The Double Shadow
E741585
The Double Shadow is a young adult novel by British author Sally Gardner that blends historical fiction with elements of fantasy and science fiction, exploring memory, identity, and the impact of war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Double Shadow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8504329 — 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 Double Shadow Context triple: [Sally Gardner, notableWork, The Double Shadow]
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A.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
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B.
The Shadow Knows
"The Shadow Knows" is a 1960 novelty R&B song by The Coasters that plays off the famous catchphrase from the old-time radio drama "The Shadow."
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C.
The Shadow Box
The Shadow Box is a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by Michael Cristofer that explores the emotional lives of terminally ill patients and their families in a hospice setting.
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D.
Shadow on the Wall
Shadow on the Wall is a 1950 American film noir psychological thriller in which Gigi Perreau plays a key child role central to the story’s mystery.
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E.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
- 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 Double Shadow Target entity description: The Double Shadow is a young adult novel by British author Sally Gardner that blends historical fiction with elements of fantasy and science fiction, exploring memory, identity, and the impact of war.
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A.
The Red Shadow
The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
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B.
The Shadow Knows
"The Shadow Knows" is a 1960 novelty R&B song by The Coasters that plays off the famous catchphrase from the old-time radio drama "The Shadow."
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C.
The Shadow Box
The Shadow Box is a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by Michael Cristofer that explores the emotional lives of terminally ill patients and their families in a hospice setting.
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D.
Shadow on the Wall
Shadow on the Wall is a 1950 American film noir psychological thriller in which Gigi Perreau plays a key child role central to the story’s mystery.
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E.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Sally Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
family secrets
ⓘ
psychological effects of war ⓘ the nature of reality ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
British fantasy novels
ⓘ
British science fiction novels ⓘ British young adult novels ⓘ |
| hasElement |
alternate realities
ⓘ
memory manipulation ⓘ time-bending technology ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
identity
ⓘ
memory ⓘ war and its impact ⓘ |
| mediaType | book ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | coming-of-age ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationFormat | print ⓘ |
| publisher | Orion Children’s Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
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 Double Shadow Description of subject: The Double Shadow is a young adult novel by British author Sally Gardner that blends historical fiction with elements of fantasy and science fiction, exploring memory, identity, and the impact of war.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sally Gardner