The Graveyard Book
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The Graveyard Book is a darkly whimsical children's fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman about an orphaned boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Graveyard Book canonical | 2 |
| The Graveyard Book graphic novel | 1 |
| The Graveyard Book stage adaptation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1379354 — 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 Graveyard Book Context triple: [Neil Gaiman, notableWork, The Graveyard Book]
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A.
Neverwhere
Neverwhere is a dark urban fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that explores a hidden, magical underworld beneath the streets of London.
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B.
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die is a memoir recounting David Nyuol Vincent’s harrowing experiences as a child refugee from the Sudanese civil war and his eventual resettlement in Australia.
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C.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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D.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, about a man who can bring characters from books to life by reading aloud.
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E.
The Devil’s Backbone
The Devil’s Backbone is a 2001 Spanish gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro that blends ghost story elements with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War.
- 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 Graveyard Book Target entity description: The Graveyard Book is a darkly whimsical children's fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman about an orphaned boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
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A.
Neverwhere
Neverwhere is a dark urban fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that explores a hidden, magical underworld beneath the streets of London.
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B.
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die is a memoir recounting David Nyuol Vincent’s harrowing experiences as a child refugee from the Sudanese civil war and his eventual resettlement in Australia.
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C.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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D.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, about a man who can bring characters from books to life by reading aloud.
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E.
The Devil’s Backbone
The Devil’s Backbone is a 2001 Spanish gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro that blends ghost story elements with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's novel
ⓘ
dark fantasy novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| awarded |
Carnegie Medal
ⓘ
Hugo Award for Best Novel ⓘ Locus Award ⓘ
surface form:
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book
Newbery Medal ⓘ |
| containsElement |
ghosts
ⓘ
supernatural creatures ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Dave McKean ⓘ |
| genre |
children's fantasy
ⓘ
dark fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Graveyard Book
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Graveyard Book graphic novel
The Graveyard Book self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Graveyard Book stage adaptation
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| hasCharacter |
Miss Lupescu
ⓘ
Scarlett Amber Perkins ⓘ Silas ⓘ The Man Jack ⓘ |
| hasIllustrator |
Chris Riddell
ⓘ
Dave McKean ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | The Jungle Book ⓘ |
| isbn | 978-0-06-053092-1 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nobody Owens ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | winning both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal ⓘ |
| pages | 312 ⓘ |
| protagonist | Nobody Owens ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing
ⓘ
HarperCollins ⓘ |
| setting |
English town
ⓘ
graveyard ⓘ |
| structure | eight chapters ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
| theme |
belonging
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death ⓘ family ⓘ growing up ⓘ identity ⓘ |
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 Graveyard Book Description of subject: The Graveyard Book is a darkly whimsical children's fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman about an orphaned boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Graveyard Book graphic novel
this entity surface form:
The Graveyard Book stage adaptation