Rather Be the Devil
E809970
Rather Be the Devil is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, featuring the retired detective drawn into a cold-case murder investigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rather Be the Devil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9607204 — 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: Rather Be the Devil Context triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, Rather Be the Devil]
-
A.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
-
B.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
-
C.
Shout at the Devil
Shout at the Devil is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set in German East Africa during World War I, blending high-stakes action with historical drama.
-
D.
A Devil Is Waiting
A Devil Is Waiting is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring international intrigue, political assassination plots, and his recurring character Sean Dillon.
-
E.
Who The Devil Made It
"Who The Devil Made It" is a book by filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich that collects in-depth interviews with classic Hollywood directors, exploring their careers and the art of filmmaking.
- 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: Rather Be the Devil Target entity description: Rather Be the Devil is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, featuring the retired detective drawn into a cold-case murder investigation.
-
A.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
-
B.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
-
C.
Shout at the Devil
Shout at the Devil is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set in German East Africa during World War I, blending high-stakes action with historical drama.
-
D.
A Devil Is Waiting
A Devil Is Waiting is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring international intrigue, political assassination plots, and his recurring character Sean Dillon.
-
E.
Who The Devil Made It
"Who The Devil Made It" is a book by filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich that collects in-depth interviews with classic Hollywood directors, exploring their careers and the art of filmmaking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Malcolm Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siobhan Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterStatus | retired detective ⓘ |
| featuresGenreElement | police procedural ⓘ |
| followedBy | In a House of Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | police detective (retired) ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
aging
ⓘ
cold cases ⓘ corruption ⓘ justice ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Inspector Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century Scottish literature ⓘ |
| literarySeriesCharacter | Inspector Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | John Rebus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Inspector Rebus series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement | cold-case murder investigation ⓘ |
| precededBy | Even Dogs in the Wild NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 2010s ⓘ |
| publisher | Orion Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesNumberInInspectorRebus | 21 ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Ian Rankin 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: Rather Be the Devil Description of subject: Rather Be the Devil is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, featuring the retired detective drawn into a cold-case murder investigation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.