Leviathan
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"Leviathan" is a 1992 novel by Paul Auster that blends mystery, political intrigue, and metafiction as it follows a writer investigating the life and radicalization of a deceased friend.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leviathan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6828197 — 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: Leviathan Context triple: [Paul Auster, notableWork, Leviathan]
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Leviathan
Leviathan is a towering steel giga coaster at Canada's Wonderland renowned for its extreme height, speed, and steep first drop.
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Leviathan
Leviathan is Thomas Hobbes’s seminal 1651 philosophical treatise that lays out a foundational theory of the social contract and the necessity of a powerful sovereign to maintain order.
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Leviathan
Leviathan is a critically acclaimed 2004 progressive/sludge metal concept album by Mastodon inspired by Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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Leviathan
Leviathan is a clandestine, global criminal and terrorist organization in DC Comics, often depicted as a major adversary of Batman and other heroes.
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Leviathan
Leviathan is a monumental, site-specific inflatable sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, known for its immersive, cathedral-like interior and exploration of scale, space, and perception.
- 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: Leviathan Target entity description: "Leviathan" is a 1992 novel by Paul Auster that blends mystery, political intrigue, and metafiction as it follows a writer investigating the life and radicalization of a deceased friend.
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A.
Leviathan
Leviathan is a critically acclaimed 2004 progressive/sludge metal concept album by Mastodon inspired by Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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B.
Leviathan
Leviathan is Thomas Hobbes’s seminal 1651 philosophical treatise that lays out a foundational theory of the social contract and the necessity of a powerful sovereign to maintain order.
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C.
Leviathan
"Leviathan" is a 1989 science fiction horror film set in an underwater mining facility, known for its creature effects and tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
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Leviathan
Leviathan is a clandestine, global criminal and terrorist organization in DC Comics, often depicted as a major adversary of Batman and other heroes.
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E.
Leviathan
Leviathan is a monumental, site-specific inflatable sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, known for its immersive, cathedral-like interior and exploration of scale, space, and perception.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Paul Auster ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Benjamin Sachs ⓘ |
| containsElement |
frame narrative
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mystery investigation ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | notable contemporary designer (varies by edition) ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ political fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Benjamin Sachs
ⓘ
Fanny Sachs ⓘ Lillian Stern ⓘ Maria Turner ⓘ Peter Aaron ⓘ Reed Dimaggio ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780140234077 ⓘ |
| hasMotif | bombings of replicas of the Statue of Liberty ⓘ |
| hasReception | critical acclaim ⓘ |
| hasStructure | nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Peter Aaron ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | about 275 ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorBodyOfWork | Paul Auster bibliography ⓘ |
| plotFocus | investigation of a friend’s life and death ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Viking Press
ⓘ
linked to:
The Viking Press
|
| relatedWork |
Moon Palace
ⓘ
The New York Trilogy ⓘ |
| setting |
New York
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| theme |
authorship
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ political radicalization ⓘ storytelling ⓘ surveillance ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Leviathan Description of subject: "Leviathan" is a 1992 novel by Paul Auster that blends mystery, political intrigue, and metafiction as it follows a writer investigating the life and radicalization of a deceased friend.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.