The Black Book
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The Black Book is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, known for its dark Edinburgh setting and intricate, long-buried secrets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Black Book canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9607188 — 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 Black Book Context triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, The Black Book]
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The Black Book
The Black Book is a postmodern novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk that blends mystery, philosophical reflection, and Istanbul’s labyrinthine atmosphere to explore identity and storytelling.
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The Black Book
The Black Book is a film featuring Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior in its cast.
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C.
The Black Book
The Black Book is a 1949 American film noir thriller (also known as Reign of Terror) set during the French Revolution, noted for its dark, expressionistic style and political intrigue.
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The Brown Book
The Brown Book is one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published lecture notes that outline his transitional philosophical ideas between the Tractatus and his later work in the Philosophical Investigations.
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الركن الأسود
الركن الأسود هو أحد أركان الكعبة المشرفة الذي يضم الحجر الأسود ويُعد موضعًا ذا قدسية خاصة في الشعائر الإسلامية.
- 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 Black Book Target entity description: The Black Book is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, known for its dark Edinburgh setting and intricate, long-buried secrets.
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A.
The Black Book
The Black Book is a postmodern novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk that blends mystery, philosophical reflection, and Istanbul’s labyrinthine atmosphere to explore identity and storytelling.
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B.
The Black Book
The Black Book is a film featuring Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior in its cast.
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C.
The Black Book
The Black Book is a 1949 American film noir thriller (also known as Reign of Terror) set during the French Revolution, noted for its dark, expressionistic style and political intrigue.
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D.
The Brown Book
The Brown Book is one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published lecture notes that outline his transitional philosophical ideas between the Tractatus and his later work in the Philosophical Investigations.
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E.
الركن الأسود
الركن الأسود هو أحد أركان الكعبة المشرفة الذي يضم الحجر الأسود ويُعد موضعًا ذا قدسية خاصة في الشعائر الإسلامية.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToLiteraryMovement | Tartan Noir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMysteryType |
cold case
ⓘ
unsolved crime ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Brian Holmes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siobhan Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ hardback ⓘ paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasInspectorRebusSeriesContinuity |
develops Rebus’s character arc
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expands recurring Edinburgh setting ⓘ |
| hasItemInPlot |
black notebook
ⓘ
mysterious notebook ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | Tartan Noir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
long-buried secrets
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memory and the past ⓘ organized crime ⓘ police corruption ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
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gritty ⓘ noir ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySeriesCreator | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Inspector John Rebus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex, interwoven plotlines
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dark depiction of Edinburgh ⓘ exploration of Edinburgh’s criminal underworld ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Inspector Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAffiliation | Lothian and Borders Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| publisher | Orion Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesNumberInInspectorRebus | fifth novel ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Black Book Description of subject: The Black Book is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, known for its dark Edinburgh setting and intricate, long-buried secrets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.