Outer Dark
E309667
Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Outer Dark canonical | 7 |
| The Outer Dark | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902792 — 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: Outer Dark Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Outer Dark]
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A.
The Colour Out of Space
The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
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B.
The Ritual
The Ritual is a British horror film, based on Adam Nevill’s novel, about a group of friends who encounter a sinister presence while hiking in a remote Scandinavian forest.
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C.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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D.
the Pale Man
The Pale Man is a terrifying, child-eating monster from the dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," known for his sagging skin and eyes embedded in his hands.
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E.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
- 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: Outer Dark Target entity description: Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
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A.
The Colour Out of Space
The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
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B.
The Ritual
The Ritual is a British horror film, based on Adam Nevill’s novel, about a group of friends who encounter a sinister presence while hiking in a remote Scandinavian forest.
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C.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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D.
the Pale Man
The Pale Man is a terrifying, child-eating monster from the dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," known for his sagging skin and eyes embedded in his hands.
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E.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
alienation
ⓘ
existential despair ⓘ guilt ⓘ moral decay ⓘ religious imagery ⓘ retribution ⓘ sin ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| containsBiblicalAllusions | true ⓘ |
| containsViolence | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | noted for its bleakness and moral intensity ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
cosmic indifference
ⓘ
damnation ⓘ fate ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| followedBy | Child of God ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
Southern Gothic ⓘ dark fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonistGroup | mysterious trio of men ⓘ |
| hasIncestTheme | true ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Culla Holme
ⓘ
Rinthy Holme ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Southern literature ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| motif |
blindness
ⓘ
darkness ⓘ journey ⓘ pursuit ⓘ the wilderness ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
bleak
ⓘ
haunting ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorEarlyWork | true ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman and her brother wander a nightmarish rural landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child. ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Orchard Keeper ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| setting | rural American South ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century American South ⓘ |
| style |
biblical cadences
ⓘ
minimal punctuation ⓘ sparse prose ⓘ |
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: Outer Dark Description of subject: Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.