The Potter’s Field
E287477
The Potter’s Field is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, featuring the medieval monk-sleuth investigating a body found in a field once used for burying strangers and the poor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Potter’s Field canonical | 2 |
| The Potter's Field | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2684118 — 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 Potter’s Field Context triple: [Ellis Peters, notableWork, The Potter’s Field]
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A.
The Grave
"The Grave" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, featuring a tense Western ghost story about a lawman who must confront the vengeful spirit of an outlaw he failed to capture alive.
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B.
God’s Acre
God’s Acre is a traditional term, especially used by Moravian and some Protestant communities, for a church-owned burial ground regarded as consecrated resting place for the dead.
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C.
The Happy Hunting-Grounds
The Happy Hunting-Grounds is a travel and adventure book by Kermit Roosevelt recounting his experiences and observations during expeditions in the American West.
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D.
Asylum Hill
Asylum Hill is a historic neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, known for its Victorian architecture, major insurance company headquarters, and cultural institutions.
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E.
Home Burial
Home Burial is a narrative poem by Robert Frost that portrays the emotional estrangement of a grieving couple after the death of their child.
- 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 Potter’s Field Target entity description: The Potter’s Field is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, featuring the medieval monk-sleuth investigating a body found in a field once used for burying strangers and the poor.
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A.
The Grave
"The Grave" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, featuring a tense Western ghost story about a lawman who must confront the vengeful spirit of an outlaw he failed to capture alive.
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B.
God’s Acre
God’s Acre is a traditional term, especially used by Moravian and some Protestant communities, for a church-owned burial ground regarded as consecrated resting place for the dead.
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C.
The Happy Hunting-Grounds
The Happy Hunting-Grounds is a travel and adventure book by Kermit Roosevelt recounting his experiences and observations during expeditions in the American West.
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D.
Asylum Hill
Asylum Hill is a historic neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, known for its Victorian architecture, major insurance company headquarters, and cultural institutions.
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E.
Home Burial
Home Burial is a narrative poem by Robert Frost that portrays the emotional estrangement of a grieving couple after the death of their child.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brother Cadfael novel
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crime novel ⓘ historical mystery novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Ellis Peters ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Brother Cadfael
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Hugh Beringar ⓘ |
| featuresInstitution | Shrewsbury Abbey ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasDetective | Brother Cadfael ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
charity and Christian duty
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identity and anonymity ⓘ justice ⓘ land and property rights ⓘ social class and poverty ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literarySeriesNumber |
Brother Cadfael series
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linked to:
The Cadfael Chronicles
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| mainCharacter | Brother Cadfael ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf |
Brother Cadfael series
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linked to:
The Cadfael Chronicles
|
| plotElement |
burial ground for strangers and the poor
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discovery of a body in a potter’s field ⓘ investigation of an unidentified corpse ⓘ land ownership dispute ⓘ monastic life at Shrewsbury Abbey ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | Benedictine monk ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | amateur detective ⓘ |
| series | Brother Cadfael ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
England
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Shrewsbury ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfAction | reign of King Stephen ⓘ |
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 Potter’s Field Description of subject: The Potter’s Field is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, featuring the medieval monk-sleuth investigating a body found in a field once used for burying strangers and the poor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Potter’s Field