The Passenger
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The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Passenger canonical | 13 |
| The Passenger (2022 novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902798 — 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 Passenger Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, The Passenger]
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A.
Passengers
Passengers is an experimental music project formed by U2 and producer Brian Eno, known for its atmospheric, soundtrack-style compositions.
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B.
Passengers
Passengers is a 2016 science fiction romance film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt as space travelers who awaken prematurely from hibernation on an interstellar voyage.
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C.
The Tourist
The Tourist is a 2010 romantic thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, involving mistaken identity and international intrigue across Paris and Venice.
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D.
Passenger 57
Passenger 57 is a 1992 American action thriller film starring Wesley Snipes as an airline security expert who must thwart a terrorist hijacking mid-flight.
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E.
Butterfield 8
Butterfield 8 is a 1960 drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor as a troubled New York call girl, a role that earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
- 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 Passenger Target entity description: The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
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A.
Passengers
Passengers is an experimental music project formed by U2 and producer Brian Eno, known for its atmospheric, soundtrack-style compositions.
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B.
Passengers
Passengers is a 2016 science fiction romance film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt as space travelers who awaken prematurely from hibernation on an interstellar voyage.
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C.
The Tourist
The Tourist is a 2010 romantic thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, involving mistaken identity and international intrigue across Paris and Venice.
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D.
Passenger 57
Passenger 57 is a 1992 American action thriller film starring Wesley Snipes as an airline security expert who must thwart a terrorist hijacking mid-flight.
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E.
Butterfield 8
Butterfield 8 is a 1960 drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor as a troubled New York call girl, a role that earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| authorWorkPosition | late-career novel of Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| character | Alicia Western ⓘ |
| characterRelation | Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister ⓘ |
| containsElement |
Cold War-era anxieties
ⓘ
mathematical and scientific references ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ philosophical novel ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Stella Maris ⓘ |
| isPartOf | The Passenger–Stella Maris duology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Bobby Western ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ hardcover ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | aftermath of a sister’s suicide ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableAspect | published after a long gap since McCarthy’s previous novel ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Road ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | salvage diver ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2022-10-25 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Stella Maris ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
New Orleans
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingTime | 1980s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
ethics
ⓘ
government secrecy ⓘ mental illness ⓘ quantum physics ⓘ salvage operation of a downed airplane ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| theme |
family relationships
ⓘ
grief ⓘ guilt ⓘ memory ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ philosophical inquiry ⓘ suicide ⓘ the nature of reality ⓘ |
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 Passenger Description of subject: The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.
subject linked to:
Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister
subject linked to:
Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister
linked to: The Passenger