The Devil’s Disciple (stage role)
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The Devil’s Disciple (stage role) is a prominent theatrical character from George Bernard Shaw’s play "The Devil’s Disciple," notably portrayed on stage by actor Basil Sydney.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Devil’s Disciple (stage role) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8156611 — 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 Devil’s Disciple (stage role) Context triple: [Basil Sydney, notableWork, The Devil’s Disciple (stage role)]
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A.
The Devil’s Novice
The Devil’s Novice is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury and centered on a young novice whose arrival at the abbey coincides with a sinister disappearance.
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B.
A Devil's Chaplain
A Devil's Chaplain is a 2003 collection of essays by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins that explores science, religion, and rationalism through a series of critical and reflective writings.
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C.
the Devil
The Devil is a supernatural embodiment of evil and temptation, commonly depicted in religious and literary traditions as a powerful adversary who bargains for human souls.
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D.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
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E.
The Devil’s Whore
The Devil’s Whore is a British historical drama television series set during the English Civil War, following a young woman entangled in the era’s political and religious upheavals.
- 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 Devil’s Disciple (stage role) Target entity description: The Devil’s Disciple (stage role) is a prominent theatrical character from George Bernard Shaw’s play "The Devil’s Disciple," notably portrayed on stage by actor Basil Sydney.
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A.
The Devil’s Novice
The Devil’s Novice is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury and centered on a young novice whose arrival at the abbey coincides with a sinister disappearance.
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B.
A Devil's Chaplain
A Devil's Chaplain is a 2003 collection of essays by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins that explores science, religion, and rationalism through a series of critical and reflective writings.
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C.
the Devil
The Devil is a supernatural embodiment of evil and temptation, commonly depicted in religious and literary traditions as a powerful adversary who bargains for human souls.
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D.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
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E.
The Devil’s Whore
The Devil’s Whore is a British historical drama television series set during the English Civil War, following a young woman entangled in the era’s political and religious upheavals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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stage role ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | play ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | drama ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Shavian drama ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnTextBy | George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Devil’s Disciple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacterOf | The Devil’s Disciple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| notablePortrayalPeriod | early 20th century stage ⓘ |
| notablyPortrayedBy | Basil Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfWork | The Devil’s Disciple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Basil Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | theatrical productions of The Devil’s Disciple ⓘ |
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 Devil’s Disciple (stage role) Description of subject: The Devil’s Disciple (stage role) is a prominent theatrical character from George Bernard Shaw’s play "The Devil’s Disciple," notably portrayed on stage by actor Basil Sydney.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.