News of a Kidnapping
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News of a Kidnapping is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez that recounts a series of high-profile abductions carried out by Colombian drug cartels in the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| News of a Kidnapping canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T150217 — 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: News of a Kidnapping Context triple: [Gabriel García Márquez, notableWork, News of a Kidnapping]
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Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
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B.
Missile Scare
Missile Scare is an alternative name for the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tense 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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C.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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D.
National Reporter System
The National Reporter System is a comprehensive set of regional and specialized case law reporters published by West that organizes and publishes judicial opinions from courts across the United States.
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E.
Keep a Child Alive
Keep a Child Alive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing life-saving treatment, care, and support to children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, primarily in Africa and India.
- 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: News of a Kidnapping Target entity description: News of a Kidnapping is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez that recounts a series of high-profile abductions carried out by Colombian drug cartels in the early 1990s.
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A.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
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B.
Missile Scare
Missile Scare is an alternative name for the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tense 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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C.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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D.
National Reporter System
The National Reporter System is a comprehensive set of regional and specialized case law reporters published by West that organizes and publishes judicial opinions from courts across the United States.
-
E.
Keep a Child Alive
Keep a Child Alive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing life-saving treatment, care, and support to children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, primarily in Africa and India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
How these facts were elicited
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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: News of a Kidnapping Description of subject: News of a Kidnapping is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez that recounts a series of high-profile abductions carried out by Colombian drug cartels in the early 1990s.
Referenced by (4)
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