City of Bones
E379925
City of Bones is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch investigating a decades-old murder uncovered in the Hollywood Hills.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| City of Bones canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682216 — 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: City of Bones Context triple: [Michael Connelly, notableWork, City of Bones]
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A.
Kingdom of Bone
The Kingdom of Bone was a historical Bugis state in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its influential role in regional politics and trade before and during the early colonial period.
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B.
The Book of Skulls
The Book of Skulls is a 1972 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that follows four college students who discover a desert cult promising immortality at the cost of ritual sacrifice.
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C.
The Tree of Crows
The Tree of Crows is a Romantic-era landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, depicting a stark, gnarled tree silhouetted against a dramatic sky to evoke themes of melancholy and mortality.
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D.
City of Souls
City of Souls is the somber nickname for Colma, California, a small town famous for its vast cemeteries and far larger population of the dead than the living.
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E.
Red Tower
Red Tower is a historic medieval tower and landmark in the German city of Chemnitz.
- 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: City of Bones Target entity description: City of Bones is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch investigating a decades-old murder uncovered in the Hollywood Hills.
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A.
Kingdom of Bone
The Kingdom of Bone was a historical Bugis state in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its influential role in regional politics and trade before and during the early colonial period.
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B.
The Book of Skulls
The Book of Skulls is a 1972 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that follows four college students who discover a desert cult promising immortality at the cost of ritual sacrifice.
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C.
The Tree of Crows
The Tree of Crows is a Romantic-era landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, depicting a stark, gnarled tree silhouetted against a dramatic sky to evoke themes of melancholy and mortality.
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D.
City of Souls
City of Souls is the somber nickname for Colma, California, a small town famous for its vast cemeteries and far larger population of the dead than the living.
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E.
Red Tower
Red Tower is a historic medieval tower and landmark in the German city of Chemnitz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
fictional work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Connelly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter | Harry Bosch ⓘ |
| follows | A Darkness More Than Night ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cold case investigation
ⓘ
justice ⓘ police procedure ⓘ trauma from past crimes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Harry Bosch ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOf |
Harry Bosch novel sequence
ⓘ
linked to:
Harry Bosch series
|
| plotFocus | investigation of a decades-old murder ⓘ |
| precedes | Lost Light ⓘ |
| protagonistEmployer | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | detective ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| series | Harry Bosch series ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Hollywood Hills
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: City of Bones Description of subject: City of Bones is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch investigating a decades-old murder uncovered in the Hollywood Hills.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.