The Matarese Circle
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The Matarese Circle is a 1979 espionage thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a secret international cabal manipulating global events and the rival agents who must stop it.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Matarese Countdown | 2 |
| The Matarese Circle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8498695 — 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 Matarese Circle Context triple: [Robert Ludlum, notableWork, The Matarese Circle]
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A.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Dorset, England, that flows through and gives its name to the coastal town of Bournemouth.
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River Bourne
River Bourne is a chalk stream in Wiltshire, England, that flows through the Bourne Valley before joining the River Avon near Salisbury.
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C.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Surrey, England, that flows through villages such as Chobham before joining the River Thames.
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D.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Kent, England, that serves as a tributary within the local drainage system and contributes to the region’s rural landscape and ecology.
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E.
The Syndicate
The Syndicate is a British television drama series that follows different groups of lottery winners whose sudden wealth dramatically alters their lives and relationships.
- 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 Matarese Circle Target entity description: The Matarese Circle is a 1979 espionage thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a secret international cabal manipulating global events and the rival agents who must stop it.
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A.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Dorset, England, that flows through and gives its name to the coastal town of Bournemouth.
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B.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a chalk stream in Wiltshire, England, that flows through the Bourne Valley before joining the River Avon near Salisbury.
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C.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Surrey, England, that flows through villages such as Chobham before joining the River Thames.
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D.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Kent, England, that serves as a tributary within the local drainage system and contributes to the region’s rural landscape and ecology.
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E.
The Syndicate
The Syndicate is a British television drama series that follows different groups of lottery winners whose sudden wealth dramatically alters their lives and relationships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
espionage thriller novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert Ludlum ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresOrganization | Matarese ⓘ |
| genre |
espionage fiction
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spy fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasFictionalOrganizationType |
international cabal
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secret society ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Matarese Countdown
ⓘ
linked to:
The Matarese Circle
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a global cabal influencing world events ⓘ |
| partOf | Robert Ludlum bibliography ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
rival intelligence agents attempting to stop a conspiracy
ⓘ
secret international cabal manipulating global events ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Brandon Scofield
ⓘ
Vasili Taleniekov ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Europe
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Middle East ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| settingPeriod | Cold War ⓘ |
| theme |
cooperation between rival agents
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corruption among political and economic elites ⓘ international power struggles ⓘ political conspiracy ⓘ |
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 Matarese Circle Description of subject: The Matarese Circle is a 1979 espionage thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a secret international cabal manipulating global events and the rival agents who must stop it.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Matarese Circle
linked to: The Matarese Circle