The Crossing
E379905
The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Crossing canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682175 — 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 Crossing Context triple: [Michael Connelly, notableWork, The Crossing]
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A.
The Crossing
The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
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B.
De Oversteek
De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
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C.
From the Other Shore
From the Other Shore is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Russian thinker Alexander Herzen, reflecting on European revolutions, socialism, and the fate of Russia in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Crossing the Water
"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.
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E.
Crossing at the Dan
Crossing at the Dan is a historical and cultural site in Danville, Virginia, commemorating the region’s role in transportation and local heritage.
- 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 Crossing Target entity description: The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
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A.
The Crossing
The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
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B.
De Oversteek
De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
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C.
From the Other Shore
From the Other Shore is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Russian thinker Alexander Herzen, reflecting on European revolutions, socialism, and the fate of Russia in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Crossing the Water
"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.
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E.
Crossing at the Dan
Crossing at the Dan is a historical and cultural site in Danville, Virginia, commemorating the region’s role in transportation and local heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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fictional work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Connelly ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
conflict between police work and defense work
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investigation of a complex murder case ⓘ justice and moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter |
Harry Bosch
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Mickey Haller ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Wrong Side of Goodbye ⓘ |
| follows | The Burning Room ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ legal thriller ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780316225885 ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist |
Harry Bosch
ⓘ
Mickey Haller ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation |
defense attorney
ⓘ
detective ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOfUniverse |
Harry Bosch series
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surface form:
Harry Bosch universe
Mickey Haller universe ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| series |
Harry Bosch series
ⓘ
Mickey Haller ⓘ
surface form:
Mickey Haller series
|
| setIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: The Crossing Description of subject: The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.