The Shadow
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The Shadow is a dark, formless embodiment of fear and the destructive side of human nature that the young wizard Ged must confront and reconcile with in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Shadow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16035386 — 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 Shadow Context triple: [A Wizard of Earthsea, character, The Shadow]
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A.
The Shadow
The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
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B.
The Shadow
The Shadow is a 1994 neo-noir superhero film, based on the classic pulp character, that blends crime, mystery, and supernatural elements in a stylized 1930s New York setting.
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C.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
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D.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
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E.
Der Schattenmann
Der Schattenmann is a German television miniseries that continues the story begun in "Der große Bellheim," focusing on intrigue and power struggles in the world of business and politics.
- 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 Shadow Target entity description: The Shadow is a dark, formless embodiment of fear and the destructive side of human nature that the young wizard Ged must confront and reconcile with in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea."
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A.
The Shadow
The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
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B.
The Shadow
The Shadow is a 1994 neo-noir superhero film, based on the classic pulp character, that blends crime, mystery, and supernatural elements in a stylized 1930s New York setting.
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C.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
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D.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
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E.
Der Schattenmann
Der Schattenmann is a German television miniseries that continues the story begun in "Der große Bellheim," focusing on intrigue and power struggles in the world of business and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.