The Captive
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"The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Captive canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1118760 — 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 Captive Context triple: [Matthew Gregory Lewis, wrote, The Captive]
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A.
The Outcast
The Outcast is a British television drama adaptation of Sadie Jones's novel, exploring themes of grief, alienation, and post-war family dysfunction.
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B.
The Pact
The Pact is a 2012 supernatural horror film that follows a woman uncovering dark secrets in her childhood home after her sister mysteriously disappears.
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C.
The Runaway
*The Runaway* is a memoir by British wood engraver Gwen Raverat that vividly recounts her eccentric Victorian childhood in the Darwin family.
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D.
The Runaway
"The Runaway" is a famous 1958 painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell depicting a young boy and a kindly policeman seated at a diner counter, capturing a nostalgic, narrative moment of small-town American life.
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E.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
- 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 Captive Target entity description: "The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
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A.
The Outcast
The Outcast is a British television drama adaptation of Sadie Jones's novel, exploring themes of grief, alienation, and post-war family dysfunction.
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B.
The Pact
The Pact is a 2012 supernatural horror film that follows a woman uncovering dark secrets in her childhood home after her sister mysteriously disappears.
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C.
The Runaway
*The Runaway* is a memoir by British wood engraver Gwen Raverat that vividly recounts her eccentric Victorian childhood in the Darwin family.
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D.
The Runaway
"The Runaway" is a famous 1958 painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell depicting a young boy and a kindly policeman seated at a diner counter, capturing a nostalgic, narrative moment of small-town American life.
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E.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction
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Gothic novel ⓘ Gothic work ⓘ dramatist ⓘ literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| author |
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | English ⓘ |
| hasStyle | sensational horror ⓘ |
| isLesserKnownThan | The Monk ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Gothic literature ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Captive
self-linksurface differs
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The Monk ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| sharesAuthorWith | The Monk ⓘ |
| sharesGenreWith | The Monk ⓘ |
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: The Captive Description of subject: "The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Matthew Gregory Lewis