Legion
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Legion is a 1983 horror novel by William Peter Blatty that serves as a philosophical and supernatural sequel to The Exorcist, following Lieutenant Kinderman as he investigates a series of bizarre murders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Legion canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10371522 — 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: Legion Context triple: [The Exorcist III, basedOn, Legion]
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Legion
Legion is the nickname of Birmingham Legion FC, a professional soccer club based in Birmingham, Alabama, competing in the USL Championship.
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Legion
"Legion" is a 2010 supernatural action-horror film in which archangel Michael defies God to protect humanity from an impending apocalypse.
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Legion
Legion is Lenovo's gaming-focused brand of high-performance laptops, desktops, and related PC hardware.
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Legion
Legion is a powerful extraterrestrial kaiju from the Gamera film series, known for its insect-like appearance and role as one of Gamera’s most formidable adversaries.
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Legion (TV series)
Legion is a visually inventive and psychologically complex Marvel-based television series that follows David Haller, a powerful mutant struggling with mental illness and reality-bending abilities.
- 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: Legion Target entity description: Legion is a 1983 horror novel by William Peter Blatty that serves as a philosophical and supernatural sequel to The Exorcist, following Lieutenant Kinderman as he investigates a series of bizarre murders.
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A.
Legion
"Legion" is a 2010 supernatural action-horror film in which archangel Michael defies God to protect humanity from an impending apocalypse.
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B.
Legion
Legion is Lenovo's gaming-focused brand of high-performance laptops, desktops, and related PC hardware.
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C.
Legion
Legion is a powerful extraterrestrial kaiju from the Gamera film series, known for its insect-like appearance and role as one of Gamera’s most formidable adversaries.
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D.
Legion
Legion is the nickname of Birmingham Legion FC, a professional soccer club based in Birmingham, Alabama, competing in the USL Championship.
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E.
Legion (TV series)
Legion is a visually inventive and psychologically complex Marvel-based television series that follows David Haller, a powerful mutant struggling with mental illness and reality-bending abilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | The Exorcist III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | William Peter Blatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsInvestigationOf | series of bizarre murders ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Paul Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | William Peter Blatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Damien Karras
NERFINISHED
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the Gemini Killer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
demonic possession
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serial murders ⓘ supernatural phenomena ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | Lieutenant William F. Kinderman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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philosophical fiction ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780671440539 ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalContent | yes ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
faith and doubt
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good versus evil ⓘ guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ problem of evil ⓘ the nature of the soul ⓘ |
| isSequelTo | The Exorcist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lieutenant William F. Kinderman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Exorcist series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Exorcist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 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: Legion Description of subject: Legion is a 1983 horror novel by William Peter Blatty that serves as a philosophical and supernatural sequel to The Exorcist, following Lieutenant Kinderman as he investigates a series of bizarre murders.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.