Victor Canning novel "The Rainbird Pattern" (indirectly, via film adaptation)
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"The Rainbird Pattern" is a 1972 crime thriller novel by Victor Canning, best known today as the source material—via its adaptation "Family Plot"—for Alfred Hitchcock’s final film.
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| Victor Canning novel "The Rainbird Pattern" (indirectly, via film adaptation) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15904220 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Victor Canning novel "The Rainbird Pattern" (indirectly, via film adaptation) Context triple: [Blanche Tyler, workBasedOn, Victor Canning novel "The Rainbird Pattern" (indirectly, via film adaptation)]
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Josephine Tey’s novel "The Daughter of Time"
Josephine Tey’s novel "The Daughter of Time" is a classic historical mystery in which a bedridden detective reexamines the evidence surrounding Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, challenging the traditional account of their murders.
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B.
Jasper Carrott's The Detectives
Jasper Carrott's The Detectives is a British television sitcom that parodies police dramas, starring comedian Jasper Carrott as an inept detective.
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novel "Mist Over Pendle"
"Mist Over Pendle" is a historical novel that vividly reimagines the infamous 17th-century Pendle witch trials through richly drawn characters and atmospheric storytelling.
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D.
The Barchester Chronicles (BBC television serial)
The Barchester Chronicles is a BBC television drama serial that adapts Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, depicting the social and clerical intrigues of a 19th-century English cathedral town.
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E.
BBC drama "The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe"
"The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe" is a BBC drama series that dramatizes the real-life insurance fraud and faked death plot orchestrated by British ex-teacher and prison officer John Darwin and his wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Victor Canning novel "The Rainbird Pattern" (indirectly, via film adaptation) Target entity description: "The Rainbird Pattern" is a 1972 crime thriller novel by Victor Canning, best known today as the source material—via its adaptation "Family Plot"—for Alfred Hitchcock’s final film.
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A.
Josephine Tey’s novel "The Daughter of Time"
Josephine Tey’s novel "The Daughter of Time" is a classic historical mystery in which a bedridden detective reexamines the evidence surrounding Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, challenging the traditional account of their murders.
-
B.
Jasper Carrott's The Detectives
Jasper Carrott's The Detectives is a British television sitcom that parodies police dramas, starring comedian Jasper Carrott as an inept detective.
-
C.
novel "Mist Over Pendle"
"Mist Over Pendle" is a historical novel that vividly reimagines the infamous 17th-century Pendle witch trials through richly drawn characters and atmospheric storytelling.
-
D.
The Barchester Chronicles (BBC television serial)
The Barchester Chronicles is a BBC television drama serial that adapts Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, depicting the social and clerical intrigues of a 19th-century English cathedral town.
-
E.
BBC drama "The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe"
"The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe" is a BBC drama series that dramatizes the real-life insurance fraud and faked death plot orchestrated by British ex-teacher and prison officer John Darwin and his wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Blanche Tyler
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workBasedOn
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Victor Canning novel "The Rainbird Pattern" (indirectly, via film adaptation)
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