Bram Stoker
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Bram Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 novel "Dracula," a foundational work of Gothic horror fiction.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bram Stoker canonical | 140 |
| Abraham Stoker | 2 |
| Abraham "Bram" Stoker | 1 |
| Bram Stoker bibliography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T383477 — 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: Bram Stoker Context triple: [Gothic literature, notableAuthor, Bram Stoker]
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A.
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was an English novelist best known as the author of the pioneering Gothic and science fiction work "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."
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B.
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and cosmic horror fiction whose creation of the Cthulhu Mythos and emphasis on existential dread profoundly shaped modern horror literature.
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C.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational Gothic novel "The Monk," which made him a central figure in early Gothic literature.
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D.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole was an 18th-century English writer, art historian, and politician best known for pioneering the Gothic novel with "The Castle of Otranto" and for his extensive correspondence.
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E.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
- 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: Bram Stoker Target entity description: Bram Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 novel "Dracula," a foundational work of Gothic horror fiction.
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A.
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was an English novelist best known as the author of the pioneering Gothic and science fiction work "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."
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B.
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and cosmic horror fiction whose creation of the Cthulhu Mythos and emphasis on existential dread profoundly shaped modern horror literature.
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C.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational Gothic novel "The Monk," which made him a central figure in early Gothic literature.
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D.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole was an 18th-century English writer, art historian, and politician best known for pioneering the Gothic novel with "The Castle of Otranto" and for his extensive correspondence.
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E.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Bram Stoker Description of subject: Bram Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 novel "Dracula," a foundational work of Gothic horror fiction.
Referenced by (144)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bram Stoker
linked to: Bram Stoker
linked to: Bram Stoker