Trace
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"Trace" is a crime novel by Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta as she investigates a complex and disturbing case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trace canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11726571 — 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: Trace Context triple: [Patricia Cornwell, notableWork, Trace]
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A.
Trace
Trace is a large-scale installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei composed of thousands of LEGO portraits depicting political prisoners and activists from around the world.
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B.
TRACE
TRACE is a U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) system that provides real-time public reporting and transparency for over-the-counter corporate bond and other fixed-income securities transactions.
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C.
Traces
Traces is a song co-written and produced by American songwriter and producer Buddy Buie, best known through its hit recording by the Classics IV.
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D.
Traces
Traces is a work by American historian and author James B. Cobb Jr., likely exploring themes related to the history and culture of the American South.
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E.
Traces
Traces is a film featuring British actor Vincent Regan in a prominent role.
- 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: Trace Target entity description: "Trace" is a crime novel by Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta as she investigates a complex and disturbing case.
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A.
Trace
Trace is a large-scale installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei composed of thousands of LEGO portraits depicting political prisoners and activists from around the world.
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B.
TRACE
TRACE is a U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) system that provides real-time public reporting and transparency for over-the-counter corporate bond and other fixed-income securities transactions.
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C.
Traces
Traces is a song co-written and produced by American songwriter and producer Buddy Buie, best known through its hit recording by the Classics IV.
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D.
Traces
Traces is a work by American historian and author James B. Cobb Jr., likely exploring themes related to the history and culture of the American South.
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E.
Traces
Traces is a film featuring British actor Vincent Regan in a prominent role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Patricia Cornwell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Kay Scarpetta
ⓘ
linked to:
Kay Scarpetta
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| followedBy | Predator ⓘ |
| follows | Blow Fly ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780399152191 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 400 pages ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime investigation
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forensic investigation ⓘ psychological suspense ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. Kay Scarpetta
ⓘ
linked to:
Kay Scarpetta
|
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Kay Scarpetta novels
ⓘ
linked to:
Kay Scarpetta series
|
| protagonistOccupation | medical examiner ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons
ⓘ
linked to:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
|
| series | Kay Scarpetta series ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Florida
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Richmond, Virginia ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: Trace Description of subject: "Trace" is a crime novel by Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta as she investigates a complex and disturbing case.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.