The Drop
E379902
The Drop is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates two seemingly unrelated cases involving a cold-case DNA hit and political corruption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Drop canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682172 — 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 Drop Context triple: [Michael Connelly, notableWork, The Drop]
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A.
The Drop
The Drop is a crime drama novel by Dennis Lehane that follows a lonely bartender entangled in a dangerous scheme involving mob money, a stray dog, and a mysterious woman in working-class Brooklyn.
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B.
Drop the World
"Drop the World" is a hip-hop track best known as a collaboration between Lil Wayne and Eminem, featuring production work by Hit-Boy.
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C.
Reach Down
"Reach Down" is a lengthy, blues-influenced rock song by the grunge supergroup Temple of the Dog, showcasing extended guitar work and Chris Cornell's powerful vocals.
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D.
The Dropout
The Dropout is a Hulu limited series dramatizing the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the biotech fraud scandal surrounding her company.
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E.
Bounce
"Bounce" is a 2002 hard rock album by Bon Jovi that reflects themes of resilience and renewal, influenced in part by the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
- 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 Drop Target entity description: The Drop is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates two seemingly unrelated cases involving a cold-case DNA hit and political corruption.
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A.
The Drop
The Drop is a crime drama novel by Dennis Lehane that follows a lonely bartender entangled in a dangerous scheme involving mob money, a stray dog, and a mysterious woman in working-class Brooklyn.
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B.
Drop the World
"Drop the World" is a hip-hop track best known as a collaboration between Lil Wayne and Eminem, featuring production work by Hit-Boy.
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C.
Reach Down
"Reach Down" is a lengthy, blues-influenced rock song by the grunge supergroup Temple of the Dog, showcasing extended guitar work and Chris Cornell's powerful vocals.
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D.
The Dropout
The Dropout is a Hulu limited series dramatizing the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the biotech fraud scandal surrounding her company.
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E.
Bounce
"Bounce" is a 2002 hard rock album by Bon Jovi that reflects themes of resilience and renewal, influenced in part by the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Connelly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Harry Bosch ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Black Box ⓘ |
| follows | Nine Dragons ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
justice ⓘ morality in law enforcement ⓘ political influence on policing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Harry Bosch ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOf | Harry Bosch novels ⓘ |
| plotElement |
cold-case DNA hit
ⓘ
parallel investigations ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | LAPD detective ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| series | Harry Bosch series ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| settingOrganization | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
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 Drop Description of subject: The Drop is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates two seemingly unrelated cases involving a cold-case DNA hit and political corruption.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.