The Monk
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The Monk is a 2011 French-Spanish drama film adapted from Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Gothic novel, following a devout Capuchin friar’s descent into temptation and corruption in 17th-century Spain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Monk canonical | 4 |
| "The Monk" in Spanish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11076897 — 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 Monk Context triple: [The Monk (2011 film), title, The Monk]
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A.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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B.
The Monk
The Monk is a mysterious, ageless Tibetan warrior-monk who protects a powerful ancient scroll in the action film "Bulletproof Monk."
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The Monk by the Sea
The Monk by the Sea is a seminal early 19th-century Romantic landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, renowned for its stark minimalism and profound evocation of human solitude before the vastness of nature.
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The Monastery
"The Monastery" is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott set on the turbulent Scottish-English border during the Reformation, blending romance, politics, and the supernatural.
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E.
The Monastery
The Monastery is a monumental rock-cut façade and temple in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan, renowned for its massive scale and striking Hellenistic-influenced architecture.
- 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 Monk Target entity description: The Monk is a 2011 French-Spanish drama film adapted from Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Gothic novel, following a devout Capuchin friar’s descent into temptation and corruption in 17th-century Spain.
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A.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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B.
The Monk
The Monk is a mysterious, ageless Tibetan warrior-monk who protects a powerful ancient scroll in the action film "Bulletproof Monk."
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C.
The Monk by the Sea
The Monk by the Sea is a seminal early 19th-century Romantic landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, renowned for its stark minimalism and profound evocation of human solitude before the vastness of nature.
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D.
The Monastery
"The Monastery" is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott set on the turbulent Scottish-English border during the Reformation, blending romance, politics, and the supernatural.
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E.
The Monastery
The Monastery is a monumental rock-cut façade and temple in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan, renowned for its massive scale and striking Hellenistic-influenced architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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Spanish film ⓘ drama film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Gothic novel ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Monk ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| coProduction | French-Spanish co-production ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
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Spain ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic film
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drama film ⓘ religious drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSourceGenre | Gothic literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | Capuchin friar ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
descent into sin
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spiritual downfall ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSource | 1796 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Spain ⓘ |
| settingTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| theme |
corruption
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morality ⓘ religion ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| title | The Monk ⓘ |
| workType | adaptation ⓘ |
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 Monk Description of subject: The Monk is a 2011 French-Spanish drama film adapted from Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Gothic novel, following a devout Capuchin friar’s descent into temptation and corruption in 17th-century Spain.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Monk