The Great and Secret Show
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The Great and Secret Show is a dark fantasy-horror novel by Clive Barker that explores a hidden war between supernatural forces and humanity through a surreal, metaphysical narrative.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Great and Secret Show canonical | 2 |
| The Great and Secret Show (comic book) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316395 — 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 Great and Secret Show Context triple: [Clive Barker, notableWork, The Great and Secret Show]
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A.
The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed British television serial written by Dennis Potter that blends noir mystery, musical fantasy, and psychological drama through the hallucinations of a hospitalized writer.
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B.
The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions is a novel by Paul Auster that follows a grieving academic obsessed with a vanished silent film star, blending mystery, metafiction, and meditations on identity and loss.
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C.
After Laughter
After Laughter is Paramore’s fifth studio album, marking a stylistic shift toward bright, 1980s-influenced pop-rock with introspective, emotionally candid lyrics.
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D.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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E.
A Cock and Bull Story
A Cock and Bull Story is a 2005 British metafictional comedy film, loosely adapting Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy and playfully blurring the lines between filmmaking and reality.
- 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 Great and Secret Show Target entity description: The Great and Secret Show is a dark fantasy-horror novel by Clive Barker that explores a hidden war between supernatural forces and humanity through a surreal, metaphysical narrative.
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A.
The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed British television serial written by Dennis Potter that blends noir mystery, musical fantasy, and psychological drama through the hallucinations of a hospitalized writer.
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B.
The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions is a novel by Paul Auster that follows a grieving academic obsessed with a vanished silent film star, blending mystery, metafiction, and meditations on identity and loss.
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C.
After Laughter
After Laughter is Paramore’s fifth studio album, marking a stylistic shift toward bright, 1980s-influenced pop-rock with introspective, emotionally candid lyrics.
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D.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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E.
A Cock and Bull Story
A Cock and Bull Story is a 2005 British metafictional comedy film, loosely adapting Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy and playfully blurring the lines between filmmaking and reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptationPublisher | IDW Publishing ⓘ |
| author | Clive Barker ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| centralConflict | hidden war between supernatural forces and humanity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | Everville ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
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fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Great and Secret Show (comic book)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Great and Secret Show
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| hasSubject |
hidden worlds
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human desire for transcendence ⓘ supernatural war ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jo-Beth Maguire
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Kissoon ⓘ Randolph Jaffe ⓘ Richard Fletcher ⓘ Tommy-Ray Maguire ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
metaphysical
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surreal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending horror with metaphysical fantasy
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introducing the cosmology of Quiddity in Barker’s fiction ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 700 ⓘ |
| partOf | Clive Barker bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| publisher |
HarperCollins
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HarperCollins Publishers ⓘ
linked to:
HarperCollins
|
| series | The Books of the Art ⓘ |
| setting |
Omaha Beach, Nebraska
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Quiddity ⓘ |
| theme |
dreams and alternate realities
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good versus evil ⓘ power and corruption ⓘ the nature of reality ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Great and Secret Show Description of subject: The Great and Secret Show is a dark fantasy-horror novel by Clive Barker that explores a hidden war between supernatural forces and humanity through a surreal, metaphysical narrative.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Great and Secret Show