Sheridan Le Fanu
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Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for his influential Gothic and ghost stories, including the vampire novella "Carmilla."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheridan Le Fanu canonical | 9 |
| Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu | 2 |
| Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T383479 — 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: Sheridan Le Fanu Context triple: [Gothic literature, notableAuthor, Sheridan Le Fanu]
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A.
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 novel "Dracula," a foundational work of Gothic horror fiction.
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B.
Charles Maturin
Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
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C.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational Gothic novel "The Monk," which made him a central figure in early Gothic literature.
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D.
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe was a pioneering 18th-century English novelist renowned for shaping the Gothic genre with her atmospheric, suspenseful tales and psychologically rich heroines.
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E.
Anna Seward
Anna Seward was an 18th-century English poet and letter-writer, often called the "Swan of Lichfield," known for her literary salons, Romantic verse, and wide correspondence with leading intellectuals of her time.
- 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: Sheridan Le Fanu Target entity description: Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for his influential Gothic and ghost stories, including the vampire novella "Carmilla."
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A.
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 novel "Dracula," a foundational work of Gothic horror fiction.
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B.
Charles Maturin
Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
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C.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational Gothic novel "The Monk," which made him a central figure in early Gothic literature.
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D.
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe was a pioneering 18th-century English novelist renowned for shaping the Gothic genre with her atmospheric, suspenseful tales and psychologically rich heroines.
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E.
Anna Seward
Anna Seward was an 18th-century English poet and letter-writer, often called the "Swan of Lichfield," known for her literary salons, Romantic verse, and wide correspondence with leading intellectuals of her time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sheridan Le Fanu Description of subject: Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for his influential Gothic and ghost stories, including the vampire novella "Carmilla."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
this entity surface form:
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
subject surface form:
Sheridan Le Fanu
this entity surface form:
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu