Peaksville, Ohio
E822279
Peaksville, Ohio is the isolated, small-town setting of the classic "It's a Good Life" episode of The Twilight Zone, where a child with godlike powers controls the terrified residents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peaksville, Ohio canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9794659 — 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: Peaksville, Ohio Context triple: [It's a Good Life, settingPlace, Peaksville, Ohio]
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A.
Richwood, Ohio
Richwood, Ohio is a small village in Union County known as the birthplace of pioneering acoustical physicist Wallace Clement Sabine.
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B.
Springdale, Ohio
Springdale, Ohio is a suburban city in southwestern Ohio that forms part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
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C.
Washingtonville, Ohio
Washingtonville, Ohio is a small village located in Columbiana County in the eastern part of the state.
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D.
Stoutsville, Ohio
Stoutsville, Ohio is a small incorporated village located in Fairfield County in the central part of the state.
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E.
Townsend, Ohio
Townsend, Ohio is an unincorporated rural community located in Huron County in northern Ohio.
- 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: Peaksville, Ohio Target entity description: Peaksville, Ohio is the isolated, small-town setting of the classic "It's a Good Life" episode of The Twilight Zone, where a child with godlike powers controls the terrified residents.
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A.
Richwood, Ohio
Richwood, Ohio is a small village in Union County known as the birthplace of pioneering acoustical physicist Wallace Clement Sabine.
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B.
Springdale, Ohio
Springdale, Ohio is a suburban city in southwestern Ohio that forms part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
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C.
Washingtonville, Ohio
Washingtonville, Ohio is a small village located in Columbiana County in the eastern part of the state.
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D.
Stoutsville, Ohio
Stoutsville, Ohio is a small incorporated village located in Fairfield County in the central part of the state.
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E.
Townsend, Ohio
Townsend, Ohio is an unincorporated rural community located in Huron County in northern Ohio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional town ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Twilight Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode | It's a Good Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cornfield
ⓘ
mind control ⓘ reality warping ⓘ telekinesis ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | part of The Twilight Zone canon ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Anthony Fremont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Jerome Bixby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
cut off from modern technology
ⓘ
isolated from the outside world ⓘ no contact with the rest of Earth ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1961-11-03 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | The Twilight Zone franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| inhabitantCondition | must think happy thoughts ⓘ |
| inspired | subsequent adaptations of "It's a Good Life" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ohio ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting of a Twilight Zone episode ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a child with godlike powers
ⓘ
iconic status in television horror ⓘ |
| notableResident | Anthony Fremont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | terrified of Anthony Fremont ⓘ |
| punishmentMethod | wished into the cornfield ⓘ |
| revisitedIn |
The Twilight Zone (1983 film) segment "It's a Good Life"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Twilight Zone (2002 series) episode "It's Still a Good Life" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOf | It's a Good Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
abuse of power
ⓘ
fear and control ⓘ omnipotence of a child ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century (implied) ⓘ |
| tone |
claustrophobic
ⓘ
oppressive ⓘ |
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: Peaksville, Ohio Description of subject: Peaksville, Ohio is the isolated, small-town setting of the classic "It's a Good Life" episode of The Twilight Zone, where a child with godlike powers controls the terrified residents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
It's a Good Life