Janet Hodgson
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Janet Hodgson is a central figure in the real-life Enfield poltergeist case, whose experiences as a young girl in a reportedly haunted London council house inspired the events depicted in The Conjuring 2.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janet Hodgson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8395635 — 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: Janet Hodgson Context triple: [The Conjuring 2, character, Janet Hodgson]
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A.
Janet Henry
Janet Henry is a central female character in the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," entangled in a web of political corruption, romance, and murder.
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B.
Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson is a British media executive and regulator known for senior roles at the BBC and as chair of Ofcom.
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C.
Janet Sanderson
Janet Sanderson was the wife of British geologist Charles Lapworth, noted mainly in historical records for her marriage to him.
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D.
Joanne Horton
Joanne Horton was the wife of H. R. Haldeman, a prominent aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
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E.
Peggy Hodgson
Peggy Hodgson is a character based on the real-life mother involved in the Enfield poltergeist case, depicted as the distressed matriarch of a haunted family in the horror film "The Conjuring 2."
- 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: Janet Hodgson Target entity description: Janet Hodgson is a central figure in the real-life Enfield poltergeist case, whose experiences as a young girl in a reportedly haunted London council house inspired the events depicted in The Conjuring 2.
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A.
Janet Henry
Janet Henry is a central female character in the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," entangled in a web of political corruption, romance, and murder.
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B.
Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson is a British media executive and regulator known for senior roles at the BBC and as chair of Ofcom.
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C.
Janet Sanderson
Janet Sanderson was the wife of British geologist Charles Lapworth, noted mainly in historical records for her marriage to him.
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D.
Joanne Horton
Joanne Horton was the wife of H. R. Haldeman, a prominent aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
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E.
Peggy Hodgson
Peggy Hodgson is a character based on the real-life mother involved in the Enfield poltergeist case, depicted as the distressed matriarch of a haunted family in the horror film "The Conjuring 2."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alleged poltergeist case witness
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person ⓘ |
| ageDuringEnfieldCase | young girl ⓘ |
| allegedExperience |
disembodied voices
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levitation ⓘ objects moving on their own ⓘ poltergeist activity ⓘ unexplained noises ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Guy Lyon Playfair
NERFINISHED
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Hodgson family NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Grosse NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Hodgson NERFINISHED ⓘ Society for Psychical Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
influence on modern horror cinema
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inspiration for dramatizations of the Enfield haunting ⓘ |
| eventParticipantIn |
Enfield haunting
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Enfield poltergeist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodgson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalDepictionOf | Janet Hodgson character in The Conjuring 2 ⓘ |
| fieldOfNotability | paranormal phenomena ⓘ |
| givenName | Janet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMediaAppearanceAsSelf | interviews about the Enfield poltergeist ⓘ |
| hasRole |
alleged victim of poltergeist activity
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central witness in the Enfield poltergeist case ⓘ |
| inspired | elements of the film The Conjuring 2 ⓘ |
| livedIn | council house in Enfield, London ⓘ |
| name | Janet Hodgson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEventLocation | Enfield, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Enfield poltergeist case NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfResidenceDuringEvent | 284 Green Street, Enfield ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Conjuring 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Enfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| subjectOf |
articles in paranormal research literature
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books about the Enfield poltergeist ⓘ documentaries about the Enfield haunting ⓘ media coverage about the Enfield poltergeist ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfNotability | late 1970s ⓘ |
| topicOfDebate | authenticity of the Enfield poltergeist case ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Janet Hodgson Description of subject: Janet Hodgson is a central figure in the real-life Enfield poltergeist case, whose experiences as a young girl in a reportedly haunted London council house inspired the events depicted in The Conjuring 2.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.