The Dweller on the Threshold
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The Dweller on the Threshold is a supernatural novel by Robert Hichens that explores occult themes, psychological terror, and the confrontation with an ominous metaphysical presence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dweller on the Threshold canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13037009 — 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 Dweller on the Threshold Context triple: [Robert Hichens, notableWork, The Dweller on the Threshold]
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A.
The Dweller of the Threshold
The Dweller of the Threshold is a mysterious occult entity in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel "Zanoni," symbolizing the terrifying inner trials and spiritual dangers faced by those who seek forbidden knowledge and higher initiation.
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B.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
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C.
The World Unseen
The World Unseen is a 2007 period drama film set in 1950s apartheid-era South Africa that explores forbidden love and social oppression within the Indian South African community.
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D.
Book of the Sleeping
Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
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E.
The Impercipient
"The Impercipient" is a reflective poem by Thomas Hardy that explores themes of religious doubt, spiritual alienation, and the pain of feeling excluded from others’ faith.
- 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 Dweller on the Threshold Target entity description: The Dweller on the Threshold is a supernatural novel by Robert Hichens that explores occult themes, psychological terror, and the confrontation with an ominous metaphysical presence.
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A.
The Dweller of the Threshold
The Dweller of the Threshold is a mysterious occult entity in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel "Zanoni," symbolizing the terrifying inner trials and spiritual dangers faced by those who seek forbidden knowledge and higher initiation.
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B.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
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C.
The World Unseen
The World Unseen is a 2007 period drama film set in 1950s apartheid-era South Africa that explores forbidden love and social oppression within the Indian South African community.
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D.
Book of the Sleeping
Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
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E.
The Impercipient
"The Impercipient" is a reflective poem by Thomas Hardy that explores themes of religious doubt, spiritual alienation, and the pain of feeling excluded from others’ faith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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person ⓘ supernatural novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert Hichens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
fear
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metaphysical horror ⓘ occultism ⓘ psychological terror ⓘ spiritual danger ⓘ supernatural presence ⓘ the unknown ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
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occult fiction ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasMetaphysicalElement | ominous metaphysical presence ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFocus |
confrontation with a supernatural entity
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inner psychological conflict ⓘ |
| hasOccultContent | yes ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalContent | yes ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
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mysterious ⓘ ominous ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Dweller on the Threshold ⓘ |
| occupation | novelist ⓘ |
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 Dweller on the Threshold Description of subject: The Dweller on the Threshold is a supernatural novel by Robert Hichens that explores occult themes, psychological terror, and the confrontation with an ominous metaphysical presence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Dweller on the Threshold