Woland
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Woland is a mysterious, devil-like figure who leads a retinue of supernatural beings and embodies chaos and moral reckoning in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woland canonical | 7 |
| Woland's retinue | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10108317 — 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: Woland Context triple: [The Master and Margarita, mainCharacter, Woland]
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A.
Dr. Nefario
Dr. Nefario is the elderly, gadget-inventing mad scientist who serves as Gru’s loyal but eccentric assistant in the Despicable Me franchise.
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B.
Mephisto Pheles
Mephisto Pheles is a powerful, enigmatic demon and high-ranking exorcist who serves as a key manipulator and overseer of events in the manga and anime series Blue Exorcist.
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C.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a mysterious, allegorical deity in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s drama "Prometheus Unbound," often interpreted as a symbol of hidden, transformative power that overturns tyranny.
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D.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a terrifying predatory monster from the Upside Down in the TV series "Stranger Things," known for its humanoid body and flower-like, tooth-filled head.
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E.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
- 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: Woland Target entity description: Woland is a mysterious, devil-like figure who leads a retinue of supernatural beings and embodies chaos and moral reckoning in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita."
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A.
Dr. Nefario
Dr. Nefario is the elderly, gadget-inventing mad scientist who serves as Gru’s loyal but eccentric assistant in the Despicable Me franchise.
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B.
Mephisto Pheles
Mephisto Pheles is a powerful, enigmatic demon and high-ranking exorcist who serves as a key manipulator and overseer of events in the manga and anime series Blue Exorcist.
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C.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a mysterious, allegorical deity in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s drama "Prometheus Unbound," often interpreted as a symbol of hidden, transformative power that overturns tyranny.
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D.
Demogorgon
Demogorgon is a terrifying predatory monster from the Upside Down in the TV series "Stranger Things," known for its humanoid body and flower-like, tooth-filled head.
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E.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
devil figure
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ supernatural being ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Master and Margarita ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
magic realism
ⓘ
satirical novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Satan
ⓘ
black magic ⓘ chaos ⓘ moral reckoning ⓘ occultism ⓘ the Devil ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Soviet atheism
ⓘ
bureaucratic hypocrisy ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mikhail Bulgakov ⓘ |
| embodies |
moral ambiguity
ⓘ
retribution ⓘ supernatural justice ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| grants | Margarita’s wish ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Satan
ⓘ
the Devil ⓘ |
| hasCompanion |
Abaddon
ⓘ
Azazello ⓘ Behemoth ⓘ Hella ⓘ Koroviev ⓘ |
| hasMoralFunction |
exposes human vices
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punishes hypocrisy ⓘ |
| hasTitle | foreign professor ⓘ |
| influences | fates of the Master and Margarita ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| leads | retinue of supernatural beings ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | foreign ⓘ |
| occupation | magician ⓘ |
| performs | magic show at the Variety Theatre ⓘ |
| presidesOver | Satan’s Ball ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonist
ⓘ
catalyst of events ⓘ central character in The Master and Margarita ⓘ |
| setIn | Moscow in the 1930s ⓘ |
| speaksAbout | good and evil ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
metaphysical freedom
ⓘ
the intrusion of the supernatural into everyday life ⓘ |
| tests |
Margarita
ⓘ
the Master ⓘ |
| timePeriodInStory | Soviet era ⓘ |
| visits | Moscow ⓘ |
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: Woland Description of subject: Woland is a mysterious, devil-like figure who leads a retinue of supernatural beings and embodies chaos and moral reckoning in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.