Adolf Verloc
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Adolf Verloc is a lethargic, morally ambiguous anarchist and secret police informant whose conflicted loyalties drive the plot of Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adolf Verloc canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6898339 — 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: Adolf Verloc Context triple: [The Secret Agent, mainCharacter, Adolf Verloc]
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A.
Kurt Huber
Kurt Huber was a German philosophy and psychology professor best known for his role as a member of the White Rose resistance group against the Nazi regime.
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B.
Viktor Chebrikov
Viktor Chebrikov was a Soviet politician and security official who served as Chairman of the KGB during the 1980s, playing a key role in the late Cold War intelligence apparatus.
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C.
Felix Krull
Felix Krull is the charming, quick-witted con artist and social climber who narrates Thomas Mann’s picaresque novel "The Confessions of Felix Krull."
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D.
Anatoly Virgansky
Anatoly Virgansky is best known as the husband of Irina Virganskaya, the daughter of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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E.
Hans Landa
Hans Landa is the cunning and multilingual SS colonel nicknamed the "Jew Hunter" in Quentin Tarantino's film *Inglourious Basterds*.
- 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: Adolf Verloc Target entity description: Adolf Verloc is a lethargic, morally ambiguous anarchist and secret police informant whose conflicted loyalties drive the plot of Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent."
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A.
Kurt Huber
Kurt Huber was a German philosophy and psychology professor best known for his role as a member of the White Rose resistance group against the Nazi regime.
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B.
Viktor Chebrikov
Viktor Chebrikov was a Soviet politician and security official who served as Chairman of the KGB during the 1980s, playing a key role in the late Cold War intelligence apparatus.
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C.
Felix Krull
Felix Krull is the charming, quick-witted con artist and social climber who narrates Thomas Mann’s picaresque novel "The Confessions of Felix Krull."
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D.
Anatoly Virgansky
Anatoly Virgansky is best known as the husband of Irina Virganskaya, the daughter of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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E.
Hans Landa
Hans Landa is the cunning and multilingual SS colonel nicknamed the "Jew Hunter" in Quentin Tarantino's film *Inglourious Basterds*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
anarchist circle in London
ⓘ
foreign embassy agents ⓘ secret police ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Greenwich Observatory
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
|
| causeOfDeath | killed by Winnie Verloc ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
duplicitous ⓘ lethargic ⓘ morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| coverOccupation |
dealer in shady literature
ⓘ
pornography shopkeeper ⓘ |
| creator | Joseph Conrad ⓘ |
| diesIn | The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| doubleAgentFor |
anarchists
ⓘ
foreign embassy ⓘ police ⓘ |
| employer |
Chief Inspector Heat (as informant)
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linked to:
Chief Inspector Heat
unnamed foreign embassy in London ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Secret Agent (1907)
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linked to:
The Secret Agent
|
| genreOfWork |
political novel
ⓘ
psychological novel ⓘ spy fiction ⓘ |
| homeAddress |
Verlocs’ shop in Soho, London
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linked to:
Soho, London, England
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| involvedIn | Greenwich bombing plot ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernist precursor ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | early depiction of the terrorist as a banal figure ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | anti-hero ⓘ |
| motivation |
financial security
ⓘ
self-preservation ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the central plot of The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | primarily described through third-person narration ⓘ |
| nationality | presumably French-resident foreigner ⓘ |
| occupation |
anarchist
ⓘ
secret police informant ⓘ |
| relationshipToStevie | brother-in-law ⓘ |
| relative | Stevie ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | Stevie’s death ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| setting |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| spouse | Winnie Verloc ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
espionage
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family tragedy ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ political extremism ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Adolf Verloc Description of subject: Adolf Verloc is a lethargic, morally ambiguous anarchist and secret police informant whose conflicted loyalties drive the plot of Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.