The Rats in the Walls
E194709
"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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Rats in the Walls canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715089 — 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 Rats in the Walls Context triple: [H. P. Lovecraft, notableWork, The Rats in the Walls]
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A.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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B.
Children of the Alley
Children of the Alley is a controversial novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that allegorically retells religious and social history through the lives of successive generations in a Cairo alley.
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C.
Salomon's House
Salomon's House is the fictional scientific research institution in Francis Bacon's utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized, empirical inquiry and the advancement of knowledge.
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D.
House of Cramm
The House of Cramm is a German noble family historically associated with the aristocracy of the region that produced figures such as Armgard von Cramm.
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E.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
- 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 Rats in the Walls Target entity description: "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.
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A.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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B.
Children of the Alley
Children of the Alley is a controversial novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that allegorically retells religious and social history through the lives of successive generations in a Cairo alley.
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C.
Salomon's House
Salomon's House is the fictional scientific research institution in Francis Bacon's utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized, empirical inquiry and the advancement of knowledge.
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D.
House of Cramm
The House of Cramm is a German noble family historically associated with the aristocracy of the region that produced figures such as Armgard von Cramm.
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E.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | H. P. Lovecraft ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
ancestral guilt
ⓘ
degeneration ⓘ hereditary curse ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | public domain in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublicationDate | 1924-03 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Weird Tales magazine
ⓘ
surface form:
Weird Tales
|
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
audio drama adaptations
ⓘ
comic adaptations ⓘ radio dramatizations ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Delapore
ⓘ
Delapore’s cats ⓘ Delapore’s son ⓘ local antiquarians ⓘ |
| hasElement |
ancestral secret
ⓘ
cannibalism ⓘ rats ⓘ supernatural suggestion ⓘ underground caverns ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later horror literature ⓘ |
| hasTone |
claustrophobic
ⓘ
gothic ⓘ macabre ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | various Lovecraft story collections ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | weird fiction movement ⓘ |
| mainConflict | discovery of a horrific family secret beneath Exham Priory ⓘ |
| narrationType | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of inherited guilt
ⓘ
use of cosmic horror atmosphere ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Cthulhu Mythos-related works ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| protagonist | Delapore ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstEdition | Weird Tales magazine ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
England
ⓘ
Exham Priory ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| wordCountApproximate | 10000–12000 ⓘ |
| writtenBy | H. P. Lovecraft ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Rats in the Walls Description of subject: "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.
Referenced by (1)
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