Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character)
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Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally corrupt carnival worker-turned-fake spiritualist at the center of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel "Nightmare Alley," whose rise and fall drive the story’s dark exploration of greed and deception.
All labels observed (1)
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| Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10792329 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character) Context triple: [Stanton Carlisle, basedOn, Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character)]
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A.
Crawford Whittemore
Crawford Whittemore is a central character in the sitcom "Dads," portrayed as one of the immature adult sons struggling with the chaos caused by his live-in father.
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B.
Herman Stiles
Herman Stiles is a quirky, mild-mannered banker and friend of the main characters on the early-1990s American sitcom "Evening Shade."
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C.
Carre Otis
Carre Otis is an American model and actress who rose to fame in the late 1980s and 1990s, known for her work with major fashion brands and her role in the film "Wild Orchid."
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D.
Dean Stanton
Dean Stanton is a compassionate and soft-spoken prison guard in Stephen King’s novel *The Green Mile*, known for his humane treatment of death row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
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E.
Tom Canty
Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character) Target entity description: Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally corrupt carnival worker-turned-fake spiritualist at the center of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel "Nightmare Alley," whose rise and fall drive the story’s dark exploration of greed and deception.
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A.
Crawford Whittemore
Crawford Whittemore is a central character in the sitcom "Dads," portrayed as one of the immature adult sons struggling with the chaos caused by his live-in father.
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B.
Herman Stiles
Herman Stiles is a quirky, mild-mannered banker and friend of the main characters on the early-1990s American sitcom "Evening Shade."
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C.
Carre Otis
Carre Otis is an American model and actress who rose to fame in the late 1980s and 1990s, known for her work with major fashion brands and her role in the film "Wild Orchid."
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D.
Dean Stanton
Dean Stanton is a compassionate and soft-spoken prison guard in Stephen King’s novel *The Green Mile*, known for his humane treatment of death row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
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E.
Tom Canty
Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Nightmare Alley (1947 film)
NERFINISHED
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Nightmare Alley (2021 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Nightmare Alley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
noir fiction
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
deceptive ⓘ manipulative ⓘ opportunistic ⓘ |
| creator | William Lindsay Gresham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Nightmare Alley (1946 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally corrupt ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | explores corruption of the American dream ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
carnival worker
ⓘ
fake spiritualist ⓘ mentalist ⓘ |
| performsAs | spiritualist medium ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Bradley Cooper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tyrone Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship |
associate of Lilith Ritter
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associate of Pete Krumbein ⓘ associate of Zeena Krumbein ⓘ partner of Molly Cahill ⓘ |
| setting | carnival sideshow ⓘ |
| storyArc |
eventual downfall and ruin
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rise from lowly carnival worker to celebrated spiritualist ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
deception
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exploitation ⓘ greed ⓘ rise and fall narrative ⓘ |
| uses |
cold reading techniques
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mentalism code system ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character) Description of subject: Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally corrupt carnival worker-turned-fake spiritualist at the center of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel "Nightmare Alley," whose rise and fall drive the story’s dark exploration of greed and deception.
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