"The Shadow Builder"
E904451
"The Shadow Builder" is a supernatural horror short story by Bram Stoker, included in his 1881 collection Under the Sunset.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "The Shadow Builder" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11094880 — 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 Shadow Builder" Context triple: [Under the Sunset, hasPart, "The Shadow Builder"]
-
A.
The Shadow Box
The Shadow Box is a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by Michael Cristofer that explores the emotional lives of terminally ill patients and their families in a hospice setting.
-
B.
The Black Echo
The Black Echo is a crime novel by Michael Connelly that introduces LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates a murder linked to his past in the Vietnam War.
-
C.
“The Treachery of Sanctuary”
“The Treachery of Sanctuary” is an interactive, large-scale digital art installation by filmmaker and artist Chris Milk that explores themes of life, death, and transcendence through motion-tracking projections of the viewer’s own body.
-
D.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
-
E.
The Hidden One
The Hidden One is a prominent epithet of the ancient Egyptian god Amun, emphasizing his invisible, mysterious, and transcendent nature.
- 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 Shadow Builder" Target entity description: "The Shadow Builder" is a supernatural horror short story by Bram Stoker, included in his 1881 collection Under the Sunset.
-
A.
The Shadow Box
The Shadow Box is a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by Michael Cristofer that explores the emotional lives of terminally ill patients and their families in a hospice setting.
-
B.
The Black Echo
The Black Echo is a crime novel by Michael Connelly that introduces LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates a murder linked to his past in the Vietnam War.
-
C.
“The Treachery of Sanctuary”
“The Treachery of Sanctuary” is an interactive, large-scale digital art installation by filmmaker and artist Chris Milk that explores themes of life, death, and transcendence through motion-tracking projections of the viewer’s own body.
-
D.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
-
E.
The Hidden One
The Hidden One is a prominent epithet of the ancient Egyptian god Amun, emphasizing his invisible, mysterious, and transcendent nature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
short story
ⓘ
supernatural horror story ⓘ |
| author | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Under the Sunset ⓘ |
| followedByInCollection |
Under the Sunset (other stories)
ⓘ
linked to:
Under the Sunset
|
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeClassification | Gothic short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
child
ⓘ
clergyman ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext | late Victorian Gothic tradition ⓘ |
| hasLength | short fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
demonic presence
ⓘ
shadow ⓘ spiritual warfare ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasNotableElement |
Christian symbolism
ⓘ
climactic exorcism-like confrontation ⓘ |
| hasOriginalPublicationContext | Victorian children’s fantasy and horror collection ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience |
general readership
ⓘ
older children ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fear
ⓘ
good versus evil ⓘ religion ⓘ supernatural ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | fiction ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Under the Sunset ⓘ |
| inCollectionPublicationYear | 1881 ⓘ |
| isEarlyWorkOf | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Bram Stoker bibliography ⓘ |
| precededByInCollection |
Under the Sunset (other stories)
ⓘ
linked to:
Under the Sunset
|
| publicationYear | 1881 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstEdition |
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
ⓘ
linked to:
Sampson Low
|
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| sharesGenreWith | Dracula ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
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 Shadow Builder" Description of subject: "The Shadow Builder" is a supernatural horror short story by Bram Stoker, included in his 1881 collection Under the Sunset.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.