Walter Gilman
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Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Gilman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8693012 — 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: Walter Gilman Context triple: [The Dreams in the Witch House, protagonist, Walter Gilman]
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A.
Frank Holbrook
Frank Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is being recorded as a notable bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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B.
George Holbrook
George Holbrook was an American clockmaker and bell founder known for producing church bells and tower clocks in the 19th century.
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C.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- 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: Walter Gilman Target entity description: Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
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A.
Frank Holbrook
Frank Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is being recorded as a notable bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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B.
George Holbrook
George Holbrook was an American clockmaker and bell founder known for producing church bells and tower clocks in the 19th century.
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C.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Miskatonic University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Dreams in the Witch House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection | Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation | Arkham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization | Miskatonic University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brown Jenkin
NERFINISHED
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Keziah Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ Nyarlathotep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Arkham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | mysterious supernatural forces ⓘ |
| diesIn | The Dreams in the Witch House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| experiences |
nightmares
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sleepwalking ⓘ strange dreams in the Witch House ⓘ visions of other dimensions ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
folklore
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higher-dimensional space ⓘ mathematics ⓘ non-Euclidean geometry ⓘ occultism ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Weird Tales, July 1933 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
cosmic horror
ⓘ
weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist |
Brown Jenkin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keziah Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
intersection of science and the occult
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madness induced by cosmic knowledge ⓘ non-Euclidean geometry and higher dimensions ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century American horror ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement with witchcraft lore in Arkham
ⓘ
occult studies at Miskatonic University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| residence | Witch House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roomLocatedIn | attic room of the Witch House ⓘ |
| setInUniverse | Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universityAttended | Miskatonic University 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: Walter Gilman Description of subject: Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.