Wilis
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Wilis are vengeful female spirits of betrayed brides in the ballet "Giselle," who rise from their graves at night to force men to dance to their deaths.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wilis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4810964 — 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: Wilis Context triple: [Giselle, supernaturalElement, Wilis]
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A.
Roro
Roro is the ISO 15924 script code assigned to the undeciphered Rongorongo script of Easter Island.
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B.
Lolei
Lolei is an ancient temple in Cambodia’s Angkor region, known as one of the Roluos Group of early Khmer brick towers built during the late 9th century.
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C.
Seia
Seia is a municipality and town in central Portugal known for its proximity to the Serra da Estrela mountains and natural park.
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D.
Kawaiisu
Kawaiisu is a Native American people and their Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken in the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains of California.
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E.
Baka
Baka was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 4th Dynasty, likely a son of Pharaoh Djedefre and possibly associated with an unfinished pyramid at Zawyet El Aryan.
- 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: Wilis Target entity description: Wilis are vengeful female spirits of betrayed brides in the ballet "Giselle," who rise from their graves at night to force men to dance to their deaths.
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A.
Roro
Roro is the ISO 15924 script code assigned to the undeciphered Rongorongo script of Easter Island.
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B.
Lolei
Lolei is an ancient temple in Cambodia’s Angkor region, known as one of the Roluos Group of early Khmer brick towers built during the late 9th century.
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C.
Seia
Seia is a municipality and town in central Portugal known for its proximity to the Serra da Estrela mountains and natural park.
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D.
Kawaiisu
Kawaiisu is a Native American people and their Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken in the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains of California.
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E.
Baka
Baka was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 4th Dynasty, likely a son of Pharaoh Djedefre and possibly associated with an unfinished pyramid at Zawyet El Aryan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet characters
ⓘ
female spirits ⓘ fictional supernatural beings ⓘ vengeful spirits ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Giselle
ⓘ
linked to:
Giselle in Giselle
|
| artForm | ballet ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
betrayal in love
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forgiveness contrasted by Giselle ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork |
the ballet "Giselle"
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linked to:
ballet "Giselle"
|
| basedOn | Slavic folklore about female spirits ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | Romantic-era European ballet tradition ⓘ |
| danceStyle | romantic ballet ⓘ |
| emotion |
bitterness
ⓘ
vengeance ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Central and Eastern European legends of willis/vilas/vila ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | the world of the ballet "Giselle" ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | 1841 premiere of "Giselle" in Paris ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| groupType | corps de ballet ⓘ |
| habitat | graveyard ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of ghostly female corps de ballet ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| leader | Myrtha ⓘ |
| movementQuality |
ethereal
ⓘ
weightless ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
force men to dance to their deaths
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often depicted with veils or wreaths ⓘ rise from their graves at night ⓘ spirits of betrayed brides ⓘ vengeful toward men ⓘ wear white dresses in many productions ⓘ |
| notableScene | Act II graveyard scene in "Giselle" ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Giselle
ⓘ
linked to:
Giselle in Giselle
|
| origin | spirits of young women who died before their wedding day ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
banshees
ⓘ
ghost brides ⓘ rusalki ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | antagonistic force in Act II of "Giselle" ⓘ |
| supernaturalAbility |
compel men to dance
ⓘ
remain active until dawn ⓘ |
| symbolism |
doomed romantic love
ⓘ
the destructive power of vengeance ⓘ |
| timeOfActivity | night ⓘ |
| typicalCostumeColor | white ⓘ |
| victimType | men who wander into their domain ⓘ |
| weakness | dawn ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Wilis Description of subject: Wilis are vengeful female spirits of betrayed brides in the ballet "Giselle," who rise from their graves at night to force men to dance to their deaths.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
ballet "Giselle"