The House of Dr. Edwardes
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The House of Dr. Edwardes is a 1927 psychological thriller novel by Francis Beeding that blends mystery and psychiatry, later famously adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Spellbound."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The House of Dr. Edwardes canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326088 — 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 House of Dr. Edwardes Context triple: [Spellbound (1945 film), basedOn, The House of Dr. Edwardes]
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A.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is an 1882 oil painting by John Singer Sargent that portrays the four young daughters of a wealthy American family in a strikingly unconventional, psychologically complex interior scene.
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B.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a gothic horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft about a young man’s obsession with his necromancer ancestor and the dark secrets he uncovers in Providence, Rhode Island.
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C.
The Eustace Diamonds
The Eustace Diamonds is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically explores greed, social ambition, and moral ambiguity through the controversy surrounding a disputed family heirloom.
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D.
House of the Blackheads
The House of the Blackheads is a richly ornamented historic guild building in Riga, Latvia, renowned for its striking Renaissance-style façade and role as a symbol of the city’s medieval mercantile past.
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E.
The Mansion
The Mansion is a novel by William Faulkner that continues his exploration of Yoknapatawpha County through themes of social change, moral decay, and the complexities of Southern life.
- 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 House of Dr. Edwardes Target entity description: The House of Dr. Edwardes is a 1927 psychological thriller novel by Francis Beeding that blends mystery and psychiatry, later famously adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Spellbound."
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A.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is an 1882 oil painting by John Singer Sargent that portrays the four young daughters of a wealthy American family in a strikingly unconventional, psychologically complex interior scene.
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B.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a gothic horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft about a young man’s obsession with his necromancer ancestor and the dark secrets he uncovers in Providence, Rhode Island.
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C.
The Eustace Diamonds
The Eustace Diamonds is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically explores greed, social ambition, and moral ambiguity through the controversy surrounding a disputed family heirloom.
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D.
House of the Blackheads
The House of the Blackheads is a richly ornamented historic guild building in Riga, Latvia, renowned for its striking Renaissance-style façade and role as a symbol of the city’s medieval mercantile past.
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E.
The Mansion
The Mansion is a novel by William Faulkner that continues his exploration of Yoknapatawpha County through themes of social change, moral decay, and the complexities of Southern life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collective pseudonym
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film ⓘ novel ⓘ psychological thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Spellbound ⓘ |
| author | Francis Beeding ⓘ |
| basedOn | The House of Dr. Edwardes self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| fictionalGenre | crime fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasElement | romantic subplot ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | cinematic depictions of psychoanalysis ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
amnesia
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identity ⓘ mental illness ⓘ psychiatry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Golden Age detective fiction
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surface form:
Golden Age of Detective Fiction
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| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| notableAdaptation | Spellbound ⓘ |
| pseudonymousAuthor |
Hilary Saint George Saunders
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John Palmer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| setting | psychiatric hospital ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Hilary Saint George Saunders
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John Palmer ⓘ |
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 House of Dr. Edwardes Description of subject: The House of Dr. Edwardes is a 1927 psychological thriller novel by Francis Beeding that blends mystery and psychiatry, later famously adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Spellbound."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Spellbound