Darkness, Take My Hand
E272332
Darkness, Take My Hand is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they confront a series of brutal, seemingly connected murders from their past.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Darkness, Take My Hand canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2490348 — 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: Darkness, Take My Hand Context triple: [Dennis Lehane, notableWork, Darkness, Take My Hand]
-
A.
Give Up the Ghost
"Give Up the Ghost" is a 2009 studio album by American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile that blends folk, rock, and Americana influences and helped solidify her critical acclaim.
-
B.
In the Still of the Night
"In the Still of the Night" is a popular 1937 American standard written by Cole Porter for the film "Rosalie," later widely recorded by leading vocalists and big bands.
-
C.
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense thriller film about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
-
D.
Deep in the Night
"Deep in the Night" is a 1978 soul and R&B album by legendary American singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a mix of contemporary and classic styles.
-
E.
Hymns to the Night
Hymns to the Night is a seminal cycle of mystical and lyrical prose-poems by the German Romantic writer Novalis, exploring themes of death, love, and spiritual transcendence.
- 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: Darkness, Take My Hand Target entity description: Darkness, Take My Hand is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they confront a series of brutal, seemingly connected murders from their past.
-
A.
Give Up the Ghost
"Give Up the Ghost" is a 2009 studio album by American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile that blends folk, rock, and Americana influences and helped solidify her critical acclaim.
-
B.
In the Still of the Night
"In the Still of the Night" is a popular 1937 American standard written by Cole Porter for the film "Rosalie," later widely recorded by leading vocalists and big bands.
-
C.
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense thriller film about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
-
D.
Deep in the Night
"Deep in the Night" is a 1978 soul and R&B album by legendary American singer Etta James, showcasing her powerful vocals in a mix of contemporary and classic styles.
-
E.
Hymns to the Night
Hymns to the Night is a seminal cycle of mystical and lyrical prose-poems by the German Romantic writer Novalis, exploring themes of death, love, and spiritual transcendence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Dennis Lehane ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Chip Kidd ⓘ |
| features | private investigators ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Bubba Rogowski ⓘ |
| follows | A Drink Before the War ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasForm | novel in a series ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
past crimes
ⓘ
psychological trauma ⓘ revenge ⓘ serial murder ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
confronting the past
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ friendship and loyalty ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ urban crime ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
ⓘ
gritty ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Angie Gennaro
ⓘ
surface form:
Angela Gennaro
Patrick Kenzie in Gone Baby Gone ⓘ
surface form:
Patrick Kenzie
|
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
graphic depictions of violence
ⓘ
psychological depth of characters ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Kenzie and Gennaro series ⓘ |
| placeInSeries | second book in the Kenzie and Gennaro series ⓘ |
| protagonistNarrator |
Patrick Kenzie in Gone Baby Gone
ⓘ
surface form:
Patrick Kenzie
|
| publicationYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| publisher | William Morrow and Company ⓘ |
| setIn |
Boston
ⓘ
Dorchester neighborhood of Boston ⓘ
surface form:
Dorchester, Boston
|
| timePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
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: Darkness, Take My Hand Description of subject: Darkness, Take My Hand is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they confront a series of brutal, seemingly connected murders from their past.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.