The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
E401441
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, centered on the murder of a deaf academic in Oxford.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn canonical | 3 |
| novel "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3949495 — 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 Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Context triple: [Colin Dexter, notableWork, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn]
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A.
The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry is a dark, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe that explores family trauma, guilt, and the search for meaning in postwar rural Japan.
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B.
The White Darkness
The White Darkness is a nonfiction book by David Grann that recounts British explorer Henry Worsley’s obsessive and perilous Antarctic expeditions inspired by Ernest Shackleton.
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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 Quarry
The Quarry is a public park in Shrewsbury, England, best known for its riverside walks and the ornamental Dingle garden at its center.
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E.
The World Inside
The World Inside is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a densely populated future Earth where humanity lives in vast urban towers and embraces extreme social and sexual freedom.
- 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 Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Target entity description: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, centered on the murder of a deaf academic in Oxford.
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A.
The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry is a dark, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe that explores family trauma, guilt, and the search for meaning in postwar rural Japan.
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B.
The White Darkness
The White Darkness is a nonfiction book by David Grann that recounts British explorer Henry Worsley’s obsessive and perilous Antarctic expeditions inspired by Ernest Shackleton.
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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 Quarry
The Quarry is a public park in Shrewsbury, England, best known for its riverside walks and the ornamental Dingle garden at its center.
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E.
The World Inside
The World Inside is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a densely populated future Earth where humanity lives in vast urban towers and embraces extreme social and sexual freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Inspector Morse novel
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crime novel ⓘ detective novel ⓘ |
| adaptationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| adaptationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television episode ⓘ |
| author | Colin Dexter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
academic politics
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deception ⓘ disability ⓘ intellectual puzzle mystery ⓘ |
| followedBy | Last Seen Wearing ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasTelevisionAdaptation |
Inspector Morse television series
ⓘ
linked to:
Inspector Morse
|
| mainCharacter |
Inspector Morse
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Sergeant Lewis ⓘ
linked to:
Sergeant Robbie Lewis
|
| narrativeFocus | murder investigation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| precededBy | Last Bus to Woodstock ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan
ⓘ
linked to:
Macmillan Publishers
|
| series | Inspector Morse ⓘ |
| setIn | Oxford ⓘ |
| settingType | university city ⓘ |
| victim | Nicholas Quinn ⓘ |
| victimCharacteristic | deaf ⓘ |
| victimOccupation | academic ⓘ |
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: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Description of subject: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, centered on the murder of a deaf academic in Oxford.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.