Better Off Dead
E401433
Better Off Dead is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (co-written with Andrew Child), featuring the iconic drifter ex-military policeman embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy on the U.S.–Mexico border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Better Off Dead canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3949452 — 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: Better Off Dead Context triple: [Lee Child, notableWork, Better Off Dead]
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A.
Rather Die Young
"Rather Die Young" is a soulful R&B ballad by Beyoncé from her 2011 album "4," expressing a passionate, all-or-nothing kind of love.
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B.
Deadly Funny
Deadly Funny is an Australian Indigenous comedy competition and showcase that highlights First Nations comedians as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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C.
A Band Called Death
A Band Called Death is a 2012 documentary film that chronicles the rediscovery and legacy of Death, a pioneering but long-overlooked African American proto-punk band from Detroit.
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D.
Braindead (Dead Alive)
Braindead (Dead Alive) is a 1992 New Zealand splatter-comedy horror film renowned for its extreme gore and darkly humorous take on the zombie genre.
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E.
I Love You to Death
I Love You to Death is a 1990 dark comedy film about a philandering husband whose wife and her accomplices repeatedly, and comically, fail to kill him.
- 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: Better Off Dead Target entity description: Better Off Dead is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (co-written with Andrew Child), featuring the iconic drifter ex-military policeman embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy on the U.S.–Mexico border.
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A.
Rather Die Young
"Rather Die Young" is a soulful R&B ballad by Beyoncé from her 2011 album "4," expressing a passionate, all-or-nothing kind of love.
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B.
Deadly Funny
Deadly Funny is an Australian Indigenous comedy competition and showcase that highlights First Nations comedians as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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C.
A Band Called Death
A Band Called Death is a 2012 documentary film that chronicles the rediscovery and legacy of Death, a pioneering but long-overlooked African American proto-punk band from Detroit.
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D.
Braindead (Dead Alive)
Braindead (Dead Alive) is a 1992 New Zealand splatter-comedy horror film renowned for its extreme gore and darkly humorous take on the zombie genre.
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E.
I Love You to Death
I Love You to Death is a 1990 dark comedy film about a philandering husband whose wife and her accomplices repeatedly, and comically, fail to kill him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jack Reacher novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| author |
Andrew Child
ⓘ
Lee Child ⓘ |
| characterTypeOfProtagonist | drifter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coWrittenBy |
Andrew Child
ⓘ
Lee Child ⓘ |
| features | iconic drifter ex-military policeman embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy on the U.S.–Mexico border ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Jack Reacher universe ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Reacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | investigation of a cross-border conspiracy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jack Reacher
ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Reacher series
|
| plotElement | dangerous conspiracy ⓘ |
| protagonist | Jack Reacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistBackground | ex-military policeman ⓘ |
| series | Jack Reacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| settingRegion | U.S.–Mexico border ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Better Off Dead Description of subject: Better Off Dead is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (co-written with Andrew Child), featuring the iconic drifter ex-military policeman embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy on the U.S.–Mexico border.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.