The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Woman in Black canonical | 13 |
| The Woman in Black (1989 film) | 3 |
| The Woman in Black (2012 film) | 3 |
| the Woman in Black | 3 |
| The Woman in Black (film) | 1 |
| The Woman in Black (play) | 1 |
| The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2385738 — 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 Woman in Black Context triple: [Jane Goldman, notableWork, The Woman in Black]
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A.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
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B.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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C.
The Witch of Portobello
The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores spirituality, identity, and the nature of love through the fragmented testimonies of people who knew its enigmatic heroine, Athena.
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D.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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E.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
- 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 Woman in Black Target entity description: The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
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A.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
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B.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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C.
The Witch of Portobello
The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores spirituality, identity, and the nature of love through the fragmented testimonies of people who knew its enigmatic heroine, Athena.
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D.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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E.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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feature film ⓘ fictional work ⓘ film ⓘ gothic horror story ⓘ novel ⓘ stage play ⓘ stage play ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| author | Susan Hill ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Woman in Black
self-linksurface differs
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The Woman in Black self-linksurface differs ⓘ The Woman in Black self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
grief
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isolation ⓘ revenge ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
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Sweden ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | James Watkins ⓘ |
| genre | gothic horror ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Woman in Black
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Woman in Black (1989 film)
The Woman in Black self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
The Woman in Black self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Woman in Black (play)
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death ⓘ
surface form:
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
|
| leadActor | Daniel Radcliffe ⓘ |
| longestRun | one of the longest-running plays in West End history ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | Jennet Humfrye ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Arthur Kipps ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| playwright | Stephen Mallatratt ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Stephen Joseph Theatre ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| producer | Hammer Film Productions ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hamish Hamilton ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
2012
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2014 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jane Goldman ⓘ |
| sequelTo |
The Woman in Black
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
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| setting |
Crythin Gifford
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Eel Marsh House ⓘ England ⓘ |
| transferredTo | West End ⓘ |
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 Woman in Black Description of subject: The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (film)
this entity surface form:
the Woman in Black
this entity surface form:
the Woman in Black
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (play)
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (1989 film)
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
subject surface form:
The Woman in Black (play)
subject surface form:
The Woman in Black (1989 film)
subject surface form:
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
subject surface form:
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
subject surface form:
The Woman in Black
this entity surface form:
the Woman in Black
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (1989 film)
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black (1989 film)