The Silver Blade
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The Silver Blade is a young adult historical fantasy novel by Sally Gardner set during the French Revolution, blending romance, adventure, and elements of the supernatural.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Silver Blade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8504328 — 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 Silver Blade Context triple: [Sally Gardner, notableWork, The Silver Blade]
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A.
Sword of Mercy
Sword of Mercy is a ceremonial British coronation sword, traditionally associated with the legend of Tristan and used as one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
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B.
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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C.
Cold Irons Bound
"Cold Irons Bound" is a Grammy-winning, blues-infused song by Bob Dylan, noted for its dense, apocalyptic lyrics and murky, atmospheric production.
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D.
The Magic Sword
The Magic Sword is a 1962 fantasy film directed by Bert I. Gordon, loosely based on the Saint George and the Dragon legend and known for its campy special effects and fairy-tale adventure plot.
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E.
The Razors Edge
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- 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 Silver Blade Target entity description: The Silver Blade is a young adult historical fantasy novel by Sally Gardner set during the French Revolution, blending romance, adventure, and elements of the supernatural.
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A.
Sword of Mercy
Sword of Mercy is a ceremonial British coronation sword, traditionally associated with the legend of Tristan and used as one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
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B.
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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C.
Cold Irons Bound
"Cold Irons Bound" is a Grammy-winning, blues-infused song by Bob Dylan, noted for its dense, apocalyptic lyrics and murky, atmospheric production.
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D.
The Magic Sword
The Magic Sword is a 1962 fantasy film directed by Bert I. Gordon, loosely based on the Saint George and the Dragon legend and known for its campy special effects and fairy-tale adventure plot.
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E.
The Razors Edge
The Razors Edge is a 1990 hard rock album by Australian band AC/DC, best known for hits like "Thunderstruck" and "Are You Ready."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Sally Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows | The Red Necklace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ historical fantasy ⓘ romance ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
British fantasy novels
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British young adult novels ⓘ novels set in France ⓘ novels set in the 18th century ⓘ |
| hasElement | supernatural ⓘ |
| intendedMarket | young adult market ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryCategory | children's and young adult literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class conflict
ⓘ
courage ⓘ love ⓘ political upheaval ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Red Necklace series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | French Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
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 Silver Blade Description of subject: The Silver Blade is a young adult historical fantasy novel by Sally Gardner set during the French Revolution, blending romance, adventure, and elements of the supernatural.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sally Gardner