The Fifth Woman
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The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Fifth Woman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7651902 — 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 Fifth Woman Context triple: [Henning Mankell, notableWork, The Fifth Woman]
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A.
The Intended
The Intended is Kurtz’s devoted fiancée in Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness," symbolizing idealized European innocence and moral blindness to colonial atrocities.
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B.
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film, based on Elena Ferrante’s novel and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, that explores the unsettling complexities of motherhood and female identity.
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C.
The Woman Who Walked Alone
The Woman Who Walked Alone is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and starring Florence Vidor.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
- 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 Fifth Woman Target entity description: The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
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A.
The Intended
The Intended is Kurtz’s devoted fiancée in Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness," symbolizing idealized European innocence and moral blindness to colonial atrocities.
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B.
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film, based on Elena Ferrante’s novel and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, that explores the unsettling complexities of motherhood and female identity.
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C.
The Woman Who Walked Alone
The Woman Who Walked Alone is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and starring Florence Vidor.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Henning Mankell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Kurt Wallander
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linked to:
Wallander
Swedish police ⓘ |
| follows | Sidetracked ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasDetective |
Kurt Wallander
ⓘ
linked to:
Wallander
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| hasMotiveForCrimes | revenge ⓘ |
| hasVictims | several men murdered in brutal ways ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Kurt Wallander
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linked to:
Wallander
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| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kurt Wallander novel cycle
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linked to:
Wallander
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| placeInSeries | sixth Kurt Wallander novel ⓘ |
| plotSummary |
Kurt Wallander investigates a series of brutal, seemingly connected murders in Sweden.
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linked to:
Wallander
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| precedes | One Step Behind ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Kurt Wallander
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linked to:
Wallander
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| series |
Kurt Wallander series
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linked to:
Wallander
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| settingCountry | Sweden ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Ystad ⓘ |
| theme |
moral responsibility
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police procedure ⓘ serial murder investigation ⓘ vigilante justice ⓘ violence against women ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Fifth Woman Description of subject: The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
Referenced by (2)
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