The Third Bullet
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The Third Bullet is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter that follows sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a conspiracy behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Third Bullet canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12996234 — 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 Third Bullet Context triple: [Bob Lee Swagger, appearsInSeries, The Third Bullet]
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A.
Bullet in the Fire
"Bullet in the Fire" is a song featured on the album *Arm in Arm* by the German electronic music duo Booka Shade.
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B.
The Bullet
The Bullet is a song by Carrie Underwood from her album "Cry Pretty," noted for its emotional storytelling and country-pop style.
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C.
Just Before the Bullets Fly
Just Before the Bullets Fly is a 1988 Southern rock and blues album by The Gregg Allman Band that showcases Gregg Allman’s soulful vocals and Hammond organ-driven sound.
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D.
The Man Behind the Gun
"The Man Behind the Gun" is a 1953 Western film starring Randolph Scott, with Patrice Wymore in a prominent supporting role.
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E.
The Trigger
The Trigger is a science fiction novel by Michael P. Kube-McDowell (from a story by Arthur C. Clarke) that explores the social and political consequences of a technology capable of detonating or neutralizing explosives at a distance.
- 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 Third Bullet Target entity description: The Third Bullet is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter that follows sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a conspiracy behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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A.
Bullet in the Fire
"Bullet in the Fire" is a song featured on the album *Arm in Arm* by the German electronic music duo Booka Shade.
-
B.
The Bullet
The Bullet is a song by Carrie Underwood from her album "Cry Pretty," noted for its emotional storytelling and country-pop style.
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C.
Just Before the Bullets Fly
Just Before the Bullets Fly is a 1988 Southern rock and blues album by The Gregg Allman Band that showcases Gregg Allman’s soulful vocals and Hammond organ-driven sound.
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D.
The Man Behind the Gun
"The Man Behind the Gun" is a 1953 Western film starring Randolph Scott, with Patrice Wymore in a prominent supporting role.
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E.
The Trigger
The Trigger is a science fiction novel by Michael P. Kube-McDowell (from a story by Arthur C. Clarke) that explores the social and political consequences of a technology capable of detonating or neutralizing explosives at a distance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| 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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| coverArtist | N/A ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
assassination
ⓘ
conspiracy ⓘ historical revisionism ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ sniper warfare ⓘ |
| isbn | 9781451640205 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Bob Lee Swagger novels
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linked to:
Bob Lee Swagger series
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| plotFocus | investigation of JFK assassination conspiracy ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | sniper ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| series | Bob Lee Swagger series ⓘ |
| settingEvent | assassination of John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
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 Third Bullet Description of subject: The Third Bullet is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter that follows sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a conspiracy behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.