The Sharing Knife
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The Sharing Knife is a romantic fantasy novel series by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a frontier world where magic, cultural conflict, and an unlikely cross-cultural marriage drive the story.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sharing Knife canonical | 6 |
| The Sharing Knife: Beguilement | 4 |
| The Sharing Knife: Horizon | 4 |
| The Sharing Knife: Legacy | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910307 — 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 Sharing Knife Context triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, seriesCreated, The Sharing Knife]
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A.
The Shape of the Sword
"The Shape of the Sword" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, included in his collection *Ficciones*, that explores themes of identity, betrayal, and narrative unreliability through a framed tale of a mysterious scarred man.
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B.
The Sword of Shannara
The Sword of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel that launched Terry Brooks’s Shannara series, following a young hero’s quest to wield a magical sword against a dark warlock in a post-apocalyptic world.
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C.
Tehanu
Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Wishsong of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, following siblings Brin and Jair Ohmsford as they confront a dark magic threatening their world.
- 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 Sharing Knife Target entity description: The Sharing Knife is a romantic fantasy novel series by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a frontier world where magic, cultural conflict, and an unlikely cross-cultural marriage drive the story.
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A.
The Shape of the Sword
"The Shape of the Sword" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, included in his collection *Ficciones*, that explores themes of identity, betrayal, and narrative unreliability through a framed tale of a mysterious scarred man.
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B.
The Sword of Shannara
The Sword of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel that launched Terry Brooks’s Shannara series, following a young hero’s quest to wield a magical sword against a dark warlock in a post-apocalyptic world.
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C.
Tehanu
Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Wishsong of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, following siblings Brin and Jair Ohmsford as they confront a dark magic threatening their world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy novel
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fantasy novel series ⓘ romantic fantasy series ⓘ |
| author |
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cross-cultural marriage
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cultural conflict ⓘ duty and responsibility ⓘ family and community ⓘ prejudice and reconciliation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| explores | intersection of romance and epic fantasy adventure ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dag Redwing Hickory
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Fawn Bluefield ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCentury | 21st century ⓘ |
| focusesOn | relationship between Dag Redwing Hickory and Fawn Bluefield ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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romantic fantasy ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
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linked to:
The Sharing Knife
The Sharing Knife: Horizon ⓘ
linked to:
The Sharing Knife
The Sharing Knife: Legacy ⓘ
linked to:
The Sharing Knife series
The Sharing Knife: Passage ⓘ
linked to:
The Sharing Knife series
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| hasSubseries |
The Sharing Knife: Volume One (Beguilement and Legacy)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Sharing Knife series
The Sharing Knife: Volume Two (Passage and Horizon) ⓘ
linked to:
The Sharing Knife series
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| language | English ⓘ |
| magicSystem | malice-hunting groundsense magic ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person limited ⓘ |
| notableElement | sharing knives used to kill malices ⓘ |
| positionInSeries |
1
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2 ⓘ 3 ⓘ 4 ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | humans versus malices ⓘ |
| publisher |
Eos
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HarperCollins ⓘ |
| series |
The Sharing Knife
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The Sharing Knife ⓘ The Sharing Knife ⓘ The Sharing Knife ⓘ |
| setting | secondary world frontier society ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workOf | Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Sharing Knife Description of subject: The Sharing Knife is a romantic fantasy novel series by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a frontier world where magic, cultural conflict, and an unlikely cross-cultural marriage drive the story.
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