Orlac
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Orlac is a surname most notably associated with the fictional pianist protagonist in the classic horror story and film adaptations "The Hands of Orlac."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Orlac canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9317179 — 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: Orlac Context triple: [Yvonne Orlac, familyName, Orlac]
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A.
Eto Demerzel
Eto Demerzel is a central character in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe, secretly the humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw who manipulates galactic politics and history behind the scenes.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Auberon
Auberon is a masculine given name most notably borne by English journalist and satirist Auberon Waugh.
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D.
Elviro
Elviro is a comic servant character from George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse," known for his humorous disguises and light-hearted scenes.
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E.
Talthybius
Talthybius is a herald of the Greek army in Greek mythology, best known from Euripides’ tragedies where he delivers orders and news to captive Trojan 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: Orlac Target entity description: Orlac is a surname most notably associated with the fictional pianist protagonist in the classic horror story and film adaptations "The Hands of Orlac."
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A.
Eto Demerzel
Eto Demerzel is a central character in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe, secretly the humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw who manipulates galactic politics and history behind the scenes.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Auberon
Auberon is a masculine given name most notably borne by English journalist and satirist Auberon Waugh.
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D.
Elviro
Elviro is a comic servant character from George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse," known for his humorous disguises and light-hearted scenes.
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E.
Talthybius
Talthybius is a herald of the Greek army in Greek mythology, best known from Euripides’ tragedies where he delivers orders and news to captive Trojan women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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horror film ⓘ horror novel ⓘ silent horror film ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Hands of Orlac ⓘ |
| author | Maurice Renard ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Hands of Orlac
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The Hands of Orlac ⓘ The Hands of Orlac ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Austria
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France ⓘ Germany ⓘ |
| familyName |
Orlac
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Orlac ⓘ |
| fictionalBearer | Paul Orlac ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
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psychological horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Mad Love (1935 film)
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The Hands of Orlac (1924 film) ⓘ The Hands of Orlac (1960 film) ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Paul Orlac
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Paul Orlac ⓘ Stephen Orlac ⓘ Stephen Orlac ⓘ |
| mainCharacterSurname |
Orlac
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Orlac ⓘ |
| notablyAssociatedWith | fictional pianist protagonist in The Hands of Orlac ⓘ |
| notablyUsedFor | surname of main character in The Hands of Orlac adaptations ⓘ |
| occupation | pianist ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| usedIn | The Hands of Orlac ⓘ |
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: Orlac Description of subject: Orlac is a surname most notably associated with the fictional pianist protagonist in the classic horror story and film adaptations "The Hands of Orlac."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.