The Book of Dust
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The Book of Dust is a fantasy novel trilogy by Philip Pullman that expands and deepens the world of His Dark Materials, exploring new characters, histories, and philosophical themes within the same universe.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Book of Dust canonical | 7 |
| Book of Dust Volume Two | 1 |
| The Book of Dust trilogy | 1 |
| The Book of Dust trilogy (related universe) | 1 |
| The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6848971 — 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: The Book of Dust Context triple: [Philip Pullman, notableWork, The Book of Dust]
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Warlight
Warlight is a postwar coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows two siblings uncovering the mysterious past of their parents in 1940s and 1950s London.
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His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a fantasy television series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel trilogy, featuring parallel worlds, daemons, and a young heroine’s journey against a powerful theocratic authority.
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C.
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel "Northern Lights," set in a parallel universe where a young girl embarks on a perilous journey involving armored bears, witches, and a mysterious substance called Dust.
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D.
All Souls
All Souls is a Christian feast day commemorating the faithful departed, particularly observed in Western churches on November 2.
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E.
The Subtle Knife
The Subtle Knife is the second novel in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, introducing a dimension-cutting knife and expanding the series’ multiverse and theological themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of Dust Target entity description: The Book of Dust is a fantasy novel trilogy by Philip Pullman that expands and deepens the world of His Dark Materials, exploring new characters, histories, and philosophical themes within the same universe.
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A.
Warlight
Warlight is a postwar coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows two siblings uncovering the mysterious past of their parents in 1940s and 1950s London.
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B.
His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a fantasy television series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel trilogy, featuring parallel worlds, daemons, and a young heroine’s journey against a powerful theocratic authority.
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C.
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel "Northern Lights," set in a parallel universe where a young girl embarks on a perilous journey involving armored bears, witches, and a mysterious substance called Dust.
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D.
All Souls
All Souls is a Christian feast day commemorating the faithful departed, particularly observed in Western churches on November 2.
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E.
The Subtle Knife
The Subtle Knife is the second novel in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, introducing a dimension-cutting knife and expanding the series’ multiverse and theological themes.
- 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 Book of Dust Description of subject: The Book of Dust is a fantasy novel trilogy by Philip Pullman that expands and deepens the world of His Dark Materials, exploring new characters, histories, and philosophical themes within the same universe.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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