The Ex
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The Ex is a crime novel by American author Alafair Burke that follows a defense attorney drawn into a complex case involving her former fiancé, who is accused of a deadly shooting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6401343 — 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 Ex Context triple: [Alafair Burke, notableWork, The Ex]
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A.
The Ex
The Ex is a large annual summer fair and exhibition held in Toronto, Ontario, featuring rides, games, concerts, and a wide variety of food and attractions.
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B.
Hollywood Exes
Hollywood Exes is a VH1 reality television series that follows the lives of the ex-wives of famous Hollywood celebrities, including Nicole Mitchell Murphy.
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C.
Case of the Ex
"Case of the Ex" is a 2000 R&B breakup anthem by American singer Mýa, known for its catchy hook, assertive lyrics, and success as one of her signature hits.
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D.
The Other Woman
The Other Woman is a 2014 American comedy film about three women who discover they are all romantically involved with the same man and team up to get revenge.
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E.
D’eux
D’eux is a hugely successful French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, widely regarded as one of the best-selling Francophone albums of all time.
- 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 Ex Target entity description: The Ex is a crime novel by American author Alafair Burke that follows a defense attorney drawn into a complex case involving her former fiancé, who is accused of a deadly shooting.
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A.
The Ex
The Ex is a large annual summer fair and exhibition held in Toronto, Ontario, featuring rides, games, concerts, and a wide variety of food and attractions.
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B.
Hollywood Exes
Hollywood Exes is a VH1 reality television series that follows the lives of the ex-wives of famous Hollywood celebrities, including Nicole Mitchell Murphy.
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C.
Case of the Ex
"Case of the Ex" is a 2000 R&B breakup anthem by American singer Mýa, known for its catchy hook, assertive lyrics, and success as one of her signature hits.
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D.
The Other Woman
The Other Woman is a 2014 American comedy film about three women who discover they are all romantically involved with the same man and team up to get revenge.
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E.
D’eux
D’eux is a hugely successful French-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, widely regarded as one of the best-selling Francophone albums of all time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Alafair Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel ⓘ |
| centralPlotElement |
criminal defense case
ⓘ
deadly shooting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
legal thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Jack Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Olivia Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | defense attorney ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | standalone novel ⓘ |
| protagonistRelationship | former fiancé ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| theme |
guilt
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moral ambiguity ⓘ redemption ⓘ trust ⓘ |
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 Ex Description of subject: The Ex is a crime novel by American author Alafair Burke that follows a defense attorney drawn into a complex case involving her former fiancé, who is accused of a deadly shooting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.