Le Horla
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Le Horla is a classic 1887 horror short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores madness, the supernatural, and unseen malevolent forces through a series of diary entries.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9233671 — 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: Le Horla Context triple: [Guy de Maupassant, notableWork, Le Horla]
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A.
Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
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B.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror is a dark, surreal prose-poem by Comte de Lautréamont that became a foundational text for Symbolism and later Surrealism.
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C.
The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac is a 1920 horror novel by Maurice Renard about a pianist who, after receiving a hand transplant from an executed murderer, becomes tormented by the fear that he has inherited the killer’s violent impulses.
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D.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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E.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
- 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: Le Horla Target entity description: Le Horla is a classic 1887 horror short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores madness, the supernatural, and unseen malevolent forces through a series of diary entries.
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A.
Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
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B.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror is a dark, surreal prose-poem by Comte de Lautréamont that became a foundational text for Symbolism and later Surrealism.
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C.
The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac is a 1920 horror novel by Maurice Renard about a pianist who, after receiving a hand transplant from an executed murderer, becomes tormented by the fear that he has inherited the killer’s violent impulses.
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D.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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E.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Guy de Maupassant ⓘ |
| centralAntagonist |
the Horla
ⓘ
linked to:
Le Horla
|
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
hallucination
ⓘ
invisible entities ⓘ loss of self-control ⓘ paranoia ⓘ psychological deterioration ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | newspaper ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
ⓘ
radio adaptations ⓘ stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
the Horla
ⓘ
linked to:
Le Horla
|
| hasTranslation |
English
ⓘ
many world languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
19th-century spiritualism
ⓘ
contemporary interest in psychiatry ⓘ |
| literaryForm | short story ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
naturalism
ⓘ
realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
fear of the unknown
ⓘ
invisible beings ⓘ madness ⓘ mental instability ⓘ possession ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ unseen malevolent forces ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | diary ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguous treatment of madness and the supernatural
ⓘ
influence on later horror writers ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | French horror literature canon ⓘ |
| period | late 19th century ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1887 ⓘ |
| setting | France ⓘ |
| structure | series of diary entries ⓘ |
| timeOfNarrative | 19th century ⓘ |
| tone |
claustrophobic
ⓘ
dark ⓘ oppressive ⓘ |
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: Le Horla Description of subject: Le Horla is a classic 1887 horror short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores madness, the supernatural, and unseen malevolent forces through a series of diary entries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Le Horla
linked to: Le Horla
linked to: Le Horla