Black Light
E1016344
Black Light is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter featuring Vietnam War veteran and expert sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a decades-old conspiracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Light canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12996228 — 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: Black Light Context triple: [Bob Lee Swagger, appearsInSeries, Black Light]
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A.
More Light
More Light is a 2013 studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream that blends alternative rock, psychedelia, and experimental sounds.
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B.
Dark Light
Dark Light is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod, set in his Engines of Light universe and known for its blend of space opera, political intrigue, and speculative cosmology.
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C.
White Light
White Light is a significant artwork by Australian artist and filmmaker George Gittoes, known for his politically charged and war-themed visual narratives.
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D.
White Light
"White Light" is a 1971 country-rock album by American singer-songwriter Gene Clark, acclaimed for its introspective songwriting and understated, folk-influenced sound.
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E.
One Light
"One Light" is a song by Dutch electronic music producer and DJ Jordi.
- 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: Black Light Target entity description: Black Light is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter featuring Vietnam War veteran and expert sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a decades-old conspiracy.
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A.
More Light
More Light is a 2013 studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream that blends alternative rock, psychedelia, and experimental sounds.
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B.
Dark Light
Dark Light is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod, set in his Engines of Light universe and known for its blend of space opera, political intrigue, and speculative cosmology.
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C.
White Light
White Light is a significant artwork by Australian artist and filmmaker George Gittoes, known for his politically charged and war-themed visual narratives.
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D.
White Light
"White Light" is a 1971 country-rock album by American singer-songwriter Gene Clark, acclaimed for its introspective songwriting and understated, folk-influenced sound.
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E.
One Light
"One Light" is a song by Dutch electronic music producer and DJ Jordi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Hunter ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| followedBy | Time to Hunt ⓘ |
| followsWork | Dirty White Boys ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
legacy of war ⓘ truth-seeking ⓘ violence and its consequences ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| literarySeriesCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Bob Lee Swagger ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | investigation of a decades-old conspiracy ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| plotElement |
government conspiracy
ⓘ
reopening of an old murder case ⓘ |
| precededBy | Dirty White Boys ⓘ |
| protagonistBackground | Vietnam War veteran ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | sniper ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| series | Bob Lee Swagger series ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| subject |
Vietnam War veterans
ⓘ
conspiracy ⓘ sniping ⓘ |
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: Black Light Description of subject: Black Light is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter featuring Vietnam War veteran and expert sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he investigates a decades-old conspiracy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.