On a Darkling Plain
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"On a Darkling Plain" is a novel by American author Clifford Irving, best known for its dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| On a Darkling Plain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021304 — 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: On a Darkling Plain Context triple: [Clifford Irving, notableWork, On a Darkling Plain]
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A.
Winter in the Blood
"Winter in the Blood" is a seminal novel by James Welch that helped define the Native American Renaissance through its stark, introspective portrayal of contemporary Native life and identity on the Montana Hi-Line.
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B.
The Dirge
The Dirge is a somber, introspective section of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety,” reflecting the work’s themes of spiritual crisis and postwar disillusionment.
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C.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
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D.
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection Strange Pilgrims, that follows a young Colombian couple in Europe whose honeymoon turns tragic after a minor injury leads to a mysterious and fatal medical ordeal.
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E.
The Soldier
The Soldier is a famous World War I sonnet by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealistically reflects on patriotism, sacrifice, and the notion of an English soldier’s death abroad.
- 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: On a Darkling Plain Target entity description: "On a Darkling Plain" is a novel by American author Clifford Irving, best known for its dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
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A.
Winter in the Blood
"Winter in the Blood" is a seminal novel by James Welch that helped define the Native American Renaissance through its stark, introspective portrayal of contemporary Native life and identity on the Montana Hi-Line.
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B.
The Dirge
The Dirge is a somber, introspective section of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety,” reflecting the work’s themes of spiritual crisis and postwar disillusionment.
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C.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
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D.
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection Strange Pilgrims, that follows a young Colombian couple in Europe whose honeymoon turns tragic after a minor injury leads to a mysterious and fatal medical ordeal.
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E.
The Soldier
The Soldier is a famous World War I sonnet by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealistically reflects on patriotism, sacrifice, and the notion of an English soldier’s death abroad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Clifford Irving ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
dark fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Clifford Irving ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTitle | On a Darkling Plain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor | dark psychologically driven storytelling ⓘ |
| workOf | Clifford Irving ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Clifford Irving ⓘ |
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: On a Darkling Plain Description of subject: "On a Darkling Plain" is a novel by American author Clifford Irving, best known for its dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.