Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot
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Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot is a short story by Neil Gaiman that appears in his collection Fragile Things, blending dark fantasy and occult imagery through the conceit of a mysterious tarot deck.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875570 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot Context triple: [Fragile Things, hasStory, Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot]
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A.
Thoth Tarot
The Thoth Tarot is a highly influential and esoteric tarot deck designed by occultist Aleister Crowley with artwork by Lady Frieda Harris, known for its rich symbolism and Thelemic, astrological, and Qabalistic correspondences.
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Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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Draw of the Cards
"Draw of the Cards" is a 1981 synth-driven pop/rock song by American singer Kim Carnes, released as a follow-up single to her hit "Bette Davis Eyes."
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Tarot
Tarot is a system of illustrated cards used in Western esotericism for divination, introspection, and symbolic exploration of spiritual and psychological themes.
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E.
Le Grand Arcane ou l’Occultisme Dévoilé
Le Grand Arcane ou l’Occultisme Dévoilé is a posthumously published esoteric treatise by Éliphas Lévi that explores the deepest secrets of Western occultism, magic, and mystical philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot Target entity description: Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot is a short story by Neil Gaiman that appears in his collection Fragile Things, blending dark fantasy and occult imagery through the conceit of a mysterious tarot deck.
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A.
Thoth Tarot
The Thoth Tarot is a highly influential and esoteric tarot deck designed by occultist Aleister Crowley with artwork by Lady Frieda Harris, known for its rich symbolism and Thelemic, astrological, and Qabalistic correspondences.
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B.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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C.
Draw of the Cards
"Draw of the Cards" is a 1981 synth-driven pop/rock song by American singer Kim Carnes, released as a follow-up single to her hit "Bette Davis Eyes."
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D.
Tarot
Tarot is a system of illustrated cards used in Western esotericism for divination, introspection, and symbolic exploration of spiritual and psychological themes.
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E.
Le Grand Arcane ou l’Occultisme Dévoilé
Le Grand Arcane ou l’Occultisme Dévoilé is a posthumously published esoteric treatise by Éliphas Lévi that explores the deepest secrets of Western occultism, magic, and mystical philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
short story
ⓘ
work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
occult imagery
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tarot cards ⓘ vampires ⓘ |
| collection | Fragile Things ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Neil Gaiman works universe
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linked to:
Neil Gaiman bibliography
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| genre |
dark fantasy
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fantasy fiction ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | short prose narrative ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | speculative fiction ⓘ |
| medium | prose ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | tarot deck ⓘ |
| originalPublicationForm | short story collection ⓘ |
| theme |
death
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destiny ⓘ fate ⓘ mystery ⓘ supernatural ⓘ |
| workIn | Fragile Things ⓘ |
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: Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot Description of subject: Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot is a short story by Neil Gaiman that appears in his collection Fragile Things, blending dark fantasy and occult imagery through the conceit of a mysterious tarot deck.
Referenced by (1)
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