The High Window
E414983
The High Window is a 1942 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a case involving a missing rare coin and a wealthy, troubled family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The High Window canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4126696 — 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 High Window Context triple: [Philip Marlowe, appearsIn, The High Window]
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A.
The Light Behind the Window
The Light Behind the Window is a historical fiction novel by Lucinda Riley that intertwines past and present through a family mystery set partly in wartime France.
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B.
The Bedroom Window
The Bedroom Window is a 1987 neo-noir thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson, in which Steve Guttenberg becomes entangled in a murder investigation after witnessing an attack from his lover’s apartment.
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C.
God’s Window
God’s Window is a famous scenic viewpoint along South Africa’s Panorama Route, offering dramatic cliffside vistas over lush forests and the Lowveld in Mpumalanga.
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D.
A Lamp in a Window
"A Lamp in a Window" is a track from the 1980 experimental jazz-fusion album *Music for Chameleons* by British musician Gary Numan.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- 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 High Window Target entity description: The High Window is a 1942 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a case involving a missing rare coin and a wealthy, troubled family.
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A.
The Light Behind the Window
The Light Behind the Window is a historical fiction novel by Lucinda Riley that intertwines past and present through a family mystery set partly in wartime France.
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B.
The Bedroom Window
The Bedroom Window is a 1987 neo-noir thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson, in which Steve Guttenberg becomes entangled in a murder investigation after witnessing an attack from his lover’s apartment.
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C.
God’s Window
God’s Window is a famous scenic viewpoint along South Africa’s Panorama Route, offering dramatic cliffside vistas over lush forests and the Lowveld in Mpumalanga.
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D.
A Lamp in a Window
"A Lamp in a Window" is a track from the 1980 experimental jazz-fusion album *Music for Chameleons* by British musician Gary Numan.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hardboiled detective novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Raymond Chandler ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| featuresGenreElement | noir atmosphere ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Lady in the Lake ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | private investigator ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
greed ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ urban crime ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalPublisherCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| plotElement |
missing rare coin
ⓘ
wealthy troubled family ⓘ |
| precededBy | Farewell, My Lovely ⓘ |
| protagonist | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| series |
Philip Marlowe
ⓘ
surface form:
Philip Marlowe series
|
| settingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 1940s ⓘ |
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 High Window Description of subject: The High Window is a 1942 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a case involving a missing rare coin and a wealthy, troubled family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.