Night of Thunder
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Night of Thunder is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter featuring ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a deadly conspiracy in the American South.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Night of Thunder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12996231 — 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: Night of Thunder Context triple: [Bob Lee Swagger, appearsInSeries, Night of Thunder]
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A.
Night of Thunder
Night of Thunder is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2014 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket.
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B.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action-thriller film centered on a high-tech military helicopter used for urban surveillance and combat.
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C.
Black Thunder
Black Thunder is a 1936 historical novel by Arna Bontemps that dramatizes Gabriel Prosser’s planned slave revolt in early 19th-century Virginia.
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D.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime comedy film directed by Michael Cimino, co-starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges in a story about a charismatic thief and a young drifter teaming up for a high-stakes heist.
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E.
Whirlwind
Whirlwind is a Marvel Comics supervillain known for his high-speed spinning abilities and frequent battles against the Avengers, particularly Ant-Man and the Wasp.
- 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: Night of Thunder Target entity description: Night of Thunder is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter featuring ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a deadly conspiracy in the American South.
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A.
Night of Thunder
Night of Thunder is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2014 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket.
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B.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action-thriller film centered on a high-tech military helicopter used for urban surveillance and combat.
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C.
Black Thunder
Black Thunder is a 1936 historical novel by Arna Bontemps that dramatizes Gabriel Prosser’s planned slave revolt in early 19th-century Virginia.
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D.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime comedy film directed by Michael Cimino, co-starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges in a story about a charismatic thief and a young drifter teaming up for a high-stakes heist.
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E.
Whirlwind
Whirlwind is a Marvel Comics supervillain known for his high-speed spinning abilities and frequent battles against the Avengers, particularly Ant-Man and the Wasp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Hunter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| followedBy | I, Sniper ⓘ |
| follows | The 47th Samurai ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacterBackground |
Bob Lee Swagger is a Vietnam War veteran
ⓘ
linked to:
Bob Lee Swagger
Bob Lee Swagger is a former United States Marine Corps sniper ⓘ
linked to:
Bob Lee Swagger
|
| hasTheme |
conspiracy
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ crime investigation ⓘ justice ⓘ revenge ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | ex-Marine sniper ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Bob Lee Swagger novels ⓘ |
| plotFocus | deadly conspiracy ⓘ |
| protagonist | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| series | Bob Lee Swagger series ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workType | fiction ⓘ |
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: Night of Thunder Description of subject: Night of Thunder is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter featuring ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a deadly conspiracy in the American South.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.