The Scream
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The Scream is a novella by Rohinton Mistry that poignantly explores aging, isolation, and family tensions through the reflections of an elderly narrator in a Bombay apartment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Scream canonical | 1 |
| “The Scream” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7888117 — 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 Scream Context triple: [Rohinton Mistry, notableWork, The Scream]
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A.
The Scream
The Scream is an iconic late-19th-century painting by Edvard Munch that powerfully depicts existential angst and has become one of the most recognizable images in modern art.
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B.
Scream!
"Scream!" is a popular horror-themed punk rock song by the American band Misfits, known for its aggressive style and macabre lyrics.
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C.
Silent Scream
"Silent Scream" is a 1990 British television film in which Iain Glen delivers an acclaimed performance as convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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D.
Nightmare
Nightmare is a powerful, recurring villain in the Kirby video game series, typically portrayed as a dark, dream-manipulating entity that threatens Dream Land.
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E.
Nightmare
Nightmare is a powerful Marvel Comics supervillain and ruler of the Dream Dimension who frequently battles Doctor Strange by invading and manipulating the dreams of mortals.
- 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 Scream Target entity description: The Scream is a novella by Rohinton Mistry that poignantly explores aging, isolation, and family tensions through the reflections of an elderly narrator in a Bombay apartment.
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A.
The Scream
The Scream is an iconic late-19th-century painting by Edvard Munch that powerfully depicts existential angst and has become one of the most recognizable images in modern art.
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B.
Scream!
"Scream!" is a popular horror-themed punk rock song by the American band Misfits, known for its aggressive style and macabre lyrics.
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C.
Silent Scream
"Silent Scream" is a 1990 British television film in which Iain Glen delivers an acclaimed performance as convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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D.
Nightmare
Nightmare is a powerful, recurring villain in the Kirby video game series, typically portrayed as a dark, dream-manipulating entity that threatens Dream Land.
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E.
Nightmare
Nightmare is a powerful Marvel Comics supervillain and ruler of the Dream Dimension who frequently battles Doctor Strange by invading and manipulating the dreams of mortals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novella ⓘ |
| author | Rohinton Mistry ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Indian-born Canadian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| depicts |
life in a Bombay apartment building
ⓘ
psychological impact of aging ⓘ tensions within a family household ⓘ |
| explores |
emotional alienation
ⓘ
family neglect ⓘ intergenerational conflict ⓘ physical frailty in old age ⓘ |
| focusesOn | reflections of an elderly narrator ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Scream ⓘ |
| hasTone |
introspective
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ poignant ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| mainThemes |
aging
ⓘ
family tensions ⓘ isolation ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | elderly man ⓘ |
| originalSetting | Bombay ⓘ |
| settingCity |
Bombay
ⓘ
linked to:
Mumbai
|
| settingCountry | India ⓘ |
| settingType | urban apartment ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Rohinton Mistry ⓘ |
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 Scream Description of subject: The Scream is a novella by Rohinton Mistry that poignantly explores aging, isolation, and family tensions through the reflections of an elderly narrator in a Bombay apartment.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Scream