The Season of the Witch
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The Season of the Witch is a 1971 coming-of-age novel by James Leo Herlihy that follows a disillusioned young woman who flees suburban life for the countercultural world of 1960s New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Season of the Witch canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983149 — 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 Season of the Witch Context triple: [James Leo Herlihy, wrote, The Season of the Witch]
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A.
Season of the Witch
"Season of the Witch" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-rock song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his most influential and enduring tracks.
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B.
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
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C.
The Passionate Witch
The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
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D.
Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld series, following the Lancre witches as they travel abroad to thwart a manipulative fairy godmother and disrupt predestined stories.
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E.
Witches Trails
Witches Trails is a renowned network of mountain biking and walking trails located in the Nevis Range area of the Scottish Highlands.
- 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 Season of the Witch Target entity description: The Season of the Witch is a 1971 coming-of-age novel by James Leo Herlihy that follows a disillusioned young woman who flees suburban life for the countercultural world of 1960s New York City.
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A.
Season of the Witch
"Season of the Witch" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-rock song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his most influential and enduring tracks.
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B.
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
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C.
The Passionate Witch
The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
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D.
Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld series, following the Lancre witches as they travel abroad to thwart a manipulative fairy godmother and disrupt predestined stories.
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E.
Witches Trails
Witches Trails is a renowned network of mountain biking and walking trails located in the Nevis Range area of the Scottish Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coming-of-age novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | James Leo Herlihy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse | real-world inspired setting ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
1960s New York counterculture
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social change in the 1960s ⓘ youth rebellion ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | disillusioned young woman ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | prose fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Season of the Witch ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
New York City
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suburban United States ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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coming of age ⓘ counterculture ⓘ escape from suburban life ⓘ identity ⓘ |
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 Season of the Witch Description of subject: The Season of the Witch is a 1971 coming-of-age novel by James Leo Herlihy that follows a disillusioned young woman who flees suburban life for the countercultural world of 1960s New York City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Season of the Witch