The Dust Witch
E472945
The Dust Witch is a sinister, blind fortune-teller and agent of dark magic who serves as one of the primary antagonists in Ray Bradbury’s novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dust Witch canonical | 1 |
| the Dust Witch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4834045 — 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 Dust Witch Context triple: [Something Wicked This Way Comes, hasCharacter, The Dust Witch]
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A.
The Sorceress
The Sorceress is the main antagonist of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, a powerful magic-wielding villain who seeks to steal dragon eggs for her own dark purposes.
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B.
The Witch's Familiar
"The Witch's Familiar" is a 2015 Doctor Who television episode featuring the Twelfth Doctor, Missy, and Clara in a confrontation with the Daleks and a dying Davros.
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C.
The Witchwood
The Witchwood is a spooky, Worgen-themed Hearthstone expansion set in the haunted forests of Gilneas, introducing new cards and mechanics focused on eerie, supernatural gameplay.
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D.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
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E.
Spellmonger
Spellmonger is a long-running epic fantasy novel series by Terry Mancour that follows the rise of a battle-weary mage in a richly detailed, war-torn world.
- 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 Dust Witch Target entity description: The Dust Witch is a sinister, blind fortune-teller and agent of dark magic who serves as one of the primary antagonists in Ray Bradbury’s novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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A.
The Sorceress
The Sorceress is the main antagonist of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, a powerful magic-wielding villain who seeks to steal dragon eggs for her own dark purposes.
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B.
The Witch's Familiar
"The Witch's Familiar" is a 2015 Doctor Who television episode featuring the Twelfth Doctor, Missy, and Clara in a confrontation with the Daleks and a dying Davros.
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C.
The Witchwood
The Witchwood is a spooky, Worgen-themed Hearthstone expansion set in the haunted forests of Gilneas, introducing new cards and mechanics focused on eerie, supernatural gameplay.
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D.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
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E.
Spellmonger
Spellmonger is a long-running epic fantasy novel series by Terry Mancour that follows the rise of a battle-weary mage in a richly detailed, war-torn world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ fortune-teller ⓘ literary character ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| ability |
casting curses
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dark magic ⓘ fortune-telling ⓘ influencing dreams ⓘ tracking victims ⓘ |
| affiliation | Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Something Wicked This Way Comes ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
autumn carnival
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fear ⓘ night ⓘ |
| basedInWork |
Green Town, Illinois (fictional)
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linked to:
fictional town of Green Town, Illinois
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Ray Bradbury ⓘ |
| employer | Mr. Dark ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Charles Halloway
ⓘ
Jim Nightshade ⓘ Will Halloway ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | novel Something Wicked This Way Comes ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
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horror ⓘ |
| hasThemeConnection |
corruption
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loss of innocence ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| killedBy | Charles Halloway ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| loyalty | Mr. Dark ⓘ |
| mediumOfPower | fear of others ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | embodiment of supernatural threat ⓘ |
| occupation | fortune-teller ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cooger & Dark's carnival freak show
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linked to:
Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show
|
| physicalCharacteristic |
blind
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covered in tattoos ⓘ pale skin ⓘ rides a hot air balloon ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| uses | hot air balloon ⓘ |
| weakness |
laughter
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love ⓘ |
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: The Dust Witch Description of subject: The Dust Witch is a sinister, blind fortune-teller and agent of dark magic who serves as one of the primary antagonists in Ray Bradbury’s novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Dust Witch