Paul Ferroll
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Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Ferroll canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4042645 — 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: Paul Ferroll Context triple: [Caroline Clive, notableWork, Paul Ferroll]
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A.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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B.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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C.
Joseph McHardy
Joseph McHardy is a musician and choral director known for his work with prominent British church and cathedral choirs.
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D.
Hugh McDevitt
Hugh McDevitt is an immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic control of the immune response and the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in disease susceptibility.
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E.
Louis Partridge
Louis Partridge is a British actor best known for his role as Viscount Tewkesbury in the Netflix mystery film "Enola Holmes."
- 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: Paul Ferroll Target entity description: Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
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A.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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B.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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C.
Joseph McHardy
Joseph McHardy is a musician and choral director known for his work with prominent British church and cathedral choirs.
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D.
Hugh McDevitt
Hugh McDevitt is an immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic control of the immune response and the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in disease susceptibility.
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E.
Louis Partridge
Louis Partridge is a British actor best known for his role as Viscount Tewkesbury in the Netflix mystery film "Enola Holmes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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psychological crime novel ⓘ |
| author | Caroline Clive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorPseudonymUsed | Caroline Clive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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psychological fiction ⓘ sensation fiction ⓘ |
| hasFemaleAuthor | true ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Victorian England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMurderMotif | true ⓘ |
| hasPsychologicalDepth | true ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitleCharacter | Paul Ferroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | later crime and psychological novels ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | early psychological crime fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Paul Ferroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | psychological portrayal of a murderer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early portrayal of a respectable man who is a murderer
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unconventional treatment of crime and respectability ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | seemingly respectable man who has committed murder ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
crime and morality
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guilt ⓘ psychological conflict ⓘ respectability ⓘ |
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: Paul Ferroll Description of subject: Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.