The Odessa File
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The Odessa File is a 1972 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a journalist uncovering a secret organization of former SS officers, later adapted into a popular film.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Odessa File canonical | 3 |
| The Man from Barbarossa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8166344 — 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 Odessa File Context triple: [Oswald Morris, notableWork, The Odessa File]
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A.
The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
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B.
The Eiger Sanction
The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American thriller film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as an art professor and former assassin drawn back into espionage for one final, perilous mission involving a deadly climb of the Eiger mountain.
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C.
The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film, based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, about a professional assassin hired to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.
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D.
The Informer
The Informer is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its expressionistic style and Ford’s Oscar-winning direction.
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E.
The Man from St. Petersburg
The Man from St. Petersburg is a historical thriller novel by Ken Follett set on the eve of World War I, involving espionage, political intrigue, and an anarchist plot in Edwardian England.
- 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 Odessa File Target entity description: The Odessa File is a 1972 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a journalist uncovering a secret organization of former SS officers, later adapted into a popular film.
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A.
The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
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B.
The Eiger Sanction
The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American thriller film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as an art professor and former assassin drawn back into espionage for one final, perilous mission involving a deadly climb of the Eiger mountain.
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C.
The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film, based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, about a professional assassin hired to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.
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D.
The Informer
The Informer is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its expressionistic style and Ford’s Oscar-winning direction.
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E.
The Man from St. Petersburg
The Man from St. Petersburg is a historical thriller novel by Ken Follett set on the eve of World War I, involving espionage, political intrigue, and an anarchist plot in Edwardian England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | The Odessa File (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Frederick Forsyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Odessa File NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Ronald Neame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization | ODESSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Dogs of War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
spy fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasDeweyDecimalClassification | 823.9 ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptation | The Odessa File (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGoodreadsId | 107221 ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780099559832 ⓘ |
| hasLibraryOfCongressClassification | PR6056.O7 O3 ⓘ |
| hasOCLCNumber | 650199 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | about 260 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
justice for Holocaust victims
ⓘ
pursuit of Nazi fugitives ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Peter Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of the ODESSA organization ⓘ |
| originalPublisherCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFocus | investigation of a secret organization of former SS officers ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Day of the Jackal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hutchinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| setting | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Jon Voight
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maximilian Schell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Nazi war criminals
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post–World War II Germany ⓘ |
| timeToWrite | about 35 days ⓘ |
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: The Odessa File Description of subject: The Odessa File is a 1972 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a journalist uncovering a secret organization of former SS officers, later adapted into a popular film.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Man from Barbarossa