The Dunwich Horror
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The Dunwich Horror is a classic 1929 cosmic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about occult rituals, monstrous entities, and the encroachment of otherworldly forces on a rural New England town.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dunwich Horror canonical | 8 |
| The Dunwich Horror (1970 film) | 1 |
| The Dunwich Horror (2009 film) | 1 |
| The Dunwich Horror and Others | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715081 — 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 Dunwich Horror Context triple: [H. P. Lovecraft, notableWork, The Dunwich Horror]
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A.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft about a decaying seaside town harboring a monstrous secret tied to an ancient oceanic cult and human–fish hybrids.
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B.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is a 1936 horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft that follows a doomed Antarctic expedition uncovering ancient, cosmic terrors.
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C.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu is a seminal 1928 horror short story that introduced the cosmic entity Cthulhu and became a cornerstone of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
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D.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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E.
The Witch House
The Witch House is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famously associated with the Salem witch trials as the residence of Judge Jonathan Corwin.
- 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 Dunwich Horror Target entity description: The Dunwich Horror is a classic 1929 cosmic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about occult rituals, monstrous entities, and the encroachment of otherworldly forces on a rural New England town.
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A.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft about a decaying seaside town harboring a monstrous secret tied to an ancient oceanic cult and human–fish hybrids.
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B.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is a 1936 horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft that follows a doomed Antarctic expedition uncovering ancient, cosmic terrors.
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C.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu is a seminal 1928 horror short story that introduced the cosmic entity Cthulhu and became a cornerstone of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
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D.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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E.
The Witch House
The Witch House is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famously associated with the Salem witch trials as the residence of Judge Jonathan Corwin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cosmic horror fiction
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short story ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| author | H. P. Lovecraft ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cosmic insignificance of humanity
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degenerate rural isolation ⓘ forbidden knowledge ⓘ occult rituals ⓘ otherworldly forces ⓘ |
| containsElement |
human-sacrifice implications
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scholarly investigation of the occult ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Francis Morgan
ⓘ
Dr. Henry Armitage ⓘ Lavina Whateley ⓘ Old Whateley ⓘ Professor Warren Rice ⓘ Wilbur Whateley ⓘ |
| featuresEntity |
Yog-Sothoth
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invisible monster ⓘ |
| featuresObject |
Necronomicon (fictional grimoire)
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surface form:
Necronomicon
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| firstPublicationDate | April 1929 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Weird Tales magazine
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surface form:
Weird Tales
|
| genre |
cosmic horror
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Dunwich Horror
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Dunwich Horror (1970 film)
The Dunwich Horror self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Dunwich Horror (2009 film)
|
| hasTone |
foreboding
ⓘ
grim ⓘ |
| influenced |
cosmic horror genre
ⓘ
later Cthulhu Mythos stories ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | pulp magazine fiction ⓘ |
| motif |
ancient tomes
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blasphemous rites ⓘ invisible horror ⓘ monstrous birth ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Cthulhu Mythos ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstEdition | Weird Tales magazine ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Dunwich
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surface form:
Dunwich, Massachusetts
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| settingRegion | rural New England ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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 Dunwich Horror Description of subject: The Dunwich Horror is a classic 1929 cosmic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about occult rituals, monstrous entities, and the encroachment of otherworldly forces on a rural New England town.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Dunwich Horror and Others
subject surface form:
Necronomicon
this entity surface form:
The Dunwich Horror (1970 film)
this entity surface form:
The Dunwich Horror (2009 film)