Sidetracked
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"Sidetracked" is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring detective Kurt Wallander as he investigates a series of brutal murders in southern Sweden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sidetracked canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7651901 — 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: Sidetracked Context triple: [Henning Mankell, notableWork, Sidetracked]
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A.
Road to Nowhere
"Road to Nowhere" is a 1985 song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, known for its upbeat sound paired with lyrics about uncertainty and the future.
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B.
Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere is a 2010 neo-noir mystery film directed by Monte Hellman that blurs the line between reality and fiction through a movie-within-a-movie narrative.
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C.
The Road You Didn’t Take
"The Road You Didn’t Take" is a reflective song from Stephen Sondheim’s musical *Follies* in which the character Ben contemplates the choices and paths he did not pursue in life.
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D.
Just Missed the Train
"Just Missed the Train" is a pop-rock song best known from Kelly Clarkson’s 2003 debut album "Thankful," noted for its emotive vocals and introspective lyrics.
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E.
Only One Road
"Only One Road" is a pop ballad by Celine Dion featured on her 1993 album *The Colour of My Love*.
- 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: Sidetracked Target entity description: "Sidetracked" is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring detective Kurt Wallander as he investigates a series of brutal murders in southern Sweden.
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A.
Road to Nowhere
"Road to Nowhere" is a 1985 song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, known for its upbeat sound paired with lyrics about uncertainty and the future.
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B.
Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere is a 2010 neo-noir mystery film directed by Monte Hellman that blurs the line between reality and fiction through a movie-within-a-movie narrative.
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C.
The Road You Didn’t Take
"The Road You Didn’t Take" is a reflective song from Stephen Sondheim’s musical *Follies* in which the character Ben contemplates the choices and paths he did not pursue in life.
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D.
Just Missed the Train
"Just Missed the Train" is a pop-rock song best known from Kelly Clarkson’s 2003 debut album "Thankful," noted for its emotive vocals and introspective lyrics.
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E.
Only One Road
"Only One Road" is a pop ballad by Celine Dion featured on her 1993 album *The Colour of My Love*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | episode of Wallander television series ⓘ |
| author | Henning Mankell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Gold Dagger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardGivenBy | Crime Writers Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Kurt Wallander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGenreElement | psychological crime ⓘ |
| featuresOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
police procedural
ⓘ
serial murder investigation ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Fifth Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The White Lioness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Sidetracked (TV adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Swedish police officers
ⓘ
crime victims ⓘ serial killer ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Sidetracked NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9789173245822 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Swedish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Nordic noir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kurt Wallander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Villospår NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kurt Wallander series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Kurt Wallander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ordfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Kurt Wallander series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| settingCity | Ystad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | southern Sweden ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Skåne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translator | Steven T. Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sidetracked Description of subject: "Sidetracked" is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring detective Kurt Wallander as he investigates a series of brutal murders in southern Sweden.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.