The Third Twin
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The Third Twin is a techno-thriller novel by Ken Follett that centers on genetic engineering, secret experiments, and a deadly conspiracy uncovered through DNA research.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Third Twin canonical | 1 |
| The Third Twin (1997 television film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3949388 — 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 Third Twin Context triple: [Ken Follett, notableWork, The Third Twin]
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A.
The Power of Three
"The Power of Three" is a 2012 Doctor Who episode from the Eleventh Doctor era in which mysterious black cubes appear worldwide, prompting a slow-burn invasion storyline that focuses heavily on the Doctor’s relationship with Amy and Rory.
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B.
The Triptych of Departure
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C.
The Intrigue
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D.
The Cradle
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E.
The Hanseroth Twins
The Hanseroth Twins are Phil and Tim Hanseroth, American musicians best known as Brandi Carlile’s longtime songwriting partners, bandmates, and harmony vocalists.
- 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 Third Twin Target entity description: The Third Twin is a techno-thriller novel by Ken Follett that centers on genetic engineering, secret experiments, and a deadly conspiracy uncovered through DNA research.
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A.
The Power of Three
"The Power of Three" is a 2012 Doctor Who episode from the Eleventh Doctor era in which mysterious black cubes appear worldwide, prompting a slow-burn invasion storyline that focuses heavily on the Doctor’s relationship with Amy and Rory.
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B.
The Triptych of Departure
The Triptych of Departure is a major allegorical painting by German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann, reflecting themes of exile, suffering, and spiritual transformation in a three-panel format.
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C.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
The Hanseroth Twins
The Hanseroth Twins are Phil and Tim Hanseroth, American musicians best known as Brandi Carlile’s longtime songwriting partners, bandmates, and harmony vocalists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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techno-thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Third Twin (1997 television film)
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linked to:
The Third Twin
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| adaptationDirector | Tom McLoughlin ⓘ |
| adaptationNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | television film ⓘ |
| author | Ken Follett ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
bioethics
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corporate and political conspiracy ⓘ genetic engineering ⓘ human cloning ⓘ nature versus nurture ⓘ secret government experiments ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
dangers of genetic manipulation
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misuse of scientific research ⓘ reliability and limits of DNA evidence ⓘ |
| genre |
techno-thriller
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
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e-book ⓘ hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-517-70436-0 (one edition) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Berrington Jones
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Jeannie Ferrami ⓘ Steve Logan ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of forensic DNA analysis in a thriller context
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early popular-fiction treatment of human cloning ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 1996-10-01 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 400-500 pages (approximate, varies by edition) ⓘ |
| partOf | Ken Follett bibliography ⓘ |
| plotElement |
DNA research used to identify identical individuals
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cover-up of illegal genetic experiments ⓘ discovery of multiple men with identical DNA ⓘ military-funded genetics program ⓘ wrongful accusation of rape based on DNA evidence ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| publisher | Crown Publishers ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
academic research environment ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Third Twin Description of subject: The Third Twin is a techno-thriller novel by Ken Follett that centers on genetic engineering, secret experiments, and a deadly conspiracy uncovered through DNA research.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Third Twin