The Big Sleep
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The Big Sleep is a 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler that introduces private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex tale of crime, blackmail, and moral ambiguity in Los Angeles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Sleep canonical | 8 |
| The Big Sleep (novel) | 4 |
| The Big Sleep (1939 novel) | 1 |
| The Big Sleep universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4126692 — 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: The Big Sleep Context triple: [Philip Marlowe, firstAppearance, The Big Sleep]
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A.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a classic 1946 film noir mystery, directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, renowned for its complex plot and iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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B.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
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C.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is a classic 1941 film noir, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, widely regarded as a landmark of the genre.
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D.
The Blue Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
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E.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is a 1973 neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman, loosely based on Raymond Chandler’s novel and noted for its modern, offbeat take on private detective Philip Marlowe.
- 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: The Big Sleep Target entity description: The Big Sleep is a 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler that introduces private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex tale of crime, blackmail, and moral ambiguity in Los Angeles.
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A.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a classic 1946 film noir mystery, directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, renowned for its complex plot and iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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B.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
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C.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is a classic 1941 film noir, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, widely regarded as a landmark of the genre.
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D.
The Blue Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
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E.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is a 1973 neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman, loosely based on Raymond Chandler’s novel and noted for its modern, offbeat take on private detective Philip Marlowe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The Big Sleep Description of subject: The Big Sleep is a 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler that introduces private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex tale of crime, blackmail, and moral ambiguity in Los Angeles.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep universe
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep (1939 novel)