Q & A
E243947
Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup that follows a poor Indian waiter who unexpectedly wins a fortune on a quiz show, inspiring the film Slumdog Millionaire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Q & A canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2214981 — 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: Q & A Context triple: [Slumdog Millionaire, basedOn, Q & A]
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A.
Q’s
Q’s is the nickname commonly used for the former American Basketball Association team the San Diego Conquistadors.
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B.
Some Answered Questions
Some Answered Questions is a central Bahá'í text consisting of recorded talks by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá that explain key spiritual, philosophical, and scriptural themes of the Bahá'í Faith.
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C.
Q
The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
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D.
Q
Q is a recurring comedic character from the James Bond film series, known as the eccentric head of MI6's gadget and technology division.
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E.
QA
QA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Qatar for international standardization and identification.
- 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: Q & A Target entity description: Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup that follows a poor Indian waiter who unexpectedly wins a fortune on a quiz show, inspiring the film Slumdog Millionaire.
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A.
Q’s
Q’s is the nickname commonly used for the former American Basketball Association team the San Diego Conquistadors.
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B.
Some Answered Questions
Some Answered Questions is a central Bahá'í text consisting of recorded talks by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá that explain key spiritual, philosophical, and scriptural themes of the Bahá'í Faith.
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C.
Q
The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
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D.
Q
Q is a recurring comedic character from the James Bond film series, known as the eccentric head of MI6's gadget and technology division.
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E.
QA
QA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Qatar for international standardization and identification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Slumdog Millionaire ⓘ |
| alternateTitleOfAdaptedEdition |
Slumdog Millionaire
ⓘ
surface form:
Slumdog Millionaire (tie-in edition)
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| author | Vikas Swarup ⓘ |
| awardConnection | source material for Academy Award–winning film Slumdog Millionaire ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| depicts |
Indian entertainment industry
ⓘ
Indian legal system ⓘ slums of Mumbai ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationCoDirector | Loveleen Tandan ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationCountryOfOrigin |
India
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Danny Boyle ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationTitle | Slumdog Millionaire ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
drama ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| hasISBN |
9780385514040 (US edition)
ⓘ
9780385608138 (UK hardback) ⓘ 9780747582117 (UK paperback) ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Slumdog Millionaire ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jamal Malik
ⓘ
surface form:
Ram Mohammad Thomas
|
| mediumOfAdaptation | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotElement |
game show cheating accusation
ⓘ
interrogation by police ⓘ orphan protagonist ⓘ quiz show ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | waiter ⓘ |
| protagonistSocioeconomicStatus | poor ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| publisher |
Doubleday
ⓘ
surface form:
Doubleday (US edition)
Transworld Publishers ⓘ
surface form:
Transworld Publishers (UK edition)
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| setting |
India
ⓘ
Mumbai ⓘ |
| structure | each chapter linked to a quiz question ⓘ |
| theme |
child exploitation
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ fate and destiny ⓘ love ⓘ poverty ⓘ religious diversity ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
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: Q & A Description of subject: Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup that follows a poor Indian waiter who unexpectedly wins a fortune on a quiz show, inspiring the film Slumdog Millionaire.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Slumdog Millionaire