Medardus
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Medardus is the tormented Capuchin monk and unreliable narrator whose descent into madness and sin drives the Gothic plot of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel "The Devil’s Elixirs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Medardus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23073026 — 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: Medardus Context triple: [The Devil’s Elixirs, mainCharacter, Medardus]
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A.
Malemort
Malemort is a commune in the Corrèze department of south-central France, situated near the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
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B.
Mortus
Mortus is the main villain of the 1995 Sega Genesis beat ’em up game Comix Zone, a demonic comic-book creator who brings his own drawings to life to battle the hero.
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C.
Melquíades
Melquíades is the enigmatic gypsy in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," whose mystical knowledge and prophetic manuscripts profoundly shape the fate of the Buendía family.
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D.
Nekron
Nekron is a powerful DC Comics supervillain and personification of death who often opposes the Green Lantern Corps and the heroes of the DC Universe.
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E.
Trompe-la-Mort
Trompe-la-Mort is the underworld alias of Vautrin, a cunning and enigmatic criminal mastermind in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
- 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: Medardus Target entity description: Medardus is the tormented Capuchin monk and unreliable narrator whose descent into madness and sin drives the Gothic plot of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel "The Devil’s Elixirs."
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A.
Malemort
Malemort is a commune in the Corrèze department of south-central France, situated near the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
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B.
Mortus
Mortus is the main villain of the 1995 Sega Genesis beat ’em up game Comix Zone, a demonic comic-book creator who brings his own drawings to life to battle the hero.
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C.
Melquíades
Melquíades is the enigmatic gypsy in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," whose mystical knowledge and prophetic manuscripts profoundly shape the fate of the Buendía family.
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D.
Nekron
Nekron is a powerful DC Comics supervillain and personification of death who often opposes the Green Lantern Corps and the heroes of the DC Universe.
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E.
Trompe-la-Mort
Trompe-la-Mort is the underworld alias of Vautrin, a cunning and enigmatic criminal mastermind in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.