ |
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: E Block Description of subject: E Block is a cellblock within the fictional Cold Mountain Penitentiary, notably depicted as the death row section in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brutus "Brutal" Howell