Dead Souls
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Dead Souls is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin, featuring Inspector John Rebus as he investigates interconnected cases in Edinburgh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dead Souls canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9607193 — 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: Dead Souls Context triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, Dead Souls]
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A.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls is a satirical novel by Nikolai Gogol that critiques 19th-century Russian society through the misadventures of a scheming landowner who buys the rights to deceased serfs.
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B.
The Overcoat
The Overcoat is a classic short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol that follows a poor government clerk whose life briefly changes after acquiring a new overcoat, often seen as a foundational work of Russian literary realism and social critique.
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C.
The Lower Depths
The Lower Depths is a seminal 1902 play by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of impoverished lodgers in a flophouse.
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D.
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time is a 1840 psychological novel by Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov that portrays the complex, cynical antihero Pechorin and is considered a classic of Russian literature.
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E.
Oblomov
Oblomov is a 1980 Soviet film adaptation of Ivan Goncharov’s classic novel, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and known for its portrayal of a lethargic nobleman whose inertia symbolizes social and spiritual stagnation.
- 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: Dead Souls Target entity description: Dead Souls is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin, featuring Inspector John Rebus as he investigates interconnected cases in Edinburgh.
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A.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls is a satirical novel by Nikolai Gogol that critiques 19th-century Russian society through the misadventures of a scheming landowner who buys the rights to deceased serfs.
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B.
The Overcoat
The Overcoat is a classic short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol that follows a poor government clerk whose life briefly changes after acquiring a new overcoat, often seen as a foundational work of Russian literary realism and social critique.
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C.
The Lower Depths
The Lower Depths is a seminal 1902 play by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of impoverished lodgers in a flophouse.
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D.
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time is a 1840 psychological novel by Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov that portrays the complex, cynical antihero Pechorin and is considered a classic of Russian literature.
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E.
Oblomov
Oblomov is a 1980 Soviet film adaptation of Ivan Goncharov’s classic novel, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and known for its portrayal of a lethargic nobleman whose inertia symbolizes social and spiritual stagnation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Inspector John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Set in Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Hanging Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Inspector John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780752831320 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 400 pages ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Edinburgh police environment
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Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | Tartan noir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime investigation
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moral ambiguity ⓘ social issues in Scotland ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Inspector John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Inspector Rebus series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Inspector John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| publisher | Orion Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dead Souls Description of subject: Dead Souls is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin, featuring Inspector John Rebus as he investigates interconnected cases in Edinburgh.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.