Edgar Caswall
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Edgar Caswall is the sinister, hypnotically gifted squire and primary human antagonist in Bram Stoker’s horror novel "The Lair of the White Worm."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar Caswall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11094747 — 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: Edgar Caswall Context triple: [The Lair of the White Worm, hasCharacter, Edgar Caswall]
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A.
Geoffrey Burgon
Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
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B.
F. W. Jacomb
F. W. Jacomb was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Castor.
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C.
Alfred Church
Alfred Church was an influential figure best known for establishing Church’s, the renowned English shoemaking company.
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D.
George Steer
George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
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E.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper was a 19th-century English poet and popular moralist best known for his once widely read didactic work "Proverbial Philosophy."
- 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: Edgar Caswall Target entity description: Edgar Caswall is the sinister, hypnotically gifted squire and primary human antagonist in Bram Stoker’s horror novel "The Lair of the White Worm."
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A.
Geoffrey Burgon
Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
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B.
F. W. Jacomb
F. W. Jacomb was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Castor.
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C.
Alfred Church
Alfred Church was an influential figure best known for establishing Church’s, the renowned English shoemaking company.
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D.
George Steer
George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
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E.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper was a 19th-century English poet and popular moralist best known for his once widely read didactic work "Proverbial Philosophy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Lair of the White Worm ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | horror novel ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | England ⓘ |
| createdBy | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
| genre | horror fiction character ⓘ |
| hasAbility | hypnosis ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
drives conflict
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embodies malevolent human will ⓘ |
| hasPowerDynamicWith | other characters in The Lair of the White Worm ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalAspect | mesmeric influence ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
cruel
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domineering ⓘ obsessive ⓘ sinister ⓘ |
| isFictionalAntagonistOf | The Lair of the White Worm protagonists ⓘ |
| isWorkCharacterOf | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| occupation | squire ⓘ |
| publicationContext | early 20th-century Gothic horror ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| role | primary human antagonist ⓘ |
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: Edgar Caswall Description of subject: Edgar Caswall is the sinister, hypnotically gifted squire and primary human antagonist in Bram Stoker’s horror novel "The Lair of the White Worm."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.