Sourcery
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Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, a comic fantasy story that explores the chaos unleashed when a powerful "sourcerer" returns raw magic to the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sourcery canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796191 — 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: Sourcery Context triple: [Mort, followedBy, Sourcery]
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A.
Spellmonger
Spellmonger is a long-running epic fantasy novel series by Terry Mancour that follows the rise of a battle-weary mage in a richly detailed, war-torn world.
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B.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1977 tense adventure thriller film directed by William Friedkin, known for its gritty realism and story of desperate men transporting unstable explosives through a dangerous jungle.
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C.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure game by Infocom, known for its magic-themed puzzles and text-based exploration in a fantasy world.
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D.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1967 jazz album by Miles Davis that marks a key phase in his second great quintet’s innovative, post-bop explorations.
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E.
The Sorcerers
The Sorcerers is a work associated with American intelligence officer and author E. Howard Hunt, reflecting his career in espionage-themed and politically charged writing.
- 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: Sourcery Target entity description: Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, a comic fantasy story that explores the chaos unleashed when a powerful "sourcerer" returns raw magic to the world.
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A.
Spellmonger
Spellmonger is a long-running epic fantasy novel series by Terry Mancour that follows the rise of a battle-weary mage in a richly detailed, war-torn world.
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B.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1977 tense adventure thriller film directed by William Friedkin, known for its gritty realism and story of desperate men transporting unstable explosives through a dangerous jungle.
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C.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure game by Infocom, known for its magic-themed puzzles and text-based exploration in a fantasy world.
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D.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1967 jazz album by Miles Davis that marks a key phase in his second great quintet’s innovative, post-bop explorations.
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E.
The Sorcerers
The Sorcerers is a work associated with American intelligence officer and author E. Howard Hunt, reflecting his career in espionage-themed and politically charged writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Discworld novel
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comic fantasy novel ⓘ |
| author | Terry Pratchett ⓘ |
| containsParodyOf | traditional high fantasy tropes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
abuse of power
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academic politics ⓘ fate versus free will ⓘ nature of magic ⓘ |
| featuresLocation |
Ankh-Morpork
ⓘ
Unseen University ⓘ |
| followedBy | Wyrd Sisters ⓘ |
| genre |
comic fantasy
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satirical fantasy ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Josh Kirby ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-575-04171-4 ⓘ |
| hasMagicSystemElement |
sourcerers
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wizards ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | humorous fantasy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Coin
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Conina ⓘ Rincewind ⓘ The Luggage ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| originalPublisherImprint | Gollancz ⓘ |
| pageCount | 260 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rincewind story arc
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linked to:
Rincewind
|
| plotFocus |
return of raw magic to the Discworld
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rise of a powerful sourcerer ⓘ |
| precededBy | Mort ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd ⓘ |
| series | Discworld ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| setInUniverse | Discworld ⓘ |
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: Sourcery Description of subject: Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, a comic fantasy story that explores the chaos unleashed when a powerful "sourcerer" returns raw magic to the world.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.