The Fall of the House of Usher
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fall of the House of Usher canonical | 15 |
| House of Usher | 5 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (short story) | 3 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales | 1 |
| the House of Usher | 1 |
| the house of Usher | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295531 — 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 Fall of the House of Usher Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe, notableWork, The Fall of the House of Usher]
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A.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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B.
The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, renowned for its melancholic atmosphere, musical language, and exploration of grief and madness as a mysterious raven visits a grieving man.
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C.
The Wishing-Chair
The Wishing-Chair is a classic children's fantasy book by Enid Blyton about a magical flying chair that takes two siblings on a series of whimsical adventures.
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D.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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E.
The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
- 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 Fall of the House of Usher Target entity description: "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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A.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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B.
The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, renowned for its melancholic atmosphere, musical language, and exploration of grief and madness as a mysterious raven visits a grieving man.
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C.
The Wishing-Chair
The Wishing-Chair is a classic children's fantasy book by Enid Blyton about a magical flying chair that takes two siblings on a series of whimsical adventures.
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D.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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E.
The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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horror fiction work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublicationDate | 1839 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
horror ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 film)
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1960 film) ⓘ The Fall of the House of Usher (opera) ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Madeline Usher
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Roderick Usher ⓘ unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| influenced |
Gothic literature
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surface form:
Gothic horror literature
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Madeline Usher
ⓘ
Roderick Usher ⓘ |
| motif |
crumbling house
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incest implication ⓘ living burial ⓘ mirror imagery between house and family ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | unnamed first-person narrator ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (later editions and collections)
ⓘ
surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the grotesque and arabesque tradition
|
| setting |
decaying mansion
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isolated countryside ⓘ |
| structure | frame narrative elements ⓘ |
| symbol |
cracks in the mansion
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The Fall of the House of Usher self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
the house of Usher
the tarn (dark lake) ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
decline of an aristocratic family
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psychological disintegration ⓘ |
| theme |
death
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decay ⓘ entombment ⓘ family degeneration ⓘ fear ⓘ isolation ⓘ madness ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ |
| tone |
eerie
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melancholic ⓘ oppressive atmosphere ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: The Fall of the House of Usher Description of subject: "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the house of Usher
subject surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe
this entity surface form:
House of Usher
this entity surface form:
House of Usher
this entity surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
this entity surface form:
the House of Usher
this entity surface form:
House of Usher
this entity surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (short story)
this entity surface form:
House of Usher
this entity surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (short story)
this entity surface form:
House of Usher
subject surface form:
House of Usher
subject surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV series)
this entity surface form:
The Fall of the House of Usher (short story)