The Cabal
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The Cabal is a powerful clandestine organization in The Blacklist that secretly manipulates global politics, intelligence agencies, and criminal networks to serve its own hidden agenda.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9016619 — 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 Cabal Context triple: [The Blacklist fictional universe, centralOrganization, The Cabal]
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A.
The Accursed
The Accursed is a Gothic historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates that blends supernatural horror with social and political commentary in early 20th-century Princeton, New Jersey.
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B.
The Veil
The Veil is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by Phil Joanou, centered on the dark legacy of a cult’s mass suicide and its lone survivor.
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C.
The Cursed Ones
The Cursed Ones is a Ghanaian-Nigerian drama film that explores themes of superstition, injustice, and religious exploitation in a rural African community.
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D.
Book of the Sign
Book of the Sign is the English title of the medieval Hebrew work "Sefer ha-Ot," a Jewish mystical and ethical text traditionally attributed to Rabbi Judah the Pious.
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E.
The Enshrouded One
The Enshrouded One is a title referring to the Prophet Muhammad in a state of being wrapped in his garments, as addressed at the beginning of Surah Al-Muzzammil in the Qur’an.
- 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 Cabal Target entity description: The Cabal is a powerful clandestine organization in The Blacklist that secretly manipulates global politics, intelligence agencies, and criminal networks to serve its own hidden agenda.
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A.
The Accursed
The Accursed is a Gothic historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates that blends supernatural horror with social and political commentary in early 20th-century Princeton, New Jersey.
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B.
The Veil
The Veil is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by Phil Joanou, centered on the dark legacy of a cult’s mass suicide and its lone survivor.
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C.
The Cursed Ones
The Cursed Ones is a Ghanaian-Nigerian drama film that explores themes of superstition, injustice, and religious exploitation in a rural African community.
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D.
Book of the Sign
Book of the Sign is the English title of the medieval Hebrew work "Sefer ha-Ot," a Jewish mystical and ethical text traditionally attributed to Rabbi Judah the Pious.
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E.
The Enshrouded One
The Enshrouded One is a title referring to the Prophet Muhammad in a state of being wrapped in his garments, as addressed at the beginning of Surah Al-Muzzammil in the Qur’an.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist group
ⓘ
fictional secret organization ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Blacklist
ⓘ
The Blacklist (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Blacklist
|
| associatedWith |
Central Intelligence Agency (fictional depiction)
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Council (fictional depiction) ⓘ
linked to:
National Security Council (fictional)
United States government (fictional depiction) ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | multiple countries ⓘ |
| controls |
covert paramilitary assets
ⓘ
rogue intelligence operations ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jon Bokenkamp ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Elizabeth Keen
ⓘ
Raymond Reddington ⓘ
linked to:
Raymond "Red" Reddington
|
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
spy thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
clandestine
ⓘ
conspiratorial ⓘ covert ⓘ politically influential ⓘ powerful ⓘ ruthless ⓘ transnational ⓘ |
| involves |
corporate leaders
ⓘ
corrupt politicians ⓘ intelligence officials ⓘ |
| manipulates |
criminal networks
ⓘ
global politics ⓘ intelligence agencies ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Alan Fitch
ⓘ
Laurel Hitchin ⓘ Peter Kotsiopulos ⓘ |
| objective |
control world events
ⓘ
maintain power ⓘ protect its members ⓘ |
| operatesInFictionalUniverse | The Blacklist universe ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
NBC's The Blacklist franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
The Blacklist fictional universe
|
| plotInvolvement |
cover up international crimes
ⓘ
frame Raymond Reddington ⓘ orchestrate political scandals ⓘ suppress damaging information ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
primary antagonist
ⓘ
shadow government ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
assassination
ⓘ
blackmail ⓘ co-opting state institutions ⓘ disinformation ⓘ political manipulation ⓘ |
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 Cabal Description of subject: The Cabal is a powerful clandestine organization in The Blacklist that secretly manipulates global politics, intelligence agencies, and criminal networks to serve its own hidden agenda.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Cabal