The Altar of the Dead
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"The Altar of the Dead" is a short story by Henry James that explores memory, grief, and unrequited love through a man's obsessive ritual of honoring the dead.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Altar of the Dead canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17340649 — 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: The Altar of the Dead Context triple: [The Green Room, basedOn, The Altar of the Dead]
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The Cave of Skulls
The Cave of Skulls is the second episode of the first Doctor Who serial, continuing the debut adventure of the First Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara in prehistoric times.
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B.
The City of the Dead
The City of the Dead is a vast historic necropolis in Cairo where monumental tombs and mausoleums coexist with long-established residential communities.
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C.
La Muerte
La Muerte is a central supernatural figure in the animated film "The Book of Life," depicted as the elegant and compassionate ruler of the Land of the Remembered.
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D.
Die Kinder der Toten
Die Kinder der Toten is a sprawling, experimental horror-epic novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that confronts Austria’s repressed Nazi past through grotesque, postmodern storytelling.
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E.
Caja de Muertos
Caja de Muertos is a small, uninhabited island and nature reserve off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, known for its beaches, lighthouse, and protected wildlife.
- 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 Altar of the Dead Target entity description: "The Altar of the Dead" is a short story by Henry James that explores memory, grief, and unrequited love through a man's obsessive ritual of honoring the dead.
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A.
The Cave of Skulls
The Cave of Skulls is the second episode of the first Doctor Who serial, continuing the debut adventure of the First Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara in prehistoric times.
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B.
The City of the Dead
The City of the Dead is a vast historic necropolis in Cairo where monumental tombs and mausoleums coexist with long-established residential communities.
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C.
La Muerte
La Muerte is a central supernatural figure in the animated film "The Book of Life," depicted as the elegant and compassionate ruler of the Land of the Remembered.
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D.
Die Kinder der Toten
Die Kinder der Toten is a sprawling, experimental horror-epic novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that confronts Austria’s repressed Nazi past through grotesque, postmodern storytelling.
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E.
Caja de Muertos
Caja de Muertos is a small, uninhabited island and nature reserve off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, known for its beaches, lighthouse, and protected wildlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.