Delapore
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Delapore is the ill-fated narrator of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Rats in the Walls," whose investigation of his ancestral estate uncovers a monstrous family secret that drives him to madness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delapore canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316074 — 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: Delapore Context triple: [The Rats in the Walls, protagonist, Delapore]
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A.
Lardé
Lardé is the surname of Alicia Esther Lardé, a Salvadoran-born physicist and the first wife of mathematician John Nash.
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B.
Durolle
Durolle is a river in central France that flows through the town of Thiers, historically powering its renowned cutlery and knife-making industry.
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C.
Sauvy
Sauvy is a French surname most notably borne by Alfred Sauvy, a prominent demographer, sociologist, and economist.
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D.
Drouet
Drouet is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster who helped identify and arrest King Louis XVI during his attempted flight in 1791.
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E.
Looz
Looz is the historical name of the medieval County of Loon, a former principality in what is now eastern Belgium.
- 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: Delapore Target entity description: Delapore is the ill-fated narrator of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Rats in the Walls," whose investigation of his ancestral estate uncovers a monstrous family secret that drives him to madness.
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A.
Lardé
Lardé is the surname of Alicia Esther Lardé, a Salvadoran-born physicist and the first wife of mathematician John Nash.
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B.
Durolle
Durolle is a river in central France that flows through the town of Thiers, historically powering its renowned cutlery and knife-making industry.
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C.
Sauvy
Sauvy is a French surname most notably borne by Alfred Sauvy, a prominent demographer, sociologist, and economist.
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D.
Drouet
Drouet is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster who helped identify and arrest King Louis XVI during his attempted flight in 1791.
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E.
Looz
Looz is the historical name of the medieval County of Loon, a former principality in what is now eastern Belgium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lovecraft character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| ancestry | English ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rats in the Walls ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cannibalistic practices of ancestors
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rats in the walls ⓘ underground caverns beneath Exham Priory ⓘ |
| createdBy | H. P. Lovecraft ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| discovers | ancestral atrocities beneath Exham Priory ⓘ |
| familyHistorySpans | centuries ⓘ |
| familyNameOrigin | Exham Priory family ⓘ |
| finalCondition | madness ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| fullName | Delapore ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasPet | cat ⓘ |
| investigates | Exham Priory ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| linkedToMotif |
buried secrets
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curse of bloodline ⓘ haunted ancestral house ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | central figure in one of Lovecraft’s best-known short stories ⓘ |
| locationOfEstate | England ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| mentalState | increasingly unstable ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| owns | Exham Priory ⓘ |
| relatedToTheme |
degeneration
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hereditary guilt ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| residesAt | Exham Priory ⓘ |
| role |
narrator
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protagonist ⓘ |
| storyOriginallyPublishedIn |
Weird Tales
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linked to:
Weird Tales magazine
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| storySettingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| subgenre | weird fiction ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
adaptations in audio dramas
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comic adaptations of The Rats in the Walls ⓘ literary criticism on race and heredity in Lovecraft ⓘ |
| uncovers | monstrous family secret ⓘ |
| workBelongsToCycle | Cthulhu Mythos-adjacent fiction ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Delapore Description of subject: Delapore is the ill-fated narrator of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Rats in the Walls," whose investigation of his ancestral estate uncovers a monstrous family secret that drives him to madness.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.