The Broker
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The Broker is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a pardoned Washington power broker entangled in international espionage and political intrigue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Broker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2188818 — 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 Broker Context triple: [John Grisham, notableWork, The Broker]
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A.
The Client
"The Client" is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in a tense courtroom and mob drama.
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B.
Rainmaker
"Rainmaker" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2020 studio album "Letter to You."
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C.
Relayer
Relayer is a 1974 progressive rock album by the English band Yes, noted for its complex compositions and jazz-fusion influences.
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D.
The Traders
"The Traders" is a science fiction story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, focusing on the role of independent merchants in spreading the influence of the Foundation through trade and technology.
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E.
The Bank
The Bank is a popular nickname for Citizens Bank Park, the home stadium of Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies.
- 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 Broker Target entity description: The Broker is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a pardoned Washington power broker entangled in international espionage and political intrigue.
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A.
The Client
"The Client" is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in a tense courtroom and mob drama.
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B.
Rainmaker
"Rainmaker" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2020 studio album "Letter to You."
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C.
Relayer
Relayer is a 1974 progressive rock album by the English band Yes, noted for its complex compositions and jazz-fusion influences.
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D.
The Traders
"The Traders" is a science fiction story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, focusing on the role of independent merchants in spreading the influence of the Foundation through trade and technology.
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E.
The Bank
The Bank is a popular nickname for Citizens Bank Park, the home stadium of Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal thriller
ⓘ
novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | John Grisham ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | The Innocent Man ⓘ |
| genre |
legal thriller
ⓘ
political thriller ⓘ |
| hasAwardStatus | bestseller ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Francesca
ⓘ
Joel Backman ⓘ Luigi ⓘ Neal Backman ⓘ Rudolph ⓘ Teddy Maynard ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Chip Kidd ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
abuse of power
ⓘ
government secrecy ⓘ political corruption ⓘ redemption ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0385510454 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780385510455 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySeries | standalone novel ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Joel Backman ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of CIA manipulation of a pardoned lobbyist ⓘ |
| pageCount | 368 ⓘ |
| plotElement |
CIA surveillance
ⓘ
international espionage ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ presidential pardon ⓘ satellite technology secrets ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Last Juror ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
power broker ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2005-01-11 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | early 21st century ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
Italy
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| settingLocation |
Bologna
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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 Broker Description of subject: The Broker is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a pardoned Washington power broker entangled in international espionage and political intrigue.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.