The Way of a Serpent
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The Way of a Serpent is a dark, allegorical novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that portrays the brutal power dynamics and moral decay within a poor rural community.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Way of a Serpent canonical | 2 |
| The Serpent’s Way | 1 |
| The Way of the Serpent | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8656635 — 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 Way of a Serpent Context triple: [Torgny Lindgren, notable work, The Way of a Serpent]
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A.
The Serpent Brotherhood
The Serpent Brotherhood is a secretive, villainous organization in *The Librarian* franchise that seeks to obtain and exploit powerful magical artifacts for its own gain.
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B.
Serpent’s Mouth
Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
Tongues of Serpents
Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
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D.
The Serpent and the Moon
The Serpent and the Moon is a historical biography by Princess Michael of Kent that explores the love triangle between King Henri II of France, his wife Catherine de’ Medici, and his mistress Diane de Poitiers.
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E.
She of the Serpent Skirt
She of the Serpent Skirt is an epithet for Coatlicue, the Aztec earth and fertility goddess associated with creation, destruction, and the cycle of life and death.
- 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 Way of a Serpent Target entity description: The Way of a Serpent is a dark, allegorical novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that portrays the brutal power dynamics and moral decay within a poor rural community.
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A.
The Serpent Brotherhood
The Serpent Brotherhood is a secretive, villainous organization in *The Librarian* franchise that seeks to obtain and exploit powerful magical artifacts for its own gain.
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B.
Serpent’s Mouth
Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
Tongues of Serpents
Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
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D.
The Serpent and the Moon
The Serpent and the Moon is a historical biography by Princess Michael of Kent that explores the love triangle between King Henri II of France, his wife Catherine de’ Medici, and his mistress Diane de Poitiers.
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E.
She of the Serpent Skirt
She of the Serpent Skirt is an epithet for Coatlicue, the Aztec earth and fertility goddess associated with creation, destruction, and the cycle of life and death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Torgny Lindgren ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| depicts |
abuse of power
ⓘ
poverty ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ |
| genre |
allegory
ⓘ
dark fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Swedish ⓘ |
| hasMoralFocus | corruption of values ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
dark
ⓘ
symbolic ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
Swedish
ⓘ
linked to:
Swedish language
|
| portrays | brutal power relations in a rural community ⓘ |
| setting | poor rural community ⓘ |
| theme |
moral decay
ⓘ
power dynamics ⓘ |
| workOf | Torgny Lindgren ⓘ |
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 Way of a Serpent Description of subject: The Way of a Serpent is a dark, allegorical novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that portrays the brutal power dynamics and moral decay within a poor rural community.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Way of a Serpent
linked to: The Way of a Serpent