Poor Things
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Poor Things is a 1992 novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray that blends gothic fantasy, political satire, and metafiction in a reimagining of the Frankenstein story set in Victorian Glasgow.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Poor Things canonical | 4 |
| Poor Things (novel) | 4 |
| Poor Things (1992 novel) | 1 |
| Poor Things universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10949354 — 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: Poor Things Context triple: [Alasdair Gray, notableWork, Poor Things]
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Poor Things
Poor Things is a 2023 surreal black comedy fantasy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, in which Emma Stone stars as a resurrected woman undergoing a bizarre journey of self-discovery.
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Saint Maud
Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film that follows a deeply religious hospice nurse whose obsessive faith and growing mental instability lead to disturbing and supernatural-seeming events.
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Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, known for its lavish Victorian production design, ghostly atmosphere, and twisted family drama.
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Gothika
Gothika is a 2003 supernatural psychological horror film starring Halle Berry as a criminal psychologist who becomes a patient in her own mental institution after a mysterious, possibly paranormal incident.
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E.
Vivarium
Vivarium is a 2019 science fiction psychological horror film in which a couple becomes trapped in a mysterious, labyrinthine suburban housing development.
- 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: Poor Things Target entity description: Poor Things is a 1992 novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray that blends gothic fantasy, political satire, and metafiction in a reimagining of the Frankenstein story set in Victorian Glasgow.
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A.
Poor Things
Poor Things is a 2023 surreal black comedy fantasy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, in which Emma Stone stars as a resurrected woman undergoing a bizarre journey of self-discovery.
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B.
Saint Maud
Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film that follows a deeply religious hospice nurse whose obsessive faith and growing mental instability lead to disturbing and supernatural-seeming events.
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C.
Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, known for its lavish Victorian production design, ghostly atmosphere, and twisted family drama.
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D.
Gothika
Gothika is a 2003 supernatural psychological horror film starring Halle Berry as a criminal psychologist who becomes a patient in her own mental institution after a mysterious, possibly paranormal incident.
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E.
Vivarium
Vivarium is a 2019 science fiction psychological horror film in which a couple becomes trapped in a mysterious, labyrinthine suburban housing development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Poor Things Description of subject: Poor Things is a 1992 novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray that blends gothic fantasy, political satire, and metafiction in a reimagining of the Frankenstein story set in Victorian Glasgow.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Bella Baxter in Poor Things
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Bella Baxter in Poor Things
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Poor Things