Dr. John Montague
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Dr. John Montague is a scholarly investigator of the supernatural who organizes and leads the ill-fated paranormal study at Hill House in Shirley Jackson’s novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dr. John Montague canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316998 — 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: Dr. John Montague Context triple: [The Haunting of Hill House, mainCharacter, Dr. John Montague]
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A.
Dr. James Harvey
Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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B.
Dr. Edgar Highley
Dr. Edgar Highley is a fictional character in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "The Cradle Will Fall," involved in the book’s central medical and legal intrigue.
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C.
Dr. Thomas Wynne
Dr. Thomas Wynne was a 17th-century Welsh-born physician and close associate of William Penn who became one of the early settlers and leaders in colonial Pennsylvania.
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D.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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E.
Dr. Louis Judd
Dr. Louis Judd is a psychiatrist character in the 1942 horror film "Cat People," known for his skeptical, analytical approach to the film’s supernatural events.
- 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: Dr. John Montague Target entity description: Dr. John Montague is a scholarly investigator of the supernatural who organizes and leads the ill-fated paranormal study at Hill House in Shirley Jackson’s novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
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A.
Dr. James Harvey
Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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B.
Dr. Edgar Highley
Dr. Edgar Highley is a fictional character in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "The Cradle Will Fall," involved in the book’s central medical and legal intrigue.
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C.
Dr. Thomas Wynne
Dr. Thomas Wynne was a 17th-century Welsh-born physician and close associate of William Penn who became one of the early settlers and leaders in colonial Pennsylvania.
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D.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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E.
Dr. Louis Judd
Dr. Louis Judd is a psychiatrist character in the 1942 horror film "Cat People," known for his skeptical, analytical approach to the film’s supernatural events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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paranormal investigator ⓘ scholar ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Haunting of Hill House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | gothic horror fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | Hill House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
curious
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methodical ⓘ scholarly ⓘ |
| conductsStudyAt | Hill House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
parapsychology
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supernatural phenomena ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Haunting of Hill House (1959 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal | to obtain scientific evidence of the supernatural ⓘ |
| invitesCharacter |
Eleanor Vance
NERFINISHED
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Luke Sanderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityInWork | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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investigator of the supernatural ⓘ |
| relationshipToEleanorVance | research leader ⓘ |
| relationshipToLukeSanderson | research leader ⓘ |
| relationshipToTheodora | research leader ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
leader of a research group at Hill House
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organizer of a paranormal study at Hill House ⓘ |
| studyOutcome | ill-fated paranormal investigation ⓘ |
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: Dr. John Montague Description of subject: Dr. John Montague is a scholarly investigator of the supernatural who organizes and leads the ill-fated paranormal study at Hill House in Shirley Jackson’s novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House