The Scarecrow
E379917
The Scarecrow is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring journalist Jack McEvoy investigating a serial killer who exploits digital technology to stalk his victims.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Scarecrow canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682196 — 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 Scarecrow Context triple: [Michael Connelly, notableWork, The Scarecrow]
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A.
The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow is a beloved fictional figure from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, known for his quest for a brain and his role as one of Dorothy’s loyal companions.
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B.
Scarecrow
Scarecrow is a Batman supervillain and deranged psychiatrist who uses fear-inducing toxins to terrorize Gotham City.
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C.
The Tin Man
The Tin Man is a beloved fictional character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as the heart-seeking, metal woodsman who journeys with Dorothy to see the Wizard.
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D.
The Wizard of Oz (character)
The Wizard of Oz (character) is the enigmatic and ultimately ordinary man from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories who poses as a powerful wizard while secretly being a humbug from Kansas.
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E.
The Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion is a fictional lion from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as Dorothy’s timid yet ultimately brave companion in "The Wizard of Oz."
- 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 Scarecrow Target entity description: The Scarecrow is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring journalist Jack McEvoy investigating a serial killer who exploits digital technology to stalk his victims.
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A.
The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow is a beloved fictional figure from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, known for his quest for a brain and his role as one of Dorothy’s loyal companions.
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B.
Scarecrow
Scarecrow is a Batman supervillain and deranged psychiatrist who uses fear-inducing toxins to terrorize Gotham City.
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C.
The Tin Man
The Tin Man is a beloved fictional character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as the heart-seeking, metal woodsman who journeys with Dorothy to see the Wizard.
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D.
The Wizard of Oz (character)
The Wizard of Oz (character) is the enigmatic and ultimately ordinary man from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories who poses as a powerful wizard while secretly being a humbug from Kansas.
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E.
The Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion is a fictional lion from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as Dorothy’s timid yet ultimately brave companion in "The Wizard of Oz."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Connelly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Little, Brown and Company design department ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Rachel Walling ⓘ |
| follows | The Poet ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasForm | novel-length narrative ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780316166294 ⓘ |
| hasSequelRelation | continues story of Jack McEvoy from The Poet ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
identity theft
ⓘ
internet crime ⓘ journalism ⓘ law enforcement investigation ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
data privacy
ⓘ
digital surveillance ⓘ investigative journalism ⓘ serial murder ⓘ technology and crime ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | The Scarecrow (serial killer alias) ⓘ |
| isFictionalWorkOf | Michael Connelly ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | legal and crime thriller ⓘ |
| literaryPrecededBy | The Poet ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack McEvoy ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of cybercrime and data-mining techniques in serial murder investigation ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Jack McEvoy series ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Journalist Jack McEvoy investigates a serial killer who uses digital technology and data systems to identify and stalk victims. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Jack McEvoy ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 21st century ⓘ |
| setting |
Los Angeles
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Nevada ⓘ |
| workInvolves |
computer forensics
ⓘ
newspaper industry ⓘ serial killer ⓘ |
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 Scarecrow Description of subject: The Scarecrow is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring journalist Jack McEvoy investigating a serial killer who exploits digital technology to stalk his victims.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.