The House by the Churchyard
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The House by the Churchyard is a 19th-century gothic mystery novel by Sheridan Le Fanu, blending ghostly intrigue with social and historical drama in an Irish village setting.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The House by the Churchyard canonical | 17 |
| The Churchyard (in the novel) | 1 |
| novel The House by the Churchyard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2422436 — 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 House by the Churchyard Context triple: [Sheridan Le Fanu, notableWork, The House by the Churchyard]
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A.
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The May-Pole of Merry Mount is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that contrasts the joyful revelry of a pagan-leaning colony with the stern austerity of Puritan New England.
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B.
The Chimney-Corner
"The Chimney-Corner" is a collection of domestic essays and sketches by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflect on family life, morality, and social issues in 19th-century America.
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C.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
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D.
All Hallows-by-the-Tower
All Hallows-by-the-Tower is one of the oldest surviving churches in the City of London, notable for its medieval origins and proximity to the Tower of London.
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The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a classic 1898 gothic novella by Henry James that tells the ambiguous and psychologically tense story of a governess who believes the children in her care are haunted by malevolent spirits.
- 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 House by the Churchyard Target entity description: The House by the Churchyard is a 19th-century gothic mystery novel by Sheridan Le Fanu, blending ghostly intrigue with social and historical drama in an Irish village setting.
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A.
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The May-Pole of Merry Mount is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that contrasts the joyful revelry of a pagan-leaning colony with the stern austerity of Puritan New England.
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B.
The Chimney-Corner
"The Chimney-Corner" is a collection of domestic essays and sketches by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflect on family life, morality, and social issues in 19th-century America.
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C.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
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D.
All Hallows-by-the-Tower
All Hallows-by-the-Tower is one of the oldest surviving churches in the City of London, notable for its medieval origins and proximity to the Tower of London.
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E.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a classic 1898 gothic novella by Henry James that tells the ambiguous and psychologically tense story of a governess who believes the children in her care are haunted by malevolent spirits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 House by the Churchyard Description of subject: The House by the Churchyard is a 19th-century gothic mystery novel by Sheridan Le Fanu, blending ghostly intrigue with social and historical drama in an Irish village setting.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.