The Cask of Amontillado

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Gothic fiction work horror story short story

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.

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Label	Occurrences
The Cask of Amontillado canonical	10
"The Cask of Amontillado"	2
"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)	1
Amontillado	1
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)	1
short story "The Cask of Amontillado"	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295535 — 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 Cask of Amontillado
Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe, notableWork, The Cask of Amontillado]

A. The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
B. The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
C. 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.
D. The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
E. The Fall of the House of Usher
"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.
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 Cask of Amontillado
Target entity description: "The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.

A. The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
B. The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
C. 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.
D. The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
E. The Fall of the House of Usher
"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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Gothic fiction work ⓘ horror story ⓘ short story ⓘ
adaptedAs	film adaptations ⓘ radio drama adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ
author	Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
firstPublicationYear	1846 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn	Godey’s Lady’s Book ⓘ
genre	Gothic fiction ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ revenge tale ⓘ
hasCharacter	Fortunato ⓘ Luchesi ⓘ Montresor ⓘ
hasFamousLine	“For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them.” ⓘ “In pace requiescat!” ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryDevice	dramatic irony ⓘ foreshadowing ⓘ symbolism ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ
literaryMovement	American Romanticism ⓘ Dark Romanticism ⓘ linked to: Romanticism
mainCharacter	Fortunato ⓘ Montresor ⓘ
motif	carnival ⓘ masquerade and costume ⓘ wine and intoxication ⓘ
narrativePointOfView	first-person narration ⓘ
narratorCharacter	Montresor ⓘ
originalMedium	magazine publication ⓘ
partOf	Edgar Allan Poe’s collected tales ⓘ linked to: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (later editions and collections)
plotSummary	Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs with the promise of tasting rare Amontillado and walls him up alive as revenge. ⓘ
settingLocation	an unnamed Italian city ⓘ catacombs beneath a palazzo ⓘ
studiedIn	American literature courses ⓘ
symbol	Amontillado cask ⓘ Montresor family coat of arms ⓘ trowel ⓘ
theme	burial alive ⓘ class and social status ⓘ deception ⓘ madness ⓘ pride ⓘ revenge ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting	eighteenth or early nineteenth century ⓘ
tone	ironic ⓘ macabre ⓘ

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Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Edgar Allan Poe → notableWork → The Cask of Amontillado ⓘ

subject linked to: Edgar

Edgar Allan Poe bibliography → hasNotableWork → The Cask of Amontillado ⓘ

Poe Cottage, Fordham, New York, United States → associatedWork → The Cask of Amontillado ⓘ

Montresor → appearsIn → The Cask of Amontillado ⓘ

Montresor → firstPublicationContext → The Cask of Amontillado (1846) ⓘ