My Cousin Rachel (novel)
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My Cousin Rachel is a 1951 gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier that blends mystery and psychological suspense in a story of obsession, inheritance, and ambiguous romance set between England and Italy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Cousin Rachel (novel) canonical | 2 |
| My Cousin Rachel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10273556 — 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: My Cousin Rachel (novel) Context triple: [My Cousin Rachel (1952 film), basedOn, My Cousin Rachel (novel)]
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A.
My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel is a 1952 gothic romantic drama film, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, in which Olivia de Havilland plays a mysterious widow suspected of murder and manipulation.
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B.
My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel is a 2017 romantic drama film based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel, starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin in a story of suspicion, inheritance, and ambiguous love.
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C.
The Key to Rebecca
The Key to Rebecca is a World War II espionage thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows a German spy in Cairo using a code based on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to aid Rommel’s North African campaign.
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D.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a character from the horror film "The Descent," one of the women who join a dangerous caving expedition that turns terrifying underground.
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E.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
- 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: My Cousin Rachel (novel) Target entity description: My Cousin Rachel is a 1951 gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier that blends mystery and psychological suspense in a story of obsession, inheritance, and ambiguous romance set between England and Italy.
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A.
My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel is a 1952 gothic romantic drama film, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, in which Olivia de Havilland plays a mysterious widow suspected of murder and manipulation.
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B.
My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel is a 2017 romantic drama film based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel, starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin in a story of suspicion, inheritance, and ambiguous love.
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C.
The Key to Rebecca
The Key to Rebecca is a World War II espionage thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows a German spy in Cairo using a code based on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to aid Rommel’s North African campaign.
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D.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a character from the horror film "The Descent," one of the women who join a dangerous caving expedition that turns terrifying underground.
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E.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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psychological novel ⓘ |
| adaptedTo | stage play ⓘ |
| author | Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement |
ambiguous ending
ⓘ
country estate setting ⓘ letters as plot device ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationYear |
1952
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2017 ⓘ |
| genre |
gothic fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ psychological suspense ⓘ romantic fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
My Cousin Rachel (1952 film)
NERFINISHED
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My Cousin Rachel (2017 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Ambrose Ashley
NERFINISHED
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Louise NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Kendall NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Ashley NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotiveElement |
financial suspicion
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inheritance dispute ⓘ romantic jealousy ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | popular fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Philip Ashley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
ambiguity of guilt
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ambiguous romance ⓘ inheritance ⓘ obsession ⓘ suspicion ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Philip Ashley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguous characterization of Rachel
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blend of romance and suspense ⓘ unresolved moral questions ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeInAuthorOeuvre | later work of Daphne du Maurier ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| publisher | Gollancz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
England
NERFINISHED
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Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| similarWorkByAuthor |
Jamaica Inn
NERFINISHED
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Rebecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | linear narrative ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 19th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Rachel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: My Cousin Rachel (novel) Description of subject: My Cousin Rachel is a 1951 gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier that blends mystery and psychological suspense in a story of obsession, inheritance, and ambiguous romance set between England and Italy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
My Cousin Rachel (1952 film)
subject surface form:
My Cousin Rachel (2017 film)
this entity surface form:
My Cousin Rachel