Bleeding Edge
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Bleeding Edge is a 2013 postmodern detective novel by Thomas Pynchon that explores the intersection of technology, capitalism, and conspiracy in New York City around the time of the dot-com crash and 9/11.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bleeding Edge canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505743 — 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: Bleeding Edge Context triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Bleeding Edge]
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A.
Behind the Cloud
"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
Revenge of the Hackers
Revenge of the Hackers is an essay by open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond that chronicles the rise of the open-source movement and the cultural shift it brought to the software industry.
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D.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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E.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
- 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: Bleeding Edge Target entity description: Bleeding Edge is a 2013 postmodern detective novel by Thomas Pynchon that explores the intersection of technology, capitalism, and conspiracy in New York City around the time of the dot-com crash and 9/11.
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A.
Behind the Cloud
"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
Revenge of the Hackers
Revenge of the Hackers is an essay by open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond that chronicles the rise of the open-source movement and the cultural shift it brought to the software industry.
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D.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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E.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective novel
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novel ⓘ postmodern novel ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Pynchon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| exploresTheme |
capitalism
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conspiracy ⓘ corporate power ⓘ late capitalism ⓘ surveillance ⓘ technology ⓘ terrorism ⓘ the internet ⓘ |
| followsInBibliography | Inherent Vice ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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postmodern fiction ⓘ satirical fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-59420-229-0 ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle |
dark humor
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dense prose ⓘ paranoiac narrative ⓘ pastiche ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeElement |
9/11 aftermath
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deep web ⓘ dot-com bubble collapse ⓘ startup culture ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | around 480 pages ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Maxine Tarnow ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bleeding Edge self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre | late works of Thomas Pynchon ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
New York City
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surface form:
New York
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| protagonistOccupation |
decertified fraud examiner
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fraud investigator ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Penguin Books
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surface form:
Penguin Press
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| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| settingTime |
around the September 11 attacks
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around the dot-com crash ⓘ |
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: Bleeding Edge Description of subject: Bleeding Edge is a 2013 postmodern detective novel by Thomas Pynchon that explores the intersection of technology, capitalism, and conspiracy in New York City around the time of the dot-com crash and 9/11.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Pynchon