Karla Trilogy
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The Karla Trilogy is a celebrated series of Cold War espionage novels by John le Carré that follows British intelligence officer George Smiley’s intricate battle of wits with his Soviet counterpart, Karla.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karla Trilogy canonical | 8 |
| Smiley versus Karla trilogy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217691 — 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: Karla Trilogy Context triple: [George Smiley, appearsIn, Karla Trilogy]
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A.
The Captive
"The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
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B.
The Testament
The Testament is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a complex battle over a billionaire’s surprising will, set against backdrops ranging from corporate boardrooms to the Brazilian Pantanal.
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C.
The Testament
The Testament is a novel by Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel that explores memory, faith, and moral responsibility in the aftermath of atrocity.
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D.
The Incorruptible
The Incorruptible was the sobriquet of Maximilien Robespierre, the influential and austere leader of the French Revolution’s radical phase and a key figure in the Reign of Terror.
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E.
La Tortura
"La Tortura" is a 2005 Latin pop and reggaeton-influenced hit by Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz, known for its innovative music video and major international chart success.
- 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: Karla Trilogy Target entity description: The Karla Trilogy is a celebrated series of Cold War espionage novels by John le Carré that follows British intelligence officer George Smiley’s intricate battle of wits with his Soviet counterpart, Karla.
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A.
The Captive
"The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
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B.
The Testament
The Testament is a novel by Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel that explores memory, faith, and moral responsibility in the aftermath of atrocity.
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C.
The Testament
The Testament is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a complex battle over a billionaire’s surprising will, set against backdrops ranging from corporate boardrooms to the Brazilian Pantanal.
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D.
The Incorruptible
The Incorruptible was the sobriquet of Maximilien Robespierre, the influential and austere leader of the French Revolution’s radical phase and a key figure in the Reign of Terror.
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E.
La Tortura
"La Tortura" is a 2005 Latin pop and reggaeton-influenced hit by Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz, known for its innovative music video and major international chart success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Karla Trilogy Description of subject: The Karla Trilogy is a celebrated series of Cold War espionage novels by John le Carré that follows British intelligence officer George Smiley’s intricate battle of wits with his Soviet counterpart, Karla.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Smiley’s People
subject surface form:
Smiley’s People
subject surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
this entity surface form:
Smiley versus Karla trilogy