Dead Man’s Time
E412461
Dead Man’s Time is a crime thriller novel in the Roy Grace series by British author Peter James, blending a modern murder investigation with a decades-old mystery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Man’s Time canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4029010 — 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: Dead Man’s Time Context triple: [Peter James, notableWork, Dead Man’s Time]
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A.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
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B.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
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C.
The Man Who Finally Died
The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British thriller film, based on a television serial, about a man investigating his supposedly dead father's mysterious past in a small Bavarian town.
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D.
Death of a Man
"Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
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E.
A Long Day’s Dying
A Long Day’s Dying is a 1950 novel by American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner, known for its introspective, literary exploration of faith, doubt, and human relationships.
- 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: Dead Man’s Time Target entity description: Dead Man’s Time is a crime thriller novel in the Roy Grace series by British author Peter James, blending a modern murder investigation with a decades-old mystery.
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A.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
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B.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
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C.
The Man Who Finally Died
The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British thriller film, based on a television serial, about a man investigating his supposedly dead father's mysterious past in a small Bavarian town.
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D.
Death of a Man
"Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
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E.
A Long Day’s Dying
A Long Day’s Dying is a 1950 novel by American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner, known for its introspective, literary exploration of faith, doubt, and human relationships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roy Grace novel
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crime thriller novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Peter James ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace
ⓘ
linked to:
Roy Grace
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| genre |
crime fiction
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police procedural ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family secrets
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past and present intersecting ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Roy Grace ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
decades-old mystery
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modern murder investigation ⓘ |
| partOf | Roy Grace series ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | detective ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan
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linked to:
The Macmillan Company
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| series | Roy Grace ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Brighton ⓘ |
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: Dead Man’s Time Description of subject: Dead Man’s Time is a crime thriller novel in the Roy Grace series by British author Peter James, blending a modern murder investigation with a decades-old mystery.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.