Edison mansion
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Edison mansion is the quirky, time-traveling house that serves as the central location and puzzle hub in the classic adventure game Day of the Tentacle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edison mansion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8619880 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edison mansion Context triple: [Day of the Tentacle, setting, Edison mansion]
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A.
Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum
The Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum is a historic house museum in Milan, Ohio, dedicated to preserving and interpreting the early life and inventions of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison.
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B.
Edison Memorial Tower
Edison Memorial Tower is a commemorative monument and museum in Menlo Park, New Jersey, honoring inventor Thomas Edison and his pioneering work conducted at his nearby laboratory.
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Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park
The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park is a museum and memorial dedicated to inventor Thomas Edison, located at the site of his historic Menlo Park laboratory in Edison, New Jersey.
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D.
Andrew Carnegie Mansion
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is a historic Gilded Age residence on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, originally built for industrialist Andrew Carnegie and now housing a major design museum.
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Dexter Pratt House
The Dexter Pratt House is a historic residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known as the home of the blacksmith believed to have inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.”
- 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: Edison mansion Target entity description: Edison mansion is the quirky, time-traveling house that serves as the central location and puzzle hub in the classic adventure game Day of the Tentacle.
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A.
Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum
The Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum is a historic house museum in Milan, Ohio, dedicated to preserving and interpreting the early life and inventions of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison.
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B.
Edison Memorial Tower
Edison Memorial Tower is a commemorative monument and museum in Menlo Park, New Jersey, honoring inventor Thomas Edison and his pioneering work conducted at his nearby laboratory.
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C.
Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park
The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park is a museum and memorial dedicated to inventor Thomas Edison, located at the site of his historic Menlo Park laboratory in Edison, New Jersey.
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Andrew Carnegie Mansion
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is a historic Gilded Age residence on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, originally built for industrialist Andrew Carnegie and now housing a major design museum.
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Dexter Pratt House
The Dexter Pratt House is a historic residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known as the home of the blacksmith believed to have inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional building
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location in a video game ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Day of the Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artStyleContext | cartoonish, exaggerated architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Bernard Bernoulli
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Fred Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoagie ⓘ Laverne NERFINISHED ⓘ Nurse Edna NERFINISHED ⓘ Purple Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ Weird Ed Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralLocationIn | Day of the Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsObject |
VCR and security monitor
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flagpole ⓘ frozen hamster ⓘ kumquat tree ⓘ toilets used as Chron-O-Johns ⓘ |
| continuityRole | updated version of the mansion from Maniac Mansion ⓘ |
| developedByContext | LucasArts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Day of the Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameGenreContext | point-and-click adventure ⓘ |
| gameplayRole | hub connecting three time periods ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
quirky design
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time-traveling house ⓘ |
| hasFunction | puzzle hub ⓘ |
| hasRoom |
Nurse Edna’s security room
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Weird Ed’s room ⓘ attic ⓘ basement laboratory ⓘ dining room ⓘ hallways ⓘ kitchen ⓘ lobby ⓘ roof ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriodVersion |
Edison mansion (future – dystopian tentacle rule)
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Edison mansion (past – colonial era) ⓘ Edison mansion (present) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Day of the Tentacle universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
origin point of time-travel experiment
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site of Purple Tentacle’s mutation ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Edison family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformContext |
MS-DOS
NERFINISHED
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Mac OS NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows (remastered release) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySettingOf | Day of the Tentacle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Maniac Mansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeTravelMechanicLocation |
Chron-O-Johns
NERFINISHED
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time machine interfaces ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Edison mansion Description of subject: Edison mansion is the quirky, time-traveling house that serves as the central location and puzzle hub in the classic adventure game Day of the Tentacle.
Referenced by (1)
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