Season of Skulls
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Season of Skulls is a 2023 science fantasy novel by Charles Stross set in his Laundry Files universe, blending occult espionage, alternate history, and dark humor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Season of Skulls canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060093 — 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: Season of Skulls Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, Season of Skulls]
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A.
Platform of the Skulls
Platform of the Skulls is a carved stone platform at the Maya archaeological site of Chichén Itzá, notable for its reliefs depicting rows of skulls associated with ritual sacrifice and warfare.
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B.
Pile O’ Bones
Pile O’ Bones was the original name of Regina, Saskatchewan, reflecting its origins as a settlement near large piles of bison bones on the Canadian prairie.
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C.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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D.
Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones is a 1998 supernatural horror novel by Stephen King that follows a grieving novelist haunted by ghosts and buried secrets in a lakeside town.
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E.
The Yawning Grave
"The Yawning Grave" is a haunting, atmospheric folk-rock song by Lord Huron known for its ghostly narrative and cinematic, Western-tinged sound.
- 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: Season of Skulls Target entity description: Season of Skulls is a 2023 science fantasy novel by Charles Stross set in his Laundry Files universe, blending occult espionage, alternate history, and dark humor.
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A.
Platform of the Skulls
Platform of the Skulls is a carved stone platform at the Maya archaeological site of Chichén Itzá, notable for its reliefs depicting rows of skulls associated with ritual sacrifice and warfare.
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B.
Pile O’ Bones
Pile O’ Bones was the original name of Regina, Saskatchewan, reflecting its origins as a settlement near large piles of bison bones on the Canadian prairie.
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C.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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D.
Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones is a 1998 supernatural horror novel by Stephen King that follows a grieving novelist haunted by ghosts and buried secrets in a lakeside town.
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E.
The Yawning Grave
"The Yawning Grave" is a haunting, atmospheric folk-rock song by Lord Huron known for its ghostly narrative and cinematic, Western-tinged sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fantasy novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows | Quantum of Nightmares NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternate history
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fantasy ⓘ humorous fiction ⓘ occult fiction ⓘ science fantasy ⓘ science fiction ⓘ spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle |
dark humor
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satire ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeElement |
alternate history
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dark humor ⓘ occult espionage ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
bureaucracy
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cosmic horror ⓘ intelligence agencies ⓘ magic and technology ⓘ supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | long-form prose ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySeriesAuthor | Charles Stross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Laundry Files NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2023 ⓘ |
| setInFictionalUniverse | Laundry Files universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Season of Skulls Description of subject: Season of Skulls is a 2023 science fantasy novel by Charles Stross set in his Laundry Files universe, blending occult espionage, alternate history, and dark humor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.