William Seabrook
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William Seabrook was an American journalist and travel writer best known for his sensational accounts of voodoo and the occult, which helped popularize zombie lore in Western culture.
All labels observed (1)
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| William Seabrook canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20396837 — 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: William Seabrook Context triple: [White Zombie, basedOnAuthor, William Seabrook]
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A.
J. S. Redfield
J. S. Redfield was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing significant literary and political works, including writings by Walt Whitman.
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B.
A. E. Southon
A. E. Southon was an author known for writing the religious work "On Eagle’s Wings."
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C.
John Vernon Lord
John Vernon Lord is a British illustrator, author, and educator renowned for his intricate, imaginative artwork in children’s books and literary classics.
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D.
Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli was an Italian-American Abstract Expressionist painter and collage artist associated with the New York School.
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E.
John Cairncross
John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
- 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: William Seabrook Target entity description: William Seabrook was an American journalist and travel writer best known for his sensational accounts of voodoo and the occult, which helped popularize zombie lore in Western culture.
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A.
J. S. Redfield
J. S. Redfield was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing significant literary and political works, including writings by Walt Whitman.
-
B.
A. E. Southon
A. E. Southon was an author known for writing the religious work "On Eagle’s Wings."
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C.
John Vernon Lord
John Vernon Lord is a British illustrator, author, and educator renowned for his intricate, imaginative artwork in children’s books and literary classics.
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D.
Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli was an Italian-American Abstract Expressionist painter and collage artist associated with the New York School.
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E.
John Cairncross
John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.