The Cask of Amontillado
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"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cask of Amontillado canonical | 8 |
| "The Cask of Amontillado" | 2 |
| "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) | 1 |
| Amontillado | 1 |
| The Cask of Amontillado (1846) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295535 — 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 Cask of Amontillado Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe, notableWork, The Cask of Amontillado]
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A.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
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B.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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C.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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D.
The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
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E.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
- 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 Cask of Amontillado Target entity description: "The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.
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A.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
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B.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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C.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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D.
The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
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E.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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horror story ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film adaptations
ⓘ
radio drama adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublicationYear | 1846 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Godey’s Lady’s Book ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ revenge tale ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Fortunato
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Luchesi ⓘ Montresor ⓘ |
| hasFamousLine |
“For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them.”
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“In pace requiescat!” ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
dramatic irony
ⓘ
foreshadowing ⓘ symbolism ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
ⓘ
Romanticism ⓘ
surface form:
Dark Romanticism
|
| mainCharacter |
Fortunato
ⓘ
Montresor ⓘ |
| motif |
carnival
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masquerade and costume ⓘ wine and intoxication ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter | Montresor ⓘ |
| originalMedium | magazine publication ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (later editions and collections)
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surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe’s collected tales
|
| plotSummary | Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs with the promise of tasting rare Amontillado and walls him up alive as revenge. ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
an unnamed Italian city
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catacombs beneath a palazzo ⓘ |
| studiedIn | American literature courses ⓘ |
| symbol |
Amontillado cask
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Montresor family coat of arms ⓘ trowel ⓘ |
| theme |
burial alive
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class and social status ⓘ deception ⓘ madness ⓘ pride ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | eighteenth or early nineteenth century ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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macabre ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Cask of Amontillado Description of subject: "The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe
this entity surface form:
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
this entity surface form:
Amontillado
this entity surface form:
"The Cask of Amontillado"
this entity surface form:
"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)
subject surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV series)