The Trail of the Beast
E84835
The Trail of the Beast is a lesser-known adventure and mystery work by early 20th-century writer Achmed Abdullah, reflecting his characteristic blend of exotic settings and suspenseful plotting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Trail of the Beast canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T671836 — 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 Trail of the Beast Context triple: [Achmed Abdullah, notableWork, The Trail of the Beast]
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A.
The Mountain Shadow
The Mountain Shadow is a novel by Gregory David Roberts that continues the adventures of Lin, an Australian fugitive navigating the criminal underworld and spiritual quests in India, serving as the sequel to Shantaram.
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B.
Le Blaireau
Le Blaireau is the famous nickname of Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist and multiple Tour de France winner.
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C.
The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 atmospheric horror film in which Peter Lorre stars in a macabre tale about a disembodied hand terrorizing a secluded Italian mansion.
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D.
La Distribution des Aigles
La Distribution des Aigles is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting depicting Napoleon ceremonially presenting imperial eagles to his troops.
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E.
Twilight in the Wilderness
"Twilight in the Wilderness" is a celebrated 1860 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic sunset sky and luminous depiction of the American wilderness.
- 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 Trail of the Beast Target entity description: The Trail of the Beast is a lesser-known adventure and mystery work by early 20th-century writer Achmed Abdullah, reflecting his characteristic blend of exotic settings and suspenseful plotting.
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A.
The Mountain Shadow
The Mountain Shadow is a novel by Gregory David Roberts that continues the adventures of Lin, an Australian fugitive navigating the criminal underworld and spiritual quests in India, serving as the sequel to Shantaram.
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B.
Le Blaireau
Le Blaireau is the famous nickname of Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist and multiple Tour de France winner.
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C.
The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 atmospheric horror film in which Peter Lorre stars in a macabre tale about a disembodied hand terrorizing a secluded Italian mansion.
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D.
La Distribution des Aigles
La Distribution des Aigles is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting depicting Napoleon ceremonially presenting imperial eagles to his troops.
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E.
Twilight in the Wilderness
"Twilight in the Wilderness" is a celebrated 1860 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic sunset sky and luminous depiction of the American wilderness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| author | Achmed Abdullah ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
adventure fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorStyleCharacteristic | blend of exotic settings and suspenseful plotting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adventure
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mystery ⓘ suspense ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | suspenseful plotting ⓘ |
| notability | lesser-known work ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Trail of the Beast self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| settingCharacteristic | exotic settings ⓘ |
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 Trail of the Beast Description of subject: The Trail of the Beast is a lesser-known adventure and mystery work by early 20th-century writer Achmed Abdullah, reflecting his characteristic blend of exotic settings and suspenseful plotting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Achmed Abdullah