The Passionate Witch
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The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Passionate Witch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7024898 — 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 Passionate Witch Context triple: [I Married a Witch, basedOn, The Passionate Witch]
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A.
Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld series, following the Lancre witches as they travel abroad to thwart a manipulative fairy godmother and disrupt predestined stories.
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B.
The Witch's Familiar
"The Witch's Familiar" is a 2015 Doctor Who television episode featuring the Twelfth Doctor, Missy, and Clara in a confrontation with the Daleks and a dying Davros.
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C.
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
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D.
Season of the Witch
"Season of the Witch" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-rock song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his most influential and enduring tracks.
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E.
The Satanic Witch
The Satanic Witch is a 1970s occult and social manipulation manual by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, focusing on psychological tactics and “lesser magic” aimed primarily at women.
- 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 Passionate Witch Target entity description: The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
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A.
Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld series, following the Lancre witches as they travel abroad to thwart a manipulative fairy godmother and disrupt predestined stories.
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B.
The Witch's Familiar
"The Witch's Familiar" is a 2015 Doctor Who television episode featuring the Twelfth Doctor, Missy, and Clara in a confrontation with the Daleks and a dying Davros.
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C.
Season of the Witch
"Season of the Witch" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-rock song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his most influential and enduring tracks.
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D.
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
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E.
The Satanic Witch
The Satanic Witch is a 1970s occult and social manipulation manual by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, focusing on psychological tactics and “lesser magic” aimed primarily at women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationTypeOf | I Married a Witch ⓘ |
| author | Thorne Smith ⓘ |
| authorDeathBeforeCompletion | Thorne Smith ⓘ |
| completedBy |
Norman H. Matson
ⓘ
linked to:
Norman Matson
|
| completedPosthumously | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
comic fiction
ⓘ
fantasy fiction ⓘ |
| hasElement |
magic
ⓘ
supernatural romance ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| hasTheme | romantic relationships between witch and mortal man ⓘ |
| hasTone | humorous ⓘ |
| influenced | romantic witch comedies in film ⓘ |
| inspired | I Married a Witch ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | mischievous witch ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| notableFor | inspiring the film I Married a Witch ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumously completed work of Thorne Smith ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| settingType | contemporary (to time of writing) ⓘ |
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 Passionate Witch Description of subject: The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.