Hannibal
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Hannibal is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris that continues the story of FBI agent Clarice Starling and the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hannibal canonical | 50 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1181122 — 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: Hannibal Context triple: [Clarice Starling, notableWork, Hannibal]
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A.
Hannibal
Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
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B.
Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
Hannibal was a renowned Carthaginian military commander of the Second Punic War, best known for leading his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic.
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C.
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus was a prominent Roman general and statesman best known for defeating Hannibal in the Second Punic War and securing Rome’s dominance in the western Mediterranean.
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D.
Hamilcar Barca
Hamilcar Barca was a prominent Carthaginian general and statesman who led Carthage in the First Punic War and expanded its power in Iberia, laying the foundations for his son Hannibal’s later campaigns against Rome.
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E.
Marco
Marco is a central character in Arthur Miller’s play "A View from the Bridge," depicted as a hardworking Italian immigrant whose fierce sense of family loyalty and justice drives much of the drama’s conflict.
- 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: Hannibal Target entity description: Hannibal is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris that continues the story of FBI agent Clarice Starling and the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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A.
Hannibal
Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
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B.
Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
Hannibal was a renowned Carthaginian military commander of the Second Punic War, best known for leading his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic.
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C.
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus was a prominent Roman general and statesman best known for defeating Hannibal in the Second Punic War and securing Rome’s dominance in the western Mediterranean.
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D.
Hamilcar Barca
Hamilcar Barca was a prominent Carthaginian general and statesman who led Carthage in the First Punic War and expanded its power in Iberia, laying the foundations for his son Hannibal’s later campaigns against Rome.
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E.
Marco
Marco is a central character in Arthur Miller’s play "A View from the Bridge," depicted as a hardworking Italian immigrant whose fierce sense of family loyalty and justice drives much of the drama’s conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Hannibal Description of subject: Hannibal is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris that continues the story of FBI agent Clarice Starling and the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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