The Castle of St. Aldobrand
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The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic setting central to Charles Robert Maturin’s 1816 novel "Bertram," embodying the dark, melodramatic atmosphere characteristic of early 19th-century Romantic literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Castle of St. Aldobrand canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11237497 — 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 Castle of St. Aldobrand Context triple: [Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand, hasSubtitle, The Castle of St. Aldobrand]
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A.
The Castle
The Castle is the iconic red sandstone building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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B.
The Castle
The Castle is a surreal, unfinished novel by Franz Kafka that follows a land surveyor’s futile attempts to gain access to a mysterious, bureaucratic authority that governs a remote village.
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C.
The Castle
The Castle is a historic government building in Jamestown that serves as a key administrative and architectural landmark of the area.
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D.
The Castle
The Castle is the nickname for Knights Stadium, a baseball park that served as the longtime home of the Charlotte Knights minor league team.
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E.
The Castle
The Castle is a celebrated Australian comedy film about a working-class family's fight to save their beloved home from compulsory acquisition, known for its quotable dialogue and cultural impact.
- 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 Castle of St. Aldobrand Target entity description: The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic setting central to Charles Robert Maturin’s 1816 novel "Bertram," embodying the dark, melodramatic atmosphere characteristic of early 19th-century Romantic literature.
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A.
The Castle
The Castle is a surreal, unfinished novel by Franz Kafka that follows a land surveyor’s futile attempts to gain access to a mysterious, bureaucratic authority that governs a remote village.
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B.
The Castle
The Castle is the iconic red sandstone building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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C.
The Castle
The Castle is a historic government building in Jamestown that serves as a key administrative and architectural landmark of the area.
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D.
The Castle
The Castle is a celebrated Australian comedy film about a working-class family's fight to save their beloved home from compulsory acquisition, known for its quotable dialogue and cultural impact.
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E.
The Castle
The Castle is the nickname for Knights Stadium, a baseball park that served as the longtime home of the Charlotte Knights minor league team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic setting
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fictional castle ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Bertram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Charles Robert Maturin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Bertram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
doom
ⓘ
forbidden passion ⓘ guilt ⓘ revenge ⓘ sin ⓘ |
| centralToWork | Bertram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalLocation | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAtmosphere |
dark
ⓘ
melodramatic ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfWorkItAppearsIn | Charles Robert Maturin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
chapel
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cliffs ⓘ dungeons ⓘ towers ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | melodrama ⓘ |
| hasMedium | drama ⓘ |
| hasStyleCharacteristic | early 19th-century Romantic literature ⓘ |
| hasTemporalContextInWork | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| influencedBy | earlier Gothic novels ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literarySubgenre | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | primary setting of the play "Bertram" ⓘ |
| usedAsExampleOf | Gothic stage scenery in Romantic drama ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1816 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Castle of St. Aldobrand Description of subject: The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic setting central to Charles Robert Maturin’s 1816 novel "Bertram," embodying the dark, melodramatic atmosphere characteristic of early 19th-century Romantic literature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.