The Well (1986 novel)
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The Well (1986 novel) is an Australian gothic psychological novel by Elizabeth Jolley that explores obsession, isolation, and the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination in a rural setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Well (1986 novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10845321 — 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 Well (1986 novel) Context triple: [The Well, isAdaptationOf, The Well (1986 novel)]
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The Well
The Well is a 1997 Australian psychological thriller film in which Miranda Otto gives a critically acclaimed performance as a young woman entangled in a tense, isolating relationship with her guardian.
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B.
The Well
The Well is a film featuring actress Dorothy Patrick, known for her roles in mid-20th-century American cinema.
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C.
The Well
"The Well" is a song by American singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 2005 album *A River Ain't Too Much to Love*, known for its sparse, introspective folk style.
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D.
The Well’s on Fire
The Well’s on Fire is a 2003 studio album by British rock band Procol Harum that blends their classic progressive and baroque rock style with contemporary production.
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E.
The Well and the Lighthouse
"The Well and the Lighthouse" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire from their 2007 album *Neon Bible*, noted for its driving rhythm and dark, atmospheric tone.
- 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 Well (1986 novel) Target entity description: The Well (1986 novel) is an Australian gothic psychological novel by Elizabeth Jolley that explores obsession, isolation, and the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination in a rural setting.
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A.
The Well
The Well is a 1997 Australian psychological thriller film in which Miranda Otto gives a critically acclaimed performance as a young woman entangled in a tense, isolating relationship with her guardian.
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B.
The Well
The Well is a film featuring actress Dorothy Patrick, known for her roles in mid-20th-century American cinema.
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C.
The Well
"The Well" is a song by American singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 2005 album *A River Ain't Too Much to Love*, known for its sparse, introspective folk style.
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D.
The Well’s on Fire
The Well’s on Fire is a 2003 studio album by British rock band Procol Harum that blends their classic progressive and baroque rock style with contemporary production.
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E.
The Well and the Lighthouse
"The Well and the Lighthouse" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire from their 2007 album *Neon Bible*, noted for its driving rhythm and dark, atmospheric tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian novel
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novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| author | Elizabeth Jolley ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| explores |
blurred boundaries between reality and imagination
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emotional dependence ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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Literary fiction ⓘ Psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | female ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle |
darkly comic
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gothic ⓘ psychological realism ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Well ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| nationalityOfAuthor | Australian ⓘ |
| partOf | Australian literature ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| setting | rural Australia ⓘ |
| theme |
female relationships
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isolation ⓘ obsession ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ reality versus imagination ⓘ |
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 Well (1986 novel) Description of subject: The Well (1986 novel) is an Australian gothic psychological novel by Elizabeth Jolley that explores obsession, isolation, and the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination in a rural setting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.