Jackdaws
E401401
"Jackdaws" is a World War II espionage thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows an all-female team of Allied agents on a dangerous mission in occupied France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackdaws canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3949387 — 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: Jackdaws Context triple: [Ken Follett, notableWork, Jackdaws]
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A.
Martlets
Martlets is the name of McGill University's women's varsity sports teams, known for their strong athletic tradition in Canadian university sports.
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B.
Crows
Crows is the common short name for the Adelaide Crows, a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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C.
Bartholomew Sparrows
Bartholomew Sparrows is a political scientist and professor known for his scholarship on American political development and public policy.
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D.
Swallow
Swallow is the Allied reporting name for the Japanese World War II fighter aircraft Kawasaki Ki-61, known for its inline engine and resemblance to contemporary European fighters.
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E.
Birdy
"Birdy" is a 1984 psychological war drama film, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, about the intense post-Vietnam friendship between two traumatized young men.
- 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: Jackdaws Target entity description: "Jackdaws" is a World War II espionage thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows an all-female team of Allied agents on a dangerous mission in occupied France.
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A.
Martlets
Martlets is the name of McGill University's women's varsity sports teams, known for their strong athletic tradition in Canadian university sports.
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B.
Crows
Crows is the common short name for the Adelaide Crows, a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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C.
Bartholomew Sparrows
Bartholomew Sparrows is a political scientist and professor known for his scholarship on American political development and public policy.
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D.
Swallow
Swallow is the Allied reporting name for the Japanese World War II fighter aircraft Kawasaki Ki-61, known for its inline engine and resemblance to contemporary European fighters.
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E.
Birdy
"Birdy" is a 1984 psychological war drama film, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, about the intense post-Vietnam friendship between two traumatized young men.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II novel
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ novel ⓘ spy novel ⓘ |
| author | Ken Follett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | preparation for D-Day ⓘ |
| depictsOrganization |
French Resistance
ⓘ
Gestapo ⓘ |
| features | all-female team of Allied agents ⓘ |
| follows | Allied sabotage mission against German communications ⓘ |
| genre |
espionage thriller
ⓘ
war fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dieter Franck
ⓘ
Felicity "Flick" Clairet ⓘ Greta Garbo (code name) ⓘ
linked to:
Greta Garbo
Michel Clairet ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
female empowerment ⓘ resistance ⓘ sabotage ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| originalPublicationFormat | print ⓘ |
| protagonist | Felicity "Flick" Clairet ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Dutton
ⓘ
Macmillan ⓘ
linked to:
Macmillan Publishers
|
| settingPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| settingPlace | occupied France ⓘ |
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: Jackdaws Description of subject: "Jackdaws" is a World War II espionage thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows an all-female team of Allied agents on a dangerous mission in occupied France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.