Marquis de Carabas
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Marquis de Carabas is a cunning, enigmatic trickster and fixer who navigates the dangerous underworld of London Below in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marquis de Carabas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875353 — 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: Marquis de Carabas Context triple: [Neverwhere, hasCharacter, Marquis de Carabas]
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A.
Scaramouche
Scaramouche is a 1923 silent swashbuckler film, based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel, in which Ramon Novarro stars as a French nobleman turned revolutionary and master swordsman during the French Revolution.
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B.
Vizzini
Vizzini is a cunning but overconfident Sicilian criminal mastermind and kidnapper in the fantasy adventure film and novel "The Princess Bride."
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C.
Mr. Boncassen
Mr. Boncassen is a scholarly American gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, known as the learned and socially unpretentious father of Isabel Boncassen.
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D.
Yorick Le Saux
Yorick Le Saux is a French cinematographer known for his visually striking, atmospheric work on art-house and independent films.
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E.
Marquis
Marquis is a hereditary noble rank in various European and Asian aristocratic systems, traditionally positioned between a count/earl and a duke and often associated with governance of border territories.
- 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: Marquis de Carabas Target entity description: Marquis de Carabas is a cunning, enigmatic trickster and fixer who navigates the dangerous underworld of London Below in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
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A.
Scaramouche
Scaramouche is a 1923 silent swashbuckler film, based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel, in which Ramon Novarro stars as a French nobleman turned revolutionary and master swordsman during the French Revolution.
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B.
Vizzini
Vizzini is a cunning but overconfident Sicilian criminal mastermind and kidnapper in the fantasy adventure film and novel "The Princess Bride."
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C.
Mr. Boncassen
Mr. Boncassen is a scholarly American gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, known as the learned and socially unpretentious father of Isabel Boncassen.
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D.
Yorick Le Saux
Yorick Le Saux is a French cinematographer known for his visually striking, atmospheric work on art-house and independent films.
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E.
Marquis
Marquis is a hereditary noble rank in various European and Asian aristocratic systems, traditionally positioned between a count/earl and a duke and often associated with governance of border territories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ trickster archetype ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Neverwhere
NERFINISHED
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Neverwhere (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Neverwhere (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ Neverwhere (radio drama) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Croup and Vandemar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Door ⓘ Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ Islington NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Mayhew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Marquis de Carabas from Puss in Boots ⓘ |
| characterRole |
antihero
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supporting character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Neil Gaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Neverwhere (1996 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | urban fantasy ⓘ |
| loyalty | primarily to his own interests ⓘ |
| medium |
prose fiction
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radio drama ⓘ television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for plot developments
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trickster ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
bargaining skill
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information brokering ⓘ navigation of London Below ⓘ survival in dangerous environments ⓘ |
| occupation |
fixer
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guide ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
charming
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cunning ⓘ enigmatic ⓘ manipulative ⓘ opportunistic ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| residence | London Below NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | London Below NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
debt and obligation
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deception ⓘ identity ⓘ |
| universe | Neverwhere universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Marquis de Carabas Description of subject: Marquis de Carabas is a cunning, enigmatic trickster and fixer who navigates the dangerous underworld of London Below in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.