A Slight Trick of the Mind

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A Slight Trick of the Mind is a novel by Mitch Cullin that portrays an elderly, retired Sherlock Holmes grappling with memory loss as he revisits an unresolved case from his past.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
A Slight Trick of the Mind canonical 3

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
adaptationDirector Bill Condon NERFINISHED
adaptationLeadActor Ian McKellen NERFINISHED
adaptationReleaseYear 2015
adaptationType feature film
author Mitch Cullin NERFINISHED
basedOnCharacterCreatedBy Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts elderly Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Mrs. Munro NERFINISHED
Roger Munro NERFINISHED
Tamiki Umezaki NERFINISHED
genre literary fiction
mystery novel
hasAdaptation Mr. Holmes NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativeFocus Holmes’s memory loss
an unresolved past case
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
publicationCentury 21st century
publisher Nan A. Talese NERFINISHED
settingPlace England NERFINISHED
Japan NERFINISHED
Sussex NERFINISHED
settingTime post-World War II period
theme aging
identity
memory
regret

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: A Slight Trick of the Mind
Description of subject: A Slight Trick of the Mind is a novel by Mitch Cullin that portrays an elderly, retired Sherlock Holmes grappling with memory loss as he revisits an unresolved case from his past.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mr. Holmes (2015 film) basedOn A Slight Trick of the Mind
subject surface form: Mr. Holmes
Mitch Cullin notableWork A Slight Trick of the Mind
Mitch Cullin basedOn A Slight Trick of the Mind
subject surface form: Mr. Holmes (film)