The Mystery on the Desert
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The Mystery on the Desert is a book by mathematician and archaeologist Maria Reiche that popularizes and interprets the enigmatic Nazca Lines in Peru.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mystery on the Desert canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2717526 — 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 Mystery on the Desert Context triple: [Maria Reiche, notableWork, The Mystery on the Desert]
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A.
Last Days in the Desert
Last Days in the Desert is a 2015 independent drama film that imagines a spiritually charged encounter between Jesus and a family in the desert during his 40 days of fasting and temptation.
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B.
Five Graves to Cairo
Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film directed by Billy Wilder, noted for its suspenseful plot involving a British soldier stranded in a desert hotel occupied by German forces.
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C.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
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D.
The Great Diamond Robbery
The Great Diamond Robbery is a 1954 American comedy film starring Red Skelton as a bumbling clerk entangled in a jewel theft scheme.
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E.
Deadly Desert
The Deadly Desert is a vast, impassable wasteland of lethal sands that isolates the magical Land of Oz from the surrounding world in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
- 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 Mystery on the Desert Target entity description: The Mystery on the Desert is a book by mathematician and archaeologist Maria Reiche that popularizes and interprets the enigmatic Nazca Lines in Peru.
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A.
Last Days in the Desert
Last Days in the Desert is a 2015 independent drama film that imagines a spiritually charged encounter between Jesus and a family in the desert during his 40 days of fasting and temptation.
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B.
Five Graves to Cairo
Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film directed by Billy Wilder, noted for its suspenseful plot involving a British soldier stranded in a desert hotel occupied by German forces.
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C.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
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D.
The Great Diamond Robbery
The Great Diamond Robbery is a 1954 American comedy film starring Red Skelton as a bumbling clerk entangled in a jewel theft scheme.
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E.
Deadly Desert
The Deadly Desert is a vast, impassable wasteland of lethal sands that isolates the magical Land of Oz from the surrounding world in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| about |
geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert
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interpretation of Nazca Lines ⓘ preservation of Nazca Lines ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
popularize Nazca Lines research
ⓘ
raise awareness of conservation issues ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nazca culture
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Peruvian archaeology ⓘ |
| author | Maria Reiche ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Peru ⓘ |
| describes |
animal-shaped Nazca geoglyphs
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astronomical alignments hypothesis ⓘ geometric Nazca geoglyphs ⓘ |
| focusesOnLocation | Nazca Desert ⓘ |
| focusesOnRegion | Ica Region ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | German ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
archaeologist
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ |
| hasAuthorResidence | Peru ⓘ |
| hasPhotographs | true ⓘ |
| illustrator | Maria Reiche ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Nazca Lines
ⓘ
archaeoastronomy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aerial and ground surveys of geoglyphs
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early systematic mapping of Nazca Lines ⓘ |
| publicationPlace | Lima ⓘ |
| publisher | Editorial Ausonia ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Mystery on the Desert Description of subject: The Mystery on the Desert is a book by mathematician and archaeologist Maria Reiche that popularizes and interprets the enigmatic Nazca Lines in Peru.
Referenced by (1)
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