Bad Company
E388538
Bad Company is a fast-paced thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives entangled in a high-stakes conspiracy involving wartime secrets and modern power struggles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Company canonical | 1 |
| Bad Company (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3794181 — 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: Bad Company Context triple: [Jack Higgins, notableWork, Bad Company]
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A.
Bad Company
"Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
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B.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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C.
REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
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D.
Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep is a famously obsequious and manipulative clerk-turned-villain in Charles Dickens’s novel "David Copperfield."
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E.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
- 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: Bad Company Target entity description: Bad Company is a fast-paced thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives entangled in a high-stakes conspiracy involving wartime secrets and modern power struggles.
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A.
Bad Company
"Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
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B.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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C.
REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
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D.
Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep is a famously obsequious and manipulative clerk-turned-villain in Charles Dickens’s novel "David Copperfield."
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E.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | Jack Higgins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| features |
covert operatives
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high-stakes conspiracy ⓘ modern power struggles ⓘ wartime secrets ⓘ |
| genre |
spy fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Jack Higgins thriller universe ⓘ |
| hasPlotElement |
intelligence operations
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international conspiracy ⓘ power struggle among elites ⓘ secrets from World War II ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
legacy of war ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ power and corruption ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePace | fast-paced ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: Bad Company Description of subject: Bad Company is a fast-paced thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives entangled in a high-stakes conspiracy involving wartime secrets and modern power struggles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bad Company (1995 film)
this entity surface form:
Bad Company (novel)