The Face That Must Die
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The Face That Must Die is a psychological horror novel by British author Ramsey Campbell, focusing on a paranoid, violent man whose delusions drive him toward murder in a grimly realistic urban setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Face That Must Die canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10128121 — 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 Face That Must Die Context triple: [Ramsey Campbell, notableWork, The Face That Must Die]
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A.
The Face Behind the Mask
The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 film noir–style crime drama best known for Peter Lorre’s haunting performance as a disfigured immigrant driven to desperate criminality.
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B.
The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face is a 1993 American drama film in which Mel Gibson, in his directorial debut, also stars as a disfigured former teacher who forms a transformative bond with a troubled boy.
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C.
The Face
"The Face" is a song by British rock band Kings of Leon from their 2010 album *Come Around Sundown*.
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D.
The Naked Face
The Naked Face is a psychological thriller novel by Sidney Sheldon that follows a psychoanalyst entangled in a deadly mystery after his patients are murdered.
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E.
Angel Face
Angel Face is a 1953 film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger, best known for Jean Simmons’s chilling performance as a manipulative young woman involved in a deadly romantic entanglement.
- 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 Face That Must Die Target entity description: The Face That Must Die is a psychological horror novel by British author Ramsey Campbell, focusing on a paranoid, violent man whose delusions drive him toward murder in a grimly realistic urban setting.
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A.
The Face Behind the Mask
The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 film noir–style crime drama best known for Peter Lorre’s haunting performance as a disfigured immigrant driven to desperate criminality.
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B.
The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face is a 1993 American drama film in which Mel Gibson, in his directorial debut, also stars as a disfigured former teacher who forms a transformative bond with a troubled boy.
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C.
The Face
"The Face" is a song by British rock band Kings of Leon from their 2010 album *Come Around Sundown*.
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D.
The Naked Face
The Naked Face is a psychological thriller novel by Sidney Sheldon that follows a psychoanalyst entangled in a deadly mystery after his patients are murdered.
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E.
Angel Face
Angel Face is a 1953 film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger, best known for Jean Simmons’s chilling performance as a manipulative young woman involved in a deadly romantic entanglement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Ramsey Campbell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | John Horridge ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modern horror ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
grim realism
ⓘ
urban realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacterTrait |
paranoid
ⓘ
violent ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
paranoia
ⓘ
violent delusions ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bleak depiction of urban life
ⓘ
intense psychological characterization ⓘ |
| plotElement |
escalating homicidal intent
ⓘ
obsessive surveillance of strangers ⓘ serial killings ⓘ |
| publisher | Pan Books ⓘ |
| setting | Liverpool ⓘ |
| theme |
mental illness
ⓘ
murder ⓘ social decay ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Ramsey Campbell ⓘ |
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 Face That Must Die Description of subject: The Face That Must Die is a psychological horror novel by British author Ramsey Campbell, focusing on a paranoid, violent man whose delusions drive him toward murder in a grimly realistic urban setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.