You Will Hear the Locust Sing
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"You Will Hear the Locust Sing" is a horror short story by Joe Hill, featured in his collection 20th Century Ghosts, about a teenager who undergoes a grotesque transformation amid a surreal, insect-infested nightmare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| You Will Hear the Locust Sing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319377 — 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: You Will Hear the Locust Sing Context triple: [20th Century Ghosts, containsWork, You Will Hear the Locust Sing]
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A.
The Locusts Have No King
The Locusts Have No King is a satirical novel by American writer Dawn Powell that skewers New York’s literary and social circles with her characteristic wit and sharp observation.
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B.
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Till Human Voices Wake Us is a novel by Patti Davis that explores complex family dynamics, personal identity, and emotional awakening.
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C.
The Voice from the Sky
The Voice from the Sky is a 1930 American science fiction adventure film serial, notable as one of the earliest sound serials produced in Hollywood.
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D.
Murmurs of Earth
Murmurs of Earth is a book co-authored and edited by Carl Sagan that documents the creation, contents, and purpose of the Voyager Golden Record sent into space aboard the Voyager spacecraft.
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E.
The Whispering Chorus
The Whispering Chorus is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, noted for its innovative narrative structure and psychological themes.
- 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: You Will Hear the Locust Sing Target entity description: "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" is a horror short story by Joe Hill, featured in his collection 20th Century Ghosts, about a teenager who undergoes a grotesque transformation amid a surreal, insect-infested nightmare.
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A.
The Locusts Have No King
The Locusts Have No King is a satirical novel by American writer Dawn Powell that skewers New York’s literary and social circles with her characteristic wit and sharp observation.
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B.
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Till Human Voices Wake Us is a novel by Patti Davis that explores complex family dynamics, personal identity, and emotional awakening.
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C.
The Voice from the Sky
The Voice from the Sky is a 1930 American science fiction adventure film serial, notable as one of the earliest sound serials produced in Hollywood.
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D.
Murmurs of Earth
Murmurs of Earth is a book co-authored and edited by Carl Sagan that documents the creation, contents, and purpose of the Voyager Golden Record sent into space aboard the Voyager spacecraft.
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E.
The Whispering Chorus
The Whispering Chorus is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, noted for its innovative narrative structure and psychological themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Joe Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
body horror
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insects ⓘ surreal nightmare ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| collection | 20th Century Ghosts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublishedIn | 20th Century Ghosts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
ⓘ
grotesque ⓘ |
| includedInGenre | contemporary horror short stories ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | teenage boy ⓘ |
| motif |
infestation
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locusts ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| settingType | suburban environment ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workOf | Joe Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: You Will Hear the Locust Sing Description of subject: "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" is a horror short story by Joe Hill, featured in his collection 20th Century Ghosts, about a teenager who undergoes a grotesque transformation amid a surreal, insect-infested nightmare.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.