The Dark Tower (novel)
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The Dark Tower is the final book in Stephen King’s epic dark fantasy series, concluding Roland Deschain’s quest to reach the mysterious Dark Tower that stands at the nexus of all universes.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dark Tower | 7 |
| The Dark Tower (novel) canonical | 4 |
| dark tower | 2 |
| the Dark Tower | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243160 — 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: The Dark Tower (novel) Context triple: [The Man in Black, appearsIn, The Dark Tower (novel)]
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The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower is a 2017 fantasy western film adaptation of Stephen King’s epic book series, blending horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy elements around a mysterious tower that anchors the universe.
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The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower is a 1946 radio play by poet Louis MacNeice, noted for its allegorical, dreamlike exploration of fate and heroism.
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The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands is a fantasy-horror novel by Stephen King that continues Roland Deschain’s quest toward the Dark Tower, blending Western, post-apocalyptic, and metaphysical elements.
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The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole is a fantasy novel by Stephen King that serves as an interquel in his Dark Tower saga, blending a mid-quest adventure with a nested fairy-tale-style story.
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The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla is a fantasy-horror novel by Stephen King that continues Roland Deschain’s quest by focusing on a besieged farming village and deepening the series’ blend of Western, dark fantasy, and meta-fiction.
- 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: The Dark Tower (novel) Target entity description: The Dark Tower is the final book in Stephen King’s epic dark fantasy series, concluding Roland Deschain’s quest to reach the mysterious Dark Tower that stands at the nexus of all universes.
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A.
The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower is a 2017 fantasy western film adaptation of Stephen King’s epic book series, blending horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy elements around a mysterious tower that anchors the universe.
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B.
The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower is a 1946 radio play by poet Louis MacNeice, noted for its allegorical, dreamlike exploration of fate and heroism.
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C.
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands is a fantasy-horror novel by Stephen King that continues Roland Deschain’s quest toward the Dark Tower, blending Western, post-apocalyptic, and metaphysical elements.
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D.
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole is a fantasy novel by Stephen King that serves as an interquel in his Dark Tower saga, blending a mid-quest adventure with a nested fairy-tale-style story.
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E.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla is a fantasy-horror novel by Stephen King that continues Roland Deschain’s quest by focusing on a besieged farming village and deepening the series’ blend of Western, dark fantasy, and meta-fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
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novel ⓘ |
| antagonist | The Crimson King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| awards | 2005 British Fantasy Award (Best Novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralElement | The Dark Tower (fictional structure) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concludes | Roland Deschain’s quest for the Dark Tower ⓘ |
| conclusionType | ambiguous ending ⓘ |
| containsCharacterDeath |
Eddie Dean
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Jake Chambers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Michael Whelan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresAuthorAsCharacter | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
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fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ western fiction ⓘ |
| hasMetafictionalElements | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cyclical time
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fate and free will ⓘ obsession ⓘ redemption ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-937986-52-7 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| linkedWorks |
Hearts in Atlantis
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Insomnia NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stand NERFINISHED ⓘ ’Salem’s Lot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Eddie Dean
NERFINISHED
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Jake Chambers NERFINISHED ⓘ Oy NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Deschain NERFINISHED ⓘ Susannah Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| pages | 845 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Dark Tower (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prequel | Song of Susannah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2004-09-21 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
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Scribner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| setting |
End-World
NERFINISHED
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Mid-World 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: The Dark Tower (novel) Description of subject: The Dark Tower is the final book in Stephen King’s epic dark fantasy series, concluding Roland Deschain’s quest to reach the mysterious Dark Tower that stands at the nexus of all universes.
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