Dark Places
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Dark Places is a 2009 psychological thriller novel by Gillian Flynn that follows a woman reexamining the childhood massacre of her family and the possibility that her imprisoned brother may be innocent.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dark Places canonical | 6 |
| Dark Places (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13549949 — 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: Dark Places Context triple: [Gillian Flynn, notableWork, Dark Places]
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A.
Cold Dark Place
Cold Dark Place is an EP by the American metal band Mastodon that showcases a more melodic and atmospheric side of their sound.
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B.
The Dark Below
The Dark Below is the first major expansion for the sci-fi shooter game Destiny, adding new story missions, a raid, and additional gear centered around the Hive enemy faction.
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C.
Dark Exile
Dark Exile is a pivotal lore event in the Diablo universe in which the Prime Evils are banished from Hell and imprisoned within soulstones on Sanctuary.
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D.
Dreadful Sanctuary
Dreadful Sanctuary is a science fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell that blends mystery and paranoia in a story about a man uncovering a conspiracy that challenges the very nature of humanity and reality.
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E.
In Darkness
In Darkness is a 2011 Polish drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland that tells the true story of Jews hiding in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lwów during the Holocaust.
- 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: Dark Places Target entity description: Dark Places is a 2009 psychological thriller novel by Gillian Flynn that follows a woman reexamining the childhood massacre of her family and the possibility that her imprisoned brother may be innocent.
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A.
Cold Dark Place
Cold Dark Place is an EP by the American metal band Mastodon that showcases a more melodic and atmospheric side of their sound.
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B.
The Dark Below
The Dark Below is the first major expansion for the sci-fi shooter game Destiny, adding new story missions, a raid, and additional gear centered around the Hive enemy faction.
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C.
Dark Exile
Dark Exile is a pivotal lore event in the Diablo universe in which the Prime Evils are banished from Hell and imprisoned within soulstones on Sanctuary.
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D.
Dreadful Sanctuary
Dreadful Sanctuary is a science fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell that blends mystery and paranoia in a story about a man uncovering a conspiracy that challenges the very nature of humanity and reality.
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E.
In Darkness
In Darkness is a 2011 Polish drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland that tells the true story of Jews hiding in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lwów during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ psychological thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Dark Places (film)
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linked to:
Dark Places (2015 film)
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| author | Gillian Flynn ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dark Places ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Gilles Paquet-Brenner ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
family violence
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media sensationalism ⓘ memory and trauma ⓘ poverty and rural hardship ⓘ satanic panic ⓘ |
| followedBy | Gone Girl ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination | 2010 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Ben Day
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Patty Day ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Libby Day ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
crime fiction
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domestic noir ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0307341569 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780307341563 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marketedAs | adult fiction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear timeline ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of satanic ritual abuse hysteria in the 1980s United States
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unreliable memories of a child witness ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Dark Places ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 350 pages ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
investigation of a possibly wrongful conviction
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reexamination of a family massacre ⓘ |
| precededBy | Sharp Objects ⓘ |
| protagonistAgeAtPresentTimeline | early thirties ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | unemployed drifter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Crown Publishing Group
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linked to:
Crown Publishers
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| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| setting |
Kansas
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| stars | Charlize Theron ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfEvents |
1985
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approximately 24 years after the massacre ⓘ |
| toldFromPerspective |
first-person perspective of Libby Day
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third-person perspectives of Patty Day and Ben Day ⓘ |
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: Dark Places Description of subject: Dark Places is a 2009 psychological thriller novel by Gillian Flynn that follows a woman reexamining the childhood massacre of her family and the possibility that her imprisoned brother may be innocent.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.