Sredni Vashtar
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Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 British short film adaptation of Saki’s macabre short story about a sickly boy who secretly worships a ferret as a vengeful deity, written and directed by Andrew Birkin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sredni Vashtar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13337765 — 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: Sredni Vashtar Context triple: [Andrew Birkin, notableWork, Sredni Vashtar]
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A.
Le Pauvre enfant pâle
Le Pauvre enfant pâle is a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, included in his collection "Poésies," known for its evocative and melancholic portrayal of a frail, suffering child.
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B.
Contes cruels
Contes cruels is a celebrated collection of fantastical and macabre short stories by French symbolist writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, noted for its dark irony and philosophical pessimism.
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C.
Romanichal
Romanichal are a subgroup of the Romani people traditionally living in Britain, known for their distinct culture, dialect, and itinerant heritage.
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D.
Die Ratten
Die Ratten is a naturalistic drama by German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann that explores social decay, class struggle, and moral conflict in early 20th-century Berlin.
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E.
The Rats in the Walls
"The Rats in the Walls" is a 1924 horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a man who uncovers a gruesome ancestral secret beneath his newly restored English estate.
- 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: Sredni Vashtar Target entity description: Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 British short film adaptation of Saki’s macabre short story about a sickly boy who secretly worships a ferret as a vengeful deity, written and directed by Andrew Birkin.
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A.
Le Pauvre enfant pâle
Le Pauvre enfant pâle is a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, included in his collection "Poésies," known for its evocative and melancholic portrayal of a frail, suffering child.
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B.
Contes cruels
Contes cruels is a celebrated collection of fantastical and macabre short stories by French symbolist writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, noted for its dark irony and philosophical pessimism.
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C.
Romanichal
Romanichal are a subgroup of the Romani people traditionally living in Britain, known for their distinct culture, dialect, and itinerant heritage.
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D.
Die Ratten
Die Ratten is a naturalistic drama by German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann that explores social decay, class struggle, and moral conflict in early 20th-century Berlin.
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E.
The Rats in the Walls
"The Rats in the Walls" is a 1924 horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a man who uncovers a gruesome ancestral secret beneath his newly restored English estate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British film
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short film ⓘ short story ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| adaptationOfWorkBy | Saki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Saki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | "Sredni Vashtar" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Andrew Birkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live action ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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horror film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| hasAnimalCharacter | ferret ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
childhood
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oppression ⓘ religion ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| hasTone | macabre ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | sickly boy who secretly worships a ferret as a vengeful deity ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionType | independent film ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| runtime | short ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Andrew Birkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Sredni Vashtar 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: Sredni Vashtar Description of subject: Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 British short film adaptation of Saki’s macabre short story about a sickly boy who secretly worships a ferret as a vengeful deity, written and directed by Andrew Birkin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.