Blood Work
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Blood Work is a crime thriller novel by Michael Connelly featuring retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, who investigates the murder of the woman whose heart he received in a transplant.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blood Work canonical | 8 |
| Blood Work (film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682165 — 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: Blood Work Context triple: [Michael Connelly, notableWork, Blood Work]
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A.
Next of Kin
Next of Kin is a 1989 American action thriller film starring Patrick Swayze as a Chicago cop seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder.
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B.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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C.
Bodily Harm
"Bodily Harm" is a psychological novel by Margaret Atwood that follows a jaded journalist whose trip to a Caribbean island draws her into political turmoil and forces her to confront violence, vulnerability, and control.
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D.
The Hunt
The Hunt is a BBC nature documentary series that explores the dramatic strategies predators and prey use to survive in the wild.
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E.
The Body
"The Body" is a coming-of-age novella by Stephen King, best known as the basis for the 1986 film "Stand by Me."
- 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: Blood Work Target entity description: Blood Work is a crime thriller novel by Michael Connelly featuring retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, who investigates the murder of the woman whose heart he received in a transplant.
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A.
Next of Kin
Next of Kin is a 1989 American action thriller film starring Patrick Swayze as a Chicago cop seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder.
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B.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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C.
Bodily Harm
"Bodily Harm" is a psychological novel by Margaret Atwood that follows a jaded journalist whose trip to a Caribbean island draws her into political turmoil and forces her to confront violence, vulnerability, and control.
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D.
The Hunt
The Hunt is a BBC nature documentary series that explores the dramatic strategies predators and prey use to survive in the wild.
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E.
The Body
"The Body" is a coming-of-age novella by Stephen King, best known as the basis for the 1986 film "Stand by Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller novel
ⓘ
mystery novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Blood Work (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Blood Work
|
| author | Michael Connelly ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
guilt and obligation after organ transplantation
ⓘ
investigation of a donor's murder by a heart transplant recipient ⓘ serial murder investigation ⓘ |
| characterOccupation |
former FBI agent
ⓘ
heart transplant recipient ⓘ retired FBI profiler ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresCharacter | Terry McCaleb ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Clint Eastwood ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationStar | Clint Eastwood ⓘ |
| followedByInSeries | A Darkness More Than Night ⓘ |
| followsInSeries | The Poet ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasForm | long-form prose narrative ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| hasStructure | linear investigation narrative ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
FBI profiling
ⓘ
criminal investigation ⓘ grief and loss ⓘ heart transplantation ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ serial killers ⓘ |
| hasTimeSetting | contemporary to its publication period ⓘ |
| hasTone | dark and suspenseful ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | detective fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century American crime fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Terry McCaleb ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
introducing the character Terry McCaleb
ⓘ
its detailed depiction of investigative procedure ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Terry McCaleb series ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Terry McCaleb investigates the murder of the woman whose heart he received in a transplant. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Terry McCaleb ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
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: Blood Work Description of subject: Blood Work is a crime thriller novel by Michael Connelly featuring retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, who investigates the murder of the woman whose heart he received in a transplant.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Blood Work
linked to: Blood Work