Nick Shadow
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Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nick Shadow canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317154 — 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: Nick Shadow Context triple: [The Rake's Progress, mainCharacter, Nick Shadow]
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A.
Jim Nightshade
Jim Nightshade is a dark-haired, impulsive, and thrill-seeking boy whose fascination with danger contrasts with his friend Will’s caution in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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B.
Nick Nack
Nick Nack is the diminutive, cunning henchman and butler to villain Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun."
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C.
Mr. Dark
Mr. Dark is the sinister, enigmatic leader of a traveling carnival who preys on human desires and fears in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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D.
Raynathan Skuggs
Raynathan Skuggs is the central protagonist of the crime drama film "Sugar Hill," around whom the story’s underworld conflicts and personal struggles revolve.
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E.
Mancy Carr
Mancy Carr was a jazz musician known for performing on the classic Louis Armstrong recording "West End Blues."
- 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: Nick Shadow Target entity description: Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
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A.
Jim Nightshade
Jim Nightshade is a dark-haired, impulsive, and thrill-seeking boy whose fascination with danger contrasts with his friend Will’s caution in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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B.
Nick Nack
Nick Nack is the diminutive, cunning henchman and butler to villain Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun."
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C.
Mr. Dark
Mr. Dark is the sinister, enigmatic leader of a traveling carnival who preys on human desires and fears in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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D.
Raynathan Skuggs
Raynathan Skuggs is the central protagonist of the crime drama film "Sugar Hill," around whom the story’s underworld conflicts and personal struggles revolve.
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E.
Mancy Carr
Mancy Carr was a jazz musician known for performing on the classic Louis Armstrong recording "West End Blues."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
demonic tempter ⓘ fictional character ⓘ opera character ⓘ |
| appearsAs |
manservant
ⓘ
mysterious stranger ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Rake’s Progress
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rake's Progress
|
| associatedWithGenre | neoclassical opera ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
damnation
ⓘ
free will ⓘ moral choice ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mephistopheles archetype ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Chester Kallman
ⓘ
Igor Stravinsky ⓘ W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| demands | Tom Rakewell’s soul ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century opera ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
opera The Rake’s Progress
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rake's Progress
|
| hasAllegiance | the Devil ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | servant to Tom Rakewell ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
18th-century moral tales
ⓘ
Faust legend ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leadsTo | Tom Rakewell’s ruin ⓘ |
| medium | opera ⓘ |
| nature | demonic ⓘ |
| offers |
idleness
ⓘ
pleasure ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
card game for Tom’s soul
ⓘ
graveyard scene in The Rake’s Progress ⓘ |
| relationshipToTomRakewell |
mastermind of downfall
ⓘ
tempter ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist of Tom Rakewell ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Faustian bargain
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ moral decay ⓘ |
| tempts | Tom Rakewell ⓘ |
| trueIdentity | devil’s agent ⓘ |
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: Nick Shadow Description of subject: Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.