The Monk
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The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Monk canonical | 22 |
| The Monk (1796) | 1 |
| The Monk (1972 film) | 1 |
| The Monk (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T383484 — 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 Monk Context triple: [Gothic literature, notableWork, The Monk]
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A.
The Constant Maid
The Constant Maid is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty dialogue and exploration of love and social manners.
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B.
The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 romantic fantasy film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven, about an angel who comes to Earth to help a troubled bishop and his wife.
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C.
The Confessions of Felix Krull
The Confessions of Felix Krull is a picaresque novel by Thomas Mann that humorously chronicles the rise of a charming con artist through society by means of deception and role‑playing.
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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.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
- 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 Monk Target entity description: The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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A.
The Constant Maid
The Constant Maid is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty dialogue and exploration of love and social manners.
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B.
The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 romantic fantasy film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven, about an angel who comes to Earth to help a troubled bishop and his wife.
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C.
The Confessions of Felix Krull
The Confessions of Felix Krull is a picaresque novel by Thomas Mann that humorously chronicles the rise of a charming con artist through society by means of deception and role‑playing.
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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.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Monk
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Monk (1972 film)
The Monk (2011 film) ⓘ |
| author | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | subject to expurgated editions ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
corruption
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damnation ⓘ lust ⓘ power and authority ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ sexual repression ⓘ temptation ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ |
| containsElement |
demons
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ghosts ⓘ incest ⓘ murder ⓘ pact with the Devil ⓘ rape ⓘ |
| controversy |
accusations of immorality
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charges of blasphemy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstEditionPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| firstEditionPublisher | J. Bell ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ann Radcliffe
ⓘ
Gothic literature ⓘ
surface form:
Gothic tradition
|
| literaryGenre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
influential in development of horror literature
ⓘ
major work of early Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| movement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Agnes
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Ambrosio ⓘ Antonia ⓘ Matilda ⓘ Raymond ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of Catholic monasticism
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graphic depictions of violence and sexuality ⓘ use of the supernatural ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| period | late 18th century literature ⓘ |
| protagonist | Ambrosio ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | Capuchin monk ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1796 ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | monastery ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Madrid
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| structure | multi-plot narrative ⓘ |
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 Monk Description of subject: The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Monk (1972 film)
subject surface form:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
subject surface form:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
subject surface form:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
subject surface form:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
subject surface form:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
this entity surface form:
The Monk (1796)
this entity surface form:
The Monk (novel)