Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand
E265978
Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand canonical | 5 |
| the world of Bertram | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2437051 — 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: Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand Context triple: [Charles Maturin, notableWork, Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand]
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A.
The Constant Maid
The Constant Maid is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty dialogue and exploration of love and social manners.
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B.
The Great Sebastian
The Great Sebastian is a charismatic and daring trapeze artist who serves as one of the central performers in the classic circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth."
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C.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
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D.
The Minister's Wooing
The Minister's Wooing is an 1859 historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores Calvinist theology, New England society, and women's inner lives in the early 19th century.
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E.
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists is a collection of interconnected short stories by Washington Irving that humorously depict English country life and customs in the early 19th century.
- 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: Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand Target entity description: Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
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A.
The Constant Maid
The Constant Maid is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty dialogue and exploration of love and social manners.
-
B.
The Great Sebastian
The Great Sebastian is a charismatic and daring trapeze artist who serves as one of the central performers in the classic circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth."
-
C.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
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D.
The Minister's Wooing
The Minister's Wooing is an 1859 historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores Calvinist theology, New England society, and women's inner lives in the early 19th century.
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E.
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists is a collection of interconnected short stories by Washington Irving that humorously depict English country life and customs in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic drama
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melodrama ⓘ play ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| author | Charles Maturin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| form | verse ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic
ⓘ
melodramatic tragedy ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | The Castle of St. Aldobrand ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Bertram ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| notableFor | great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| periodOfPopularity | early 19th century ⓘ |
| placeOfMajorReception | British stage ⓘ |
| setting | castle of St. Aldobrand ⓘ |
| structure | verse drama ⓘ |
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: Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand Description of subject: Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand