Penric’s Demon
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Penric’s Demon is a fantasy novella by Lois McMaster Bujold set in her World of the Five Gods universe, following a young man unexpectedly bonded to a powerful chaos demon and the complications that ensue.
All labels observed (1)
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| Penric’s Demon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21639036 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Penric’s Demon Context triple: [World of the Five Gods, hasWork, Penric’s Demon]
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A.
The Demon
"The Demon" is a narrative poem by Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov that tells the tragic love story between a fallen spirit and a mortal Georgian princess.
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B.
The Demon
The Demon is the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, axe-bass–wielding stage persona of Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss.
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C.
The Demon
The Demon is a dark, psychologically intense novel by Hubert Selby Jr. that follows a successful man’s descent into obsession, self-destruction, and moral collapse.
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D.
Demons of the Forbidding
Demons of the Forbidding are malevolent supernatural beings imprisoned beyond the magical barrier known as the Forbidding in Terry Brooks’ Shannara universe.
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E.
The Struggle with the Demon
The Struggle with the Demon is a biographical and psychological study by Stefan Zweig examining the inner conflicts and creative torment of figures such as Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche.
- 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: Penric’s Demon Target entity description: Penric’s Demon is a fantasy novella by Lois McMaster Bujold set in her World of the Five Gods universe, following a young man unexpectedly bonded to a powerful chaos demon and the complications that ensue.
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A.
The Demon
"The Demon" is a narrative poem by Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov that tells the tragic love story between a fallen spirit and a mortal Georgian princess.
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B.
The Demon
The Demon is the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, axe-bass–wielding stage persona of Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss.
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C.
The Demon
The Demon is a dark, psychologically intense novel by Hubert Selby Jr. that follows a successful man’s descent into obsession, self-destruction, and moral collapse.
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D.
Demons of the Forbidding
Demons of the Forbidding are malevolent supernatural beings imprisoned beyond the magical barrier known as the Forbidding in Terry Brooks’ Shannara universe.
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E.
The Struggle with the Demon
The Struggle with the Demon is a biographical and psychological study by Stefan Zweig examining the inner conflicts and creative torment of figures such as Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.