The Ruby in the Smoke
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The Ruby in the Smoke is a Victorian-era mystery novel by Philip Pullman that follows young Sally Lockhart as she uncovers dark secrets involving crime, opium, and a cursed jewel in 19th-century London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ruby in the Smoke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6848975 — 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 Ruby in the Smoke Context triple: [Philip Pullman, notableWork, The Ruby in the Smoke]
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A.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a dramatic work by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, known for her sharp, socially engaged storytelling.
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B.
The Smoke
The Smoke is the English name of Surah Ad-Dukhan, a chapter of the Qur’an that warns of a coming smoke as a sign of divine punishment and emphasizes God’s power and mercy.
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C.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a British television drama series centered on the lives and challenges of London firefighters.
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D.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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E.
Black Shawl
Black Shawl was the Oglala Lakota wife of the famed war leader Crazy Horse, known primarily through her association with his life and legacy.
- 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 Ruby in the Smoke Target entity description: The Ruby in the Smoke is a Victorian-era mystery novel by Philip Pullman that follows young Sally Lockhart as she uncovers dark secrets involving crime, opium, and a cursed jewel in 19th-century London.
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A.
The Smoke
The Smoke is the English name of Surah Ad-Dukhan, a chapter of the Qur’an that warns of a coming smoke as a sign of divine punishment and emphasizes God’s power and mercy.
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B.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a British television drama series centered on the lives and challenges of London firefighters.
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C.
The Smoke
The Smoke is a dramatic work by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, known for her sharp, socially engaged storytelling.
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D.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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E.
Black Shawl
Black Shawl was the Oglala Lakota wife of the famed war leader Crazy Horse, known primarily through her association with his life and legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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television film ⓘ |
| adaptation | The Ruby in the Smoke (2006 TV film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Philip Pullman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Ruby in the Smoke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralObject | cursed jewel ⓘ |
| containsTheme |
corruption
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crime ⓘ family secrets ⓘ female independence ⓘ greed ⓘ opium trade ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Shadow in the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ mystery ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Adelaide
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frederick Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Bedwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosa Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Lockhart NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Lockhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sally Lockhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Oxford University Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | first novel ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | teenage girl ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| series | Sally Lockhart series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
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 Ruby in the Smoke Description of subject: The Ruby in the Smoke is a Victorian-era mystery novel by Philip Pullman that follows young Sally Lockhart as she uncovers dark secrets involving crime, opium, and a cursed jewel in 19th-century London.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.