Obsession
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Obsession is a psychological horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell, centered on childhood guilt, dark secrets, and the haunting consequences of past actions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Obsession canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10128124 — 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: Obsession Context triple: [Ramsey Campbell, notableWork, Obsession]
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Obsession
"Obsession" is a synth-pop single by American singer Sky Ferreira that helped introduce her dark, edgy pop aesthetic to a wider audience.
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Obsession
Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, known for its Hitchcockian style, themes of guilt and identity, and Bernard Herrmann’s haunting score.
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Obsession
Obsession is a novel by American crime writer Lionel White, known for its hardboiled suspense and for inspiring Jean-Luc Godard’s film "Pierrot le Fou."
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Obsessed
"Obsessed" is a country-pop studio album by American duo Dan + Shay, featuring romantic, harmony-rich tracks that helped solidify their mainstream success.
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Obsessed
Obsessed is a work by creator Ken Seng, recognized as one of his notable contributions to his field.
- 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: Obsession Target entity description: Obsession is a psychological horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell, centered on childhood guilt, dark secrets, and the haunting consequences of past actions.
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A.
Obsession
"Obsession" is a synth-pop single by American singer Sky Ferreira that helped introduce her dark, edgy pop aesthetic to a wider audience.
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B.
Obsession
Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, known for its Hitchcockian style, themes of guilt and identity, and Bernard Herrmann’s haunting score.
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C.
Obsession
Obsession is a novel by American crime writer Lionel White, known for its hardboiled suspense and for inspiring Jean-Luc Godard’s film "Pierrot le Fou."
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Obsessed
Obsessed is a social media account or online persona that is followed by the user Cinco.
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Obsessed
Obsessed is a work by creator Ken Seng, recognized as one of his notable contributions to his field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Ramsey Campbell ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
fear and paranoia
ⓘ
moral responsibility ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ repressed memories ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Ramsey Campbell ⓘ |
| hasConflictType |
internal psychological conflict
ⓘ
supernatural or possibly supernatural threat ⓘ |
| hasMotive | guilt ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistCharacteristic | haunted by childhood events ⓘ |
| hasSetting | contemporary England ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
ⓘ
psychological ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
childhood guilt
ⓘ
consequences of past actions ⓘ dark secrets ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | haunting consequences of past actions ⓘ |
| partOf | Ramsey Campbell bibliography ⓘ |
| writtenBy | 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: Obsession Description of subject: Obsession is a psychological horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell, centered on childhood guilt, dark secrets, and the haunting consequences of past actions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.