Shade (novel)
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Shade is a psychological ghost story novel by Irish filmmaker and writer Neil Jordan that explores memory, trauma, and the lingering presence of the past in contemporary Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shade (novel) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6597428 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shade (novel) Context triple: [Neil Jordan, authorOf, Shade (novel)]
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A.
Shade, the Changing Girl
Shade, the Changing Girl is a surreal DC Comics/Young Animal series following an alien who steals the Madness Vest and inhabits the body of a comatose teenage girl, exploring identity, trauma, and reality-bending chaos.
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B.
Deep in the Shade
Deep in the Shade is a bluegrass album by the Steep Canyon Rangers that showcases their contemporary acoustic sound and tight vocal harmonies.
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C.
Light and Shadow
"Light and Shadow" is a track from Vangelis’s epic orchestral and electronic score for the film *1492: Conquest of Paradise*, known for its atmospheric and cinematic sound.
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D.
Evening Shade
"Evening Shade" is an American television sitcom that aired in the early 1990s, known for its small-town Southern setting and ensemble cast led by Burt Reynolds.
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E.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
- 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: Shade (novel) Target entity description: Shade is a psychological ghost story novel by Irish filmmaker and writer Neil Jordan that explores memory, trauma, and the lingering presence of the past in contemporary Ireland.
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A.
Shade, the Changing Girl
Shade, the Changing Girl is a surreal DC Comics/Young Animal series following an alien who steals the Madness Vest and inhabits the body of a comatose teenage girl, exploring identity, trauma, and reality-bending chaos.
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B.
Deep in the Shade
Deep in the Shade is a bluegrass album by the Steep Canyon Rangers that showcases their contemporary acoustic sound and tight vocal harmonies.
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C.
Light and Shadow
"Light and Shadow" is a track from Vangelis’s epic orchestral and electronic score for the film *1492: Conquest of Paradise*, known for its atmospheric and cinematic sound.
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D.
Evening Shade
"Evening Shade" is an American television sitcom that aired in the early 1990s, known for its small-town Southern setting and ensemble cast led by Burt Reynolds.
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E.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ghost story
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novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| author | Neil Jordan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
ghost story
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literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Neil Jordan ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
Irish filmmaker
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Irish writer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Irish history
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family secrets ⓘ haunting ⓘ lingering presence of the past ⓘ memory and identity ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
memory
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the past ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shade (novel) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Ireland ⓘ |
| setting |
Ireland
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contemporary Ireland ⓘ |
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: Shade (novel) Description of subject: Shade is a psychological ghost story novel by Irish filmmaker and writer Neil Jordan that explores memory, trauma, and the lingering presence of the past in contemporary Ireland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shade (novel)