The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch
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The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a darkly whimsical fantasy story by Neil Gaiman about a mysterious, transformative night at a bizarre underground circus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875516 — 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 Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch Context triple: [Smoke and Mirrors, containsWork, The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch]
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A.
The Case of Mrs. Clive
"The Case of Mrs. Clive" is a work associated with 18th-century English actress and comic performer Kitty Clive, reflecting her prominence and controversies in the Georgian theatrical world.
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B.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which Gregory Peck plays a defense attorney entangled in a complex murder trial involving a beautiful widow.
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C.
The Case of the Sulky Girl
The Case of the Sulky Girl is an early Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner, featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder case involving a wealthy young woman.
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D.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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E.
The Case of the Curious Bride
The Case of the Curious Bride is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason as he unravels a complex murder mystery involving a seemingly widowed woman.
- 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 Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch Target entity description: The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a darkly whimsical fantasy story by Neil Gaiman about a mysterious, transformative night at a bizarre underground circus.
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A.
The Case of Mrs. Clive
"The Case of Mrs. Clive" is a work associated with 18th-century English actress and comic performer Kitty Clive, reflecting her prominence and controversies in the Georgian theatrical world.
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B.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which Gregory Peck plays a defense attorney entangled in a complex murder trial involving a beautiful widow.
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C.
The Case of the Sulky Girl
The Case of the Sulky Girl is an early Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner, featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder case involving a wealthy young woman.
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D.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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E.
The Case of the Curious Bride
The Case of the Curious Bride is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason as he unravels a complex murder mystery involving a seemingly widowed woman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark fantasy work
ⓘ
fantasy story ⓘ novella ⓘ |
| adaptation | graphic novel adaptation ⓘ |
| author | Neil Gaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ short fiction ⓘ |
| hasIllustrator | Michael Zulli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Miss Finch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Miss Finch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
graphic novel
ⓘ
prose ⓘ |
| motif |
circus
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illusion ⓘ underground world ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOf | Neil Gaiman short fiction bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Dark Horse Comics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
underground circus ⓘ |
| theme |
disappearance
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mystery ⓘ performance ⓘ the uncanny ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| tone | darkly whimsical ⓘ |
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 Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch Description of subject: The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a darkly whimsical fantasy story by Neil Gaiman about a mysterious, transformative night at a bizarre underground circus.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.