The Shadow in the North
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The Shadow in the North is a Victorian-era mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detectives Sally Lockhart and Frederick Garland as they uncover a sinister industrial conspiracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shadow in the North canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6848976 — 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 Shadow in the North Context triple: [Philip Pullman, notableWork, The Shadow in the North]
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A.
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.
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B.
The Shadow
The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
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C.
The Shadowed Sun
The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
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D.
The Cross of Snow
The Cross of Snow is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that mournfully commemorates his wife Frances Appleton and reflects on enduring grief through the metaphor of a snow-filled mountain ravine.
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E.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
- 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 Shadow in the North Target entity description: The Shadow in the North is a Victorian-era mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detectives Sally Lockhart and Frederick Garland as they uncover a sinister industrial conspiracy.
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A.
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.
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B.
The Shadow
The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
-
C.
The Shadowed Sun
The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
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D.
The Cross of Snow
The Cross of Snow is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that mournfully commemorates his wife Frances Appleton and reflects on enduring grief through the metaphor of a snow-filled mountain ravine.
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E.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
television film ⓘ |
| author | Philip Pullman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Shadow in the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Frederick Garland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sally Lockhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Tiger in the Well NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Shadow in the North (TV film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySeriesNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Frederick Garland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sally Lockhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalMediaType | print ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Sally Lockhart series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfSetting |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Ruby in the Smoke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation |
financial consultant
ⓘ
private detective ⓘ |
| publisher |
Oxford University Press
ⓘ
Scholastic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
older children
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
| theme |
corporate corruption
ⓘ
industrialization ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: The Shadow in the North Description of subject: The Shadow in the North is a Victorian-era mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detectives Sally Lockhart and Frederick Garland as they uncover a sinister industrial conspiracy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.