The Killing Place
E452879
The Killing Place is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles stranded with a group of travelers in a remote, snowbound Wyoming village where a sinister mystery unfolds.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Killing Place canonical | 1 |
| The Killing Place (in the United Kingdom) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4556035 — 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 Killing Place Context triple: [Tess Gerritsen, notableWork, The Killing Place]
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A.
The Killing Ground
The Killing Ground is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring his recurring character Sean Dillon in a high-stakes tale of terrorism, kidnapping, and covert operations.
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B.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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C.
The Executioners
The Executioners is a 1957 crime thriller novel by John D. MacDonald that tells the story of a lawyer and his family terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict, later famously adapted into the film Cape Fear.
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D.
Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead is John le Carré’s debut espionage novel that introduces the introspective British intelligence officer George Smiley in a bleak, psychologically driven Cold War mystery.
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E.
The Executioner
The Executioner is a downloadable content expansion for the survival horror game The Evil Within that lets players experience the story from the perspective of the hulking Keeper enemy in first-person combat-focused gameplay.
- 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 Killing Place Target entity description: The Killing Place is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles stranded with a group of travelers in a remote, snowbound Wyoming village where a sinister mystery unfolds.
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A.
The Killing Ground
The Killing Ground is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring his recurring character Sean Dillon in a high-stakes tale of terrorism, kidnapping, and covert operations.
-
B.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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C.
The Executioners
The Executioners is a 1957 crime thriller novel by John D. MacDonald that tells the story of a lawyer and his family terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict, later famously adapted into the film Cape Fear.
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D.
Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead is John le Carré’s debut espionage novel that introduces the introspective British intelligence officer George Smiley in a bleak, psychologically driven Cold War mystery.
-
E.
The Executioner
The Executioner is a downloadable content expansion for the survival horror game The Evil Within that lets players experience the story from the perspective of the hulking Keeper enemy in first-person combat-focused gameplay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rizzoli & Isles novel
ⓘ
crime thriller novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Ice Cold ⓘ |
| author | Tess Gerritsen ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
crime investigation
ⓘ
secrets in a small community ⓘ survival in isolation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter |
Jane Rizzoli
ⓘ
Maura Isles ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | medical examiner ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
forensic thriller
ⓘ
police procedural elements ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
Ice Cold (in the United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ice Cold
The Killing Place (in the United Kingdom) ⓘ
linked to:
The Killing Place
|
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Tess Gerritsen Rizzoli & Isles books ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Medical examiner Maura Isles becomes stranded with a group of travelers in a remote, snowbound Wyoming village where a sinister mystery unfolds. ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 2010s ⓘ |
| publisher | Bantam Press ⓘ |
| series | Rizzoli & Isles ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment |
remote village
ⓘ
snowbound setting ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Wyoming ⓘ |
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 Killing Place Description of subject: The Killing Place is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles stranded with a group of travelers in a remote, snowbound Wyoming village where a sinister mystery unfolds.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Killing Place