Touch the Devil
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Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Touch the Devil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3794168 — 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: Touch the Devil Context triple: [Jack Higgins, notableWork, Touch the Devil]
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A.
Who The Devil Made It
"Who The Devil Made It" is a book by filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich that collects in-depth interviews with classic Hollywood directors, exploring their careers and the art of filmmaking.
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B.
Devil Without a Cause
Devil Without a Cause is Kid Rock’s breakthrough 1998 studio album that fused rap, rock, and country elements and propelled him to mainstream fame.
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C.
You Look Like the Devil
"You Look Like the Devil" is a song from Willie Nelson’s 1973 country album *Shotgun Willie*, known for its raw, edgy style that helped redefine his outlaw country image.
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D.
Friend of the Devil
"Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
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E.
The Devil's Playground
The Devil's Playground is a 1976 Australian drama film, written and directed by Fred Schepisi, that explores the sexual and spiritual tensions within a Catholic boys' seminary in the 1950s.
- 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: Touch the Devil Target entity description: Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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A.
Who The Devil Made It
"Who The Devil Made It" is a book by filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich that collects in-depth interviews with classic Hollywood directors, exploring their careers and the art of filmmaking.
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B.
Devil Without a Cause
Devil Without a Cause is Kid Rock’s breakthrough 1998 studio album that fused rap, rock, and country elements and propelled him to mainstream fame.
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C.
You Look Like the Devil
"You Look Like the Devil" is a song from Willie Nelson’s 1973 country album *Shotgun Willie*, known for its raw, edgy style that helped redefine his outlaw country image.
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D.
Friend of the Devil
"Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
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E.
The Devil's Playground
The Devil's Playground is a 1976 Australian drama film, written and directed by Fred Schepisi, that explores the sexual and spiritual tensions within a Catholic boys' seminary in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
espionage novel
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novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | Jack Higgins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
Cold War fiction
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espionage fiction ⓘ spy novel ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
counter-terrorism
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intelligence agencies ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ terrorist organizations ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
covert operations
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espionage ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
high-stakes covert missions
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international espionage ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Cold War ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor |
Jack Higgins bibliography
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linked to:
Jack Higgins
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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: Touch the Devil Description of subject: Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.