Murder in the Cathedral
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Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that dramatizes the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket and explores themes of faith, power, and spiritual temptation.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167847 — 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: Murder in the Cathedral Context triple: [T. S. Eliot, notableWork, Murder in the Cathedral]
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Ash-Wednesday
Ash-Wednesday is a 1930 poem by T. S. Eliot that marks his turn toward Christian faith, blending spiritual introspection with complex, allusive verse.
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The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller that uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthy-era anti-communist hysteria in the United States.
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Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman is a major Middle English allegorical poem, attributed to William Langland, that explores social justice and Christian spirituality through a series of dream visions.
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The Spectre Bridegroom
The Spectre Bridegroom is a short Gothic-humor tale by Washington Irving about a mysterious, seemingly supernatural bridegroom whose true identity is revealed in a comic twist.
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Trial of the Sixteen
The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.
- 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: Murder in the Cathedral Target entity description: Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that dramatizes the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket and explores themes of faith, power, and spiritual temptation.
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A.
Ash-Wednesday
Ash-Wednesday is a 1930 poem by T. S. Eliot that marks his turn toward Christian faith, blending spiritual introspection with complex, allusive verse.
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B.
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller that uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthy-era anti-communist hysteria in the United States.
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C.
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman is a major Middle English allegorical poem, attributed to William Langland, that explores social justice and Christian spirituality through a series of dream visions.
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D.
The Spectre Bridegroom
The Spectre Bridegroom is a short Gothic-humor tale by Washington Irving about a mysterious, seemingly supernatural bridegroom whose true identity is revealed in a comic twist.
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E.
Trial of the Sixteen
The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Murder in the Cathedral Description of subject: Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that dramatizes the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket and explores themes of faith, power, and spiritual temptation.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Murder in the Cathedral (1951 film)
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Murder in the Cathedral (radio adaptations)
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"Murder in the Cathedral"
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Act I of Murder in the Cathedral
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Act I of Murder in the Cathedral
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Act II of Murder in the Cathedral
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Part I of Murder in the Cathedral
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Part II of Murder in the Cathedral
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T. S. Eliot’s play "Murder in the Cathedral"