The Client (novel)
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The Client is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows an eleven-year-old boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous battle between the FBI and the Mafia after learning a deadly secret.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Client | 2 |
| The Client (novel) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7630970 — 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 Client (novel) Context triple: [The Client, basedOn, The Client (novel)]
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A.
The Client
"The Client" is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in a tense courtroom and mob drama.
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B.
The Client (TV series)
The Client is an American legal drama television series based on John Grisham’s novel about a young boy entangled in a dangerous legal conspiracy.
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C.
The Client (1994 film)
The Client is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham’s novel, following a young boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous mob-related legal case and the lawyer who tries to protect him.
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D.
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British art-house mystery film by Peter Greenaway, noted for its stylized visuals, intricate plotting, and exploration of power, perception, and authorship.
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E.
The Applicant
The Applicant is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of gender roles, identity, and the commodification of women in marriage.
- 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 Client (novel) Target entity description: The Client is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows an eleven-year-old boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous battle between the FBI and the Mafia after learning a deadly secret.
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A.
The Client
"The Client" is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in a tense courtroom and mob drama.
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B.
The Client (TV series)
The Client is an American legal drama television series based on John Grisham’s novel about a young boy entangled in a dangerous legal conspiracy.
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C.
The Client (1994 film)
The Client is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham’s novel, following a young boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous mob-related legal case and the lawyer who tries to protect him.
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D.
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British art-house mystery film by Peter Greenaway, noted for its stylized visuals, intricate plotting, and exploration of power, perception, and authorship.
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E.
The Applicant
The Applicant is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of gender roles, identity, and the commodification of women in marriage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal thriller
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Client (1994 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Client (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | John Grisham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | battle between the FBI and the Mafia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| filmAdaptationDirector | Joel Schumacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Chamber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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legal thriller ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Barry Muldanno
NERFINISHED
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Mark Sway NERFINISHED ⓘ Reggie Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Foltrigg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a child caught between law enforcement and the Mafia ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | John Grisham bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement | young boy learns a deadly secret ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Pelican Brief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | 11 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setIn |
Memphis, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
child endangerment
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justice system ⓘ legal ethics ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| tvSeriesDebutYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| tvSeriesEndYear | 1996 ⓘ |
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 Client (novel) Description of subject: The Client is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows an eleven-year-old boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous battle between the FBI and the Mafia after learning a deadly secret.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Grisham
this entity surface form:
The Client
this entity surface form:
The Client