Edgar Ravenswood
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Edgar Ravenswood is the tragic, ill-fated Scottish nobleman who serves as the doomed romantic hero of Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Bride of Lammermoor."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar Ravenswood canonical | 6 |
| Edgardo di Ravenswood | 2 |
| Edgar Ravenswood is the last male heir of the Ravenswood family | 1 |
| opposes Lucy Ashton's relationship with Edgar Ravenswood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8767255 — 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: Edgar Ravenswood Context triple: [The Bride of Lammermoor, mainCharacter, Edgar Ravenswood]
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A.
Silas Talbot
Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
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B.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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C.
Victor Comstock
Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
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D.
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
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E.
Herbert West–Reanimator
Herbert West–Reanimator is a serialized horror story by H. P. Lovecraft about a fanatical medical student obsessed with reanimating the dead, often cited as an early example of modern zombie fiction.
- 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: Edgar Ravenswood Target entity description: Edgar Ravenswood is the tragic, ill-fated Scottish nobleman who serves as the doomed romantic hero of Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Bride of Lammermoor."
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A.
Silas Talbot
Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
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B.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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C.
Victor Comstock
Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
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D.
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
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E.
Herbert West–Reanimator
Herbert West–Reanimator is a serialized horror story by H. P. Lovecraft about a fanatical medical student obsessed with reanimating the dead, often cited as an early example of modern zombie fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Edgar Ravenswood Description of subject: Edgar Ravenswood is the tragic, ill-fated Scottish nobleman who serves as the doomed romantic hero of Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Bride of Lammermoor."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lucia in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"
linked to: Edgar Ravenswood
linked to: Edgar Ravenswood
linked to: Edgar Ravenswood
linked to: Edgar Ravenswood