The White Disease
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The White Disease is a dystopian play by Karel Čapek that portrays the rise of fascism and moral collapse in a society ravaged by a mysterious, incurable plague.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The White Disease canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14486109 — 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 White Disease Context triple: [Karel Čapek, notableWork, The White Disease]
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A.
The White Plague
The White Plague is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores the global and psychological consequences of a bioterrorist-engineered pandemic.
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B.
The Pest
The Pest is a 1997 slapstick comedy film starring John Leguizamo as a fast-talking con artist who becomes the target of a deadly manhunt.
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C.
The White Flock
The White Flock is a 1917 poetry collection by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova that exemplifies her lyrical, emotionally intense style during the Silver Age of Russian literature.
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D.
The White One
The White One is an epithet of Nekhbet, the ancient Egyptian vulture goddess who served as a protector of Upper Egypt and the pharaoh.
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E.
Lethal White
Lethal White is a crime novel in the Cormoran Strike detective series, written under J. K. Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
- 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 White Disease Target entity description: The White Disease is a dystopian play by Karel Čapek that portrays the rise of fascism and moral collapse in a society ravaged by a mysterious, incurable plague.
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A.
The White Plague
The White Plague is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores the global and psychological consequences of a bioterrorist-engineered pandemic.
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B.
The Pest
The Pest is a 1997 slapstick comedy film starring John Leguizamo as a fast-talking con artist who becomes the target of a deadly manhunt.
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C.
The White Flock
The White Flock is a 1917 poetry collection by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova that exemplifies her lyrical, emotionally intense style during the Silver Age of Russian literature.
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D.
The White One
The White One is an epithet of Nekhbet, the ancient Egyptian vulture goddess who served as a protector of Upper Egypt and the pharaoh.
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E.
Lethal White
Lethal White is a crime novel in the Cormoran Strike detective series, written under J. K. Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.