Eli
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Eli is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient brotherhood promising immortality at a terrible cost.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eli canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8495169 — 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: Eli Context triple: [The Book of Skulls, hasCharacter, Eli]
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A.
Eli
Eli is a given name most famously associated with American inventor Eli Whitney, known for creating the cotton gin.
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B.
Eli
"Eli" is a 2019 Netflix horror film about a boy with a mysterious illness who undergoes experimental treatment in a secluded facility where sinister supernatural events unfold.
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C.
Eli
Eli is a biblical high priest and judge of Israel known for mentoring the prophet Samuel and presiding over the sanctuary at Shiloh.
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D.
Elias
Elias is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh is God," commonly used in various European and English-speaking countries.
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E.
Elias
Elias is a WWE professional wrestler and musician character known for his in-ring performances that often feature live guitar-playing and crowd-interacting segments.
- 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: Eli Target entity description: Eli is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient brotherhood promising immortality at a terrible cost.
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A.
Eli
Eli is a given name most famously associated with American inventor Eli Whitney, known for creating the cotton gin.
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B.
Eli
Eli is a biblical high priest and judge of Israel known for mentoring the prophet Samuel and presiding over the sanctuary at Shiloh.
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C.
Eli
"Eli" is a 2019 Netflix horror film about a boy with a mysterious illness who undergoes experimental treatment in a secluded facility where sinister supernatural events unfold.
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D.
Elias
Elias is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh is God," commonly used in various European and English-speaking countries.
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E.
Elias
Elias is a WWE professional wrestler and musician character known for his in-ring performances that often feature live guitar-playing and crowd-interacting segments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Book of Skulls
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novel The Book of Skulls ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ancient brotherhood promising immortality
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quest for immortality ⓘ |
| characterInGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| hasThemeInWork |
death and survival
ⓘ
immortality at a terrible cost ⓘ moral dilemma ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterIn | The Book of Skulls ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodOfWork | 20th-century American science fiction ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOfGroup | four college students seeking immortality ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Book of Skulls universe
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linked to:
The Book of Skulls
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| sharesStoryWith |
Ned
ⓘ
Oliver ⓘ Tim ⓘ |
| workPublicationDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
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: Eli Description of subject: Eli is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient brotherhood promising immortality at a terrible cost.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.