Clean Break
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Clean Break is a 2008 crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid featuring journalist Lindsay Gordon, which served as the basis for the Danish TV series "The Killing."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clean Break canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042119 — 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: Clean Break Context triple: [The Killing, basedOn, Clean Break]
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A.
The Break-Up
The Break-Up is a 2006 romantic comedy-drama film starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn as a couple navigating a messy split while still sharing their condo.
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B.
Breaking Us in Two
"Breaking Us in Two" is a melodic pop-rock ballad by English musician Joe Jackson, released in the early 1980s and known for its reflective lyrics and prominent use of piano.
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C.
Break Up
"Break Up" is a song by American R&B singer Mario, best known for its smooth production and themes of romantic conflict and separation.
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D.
Don’t Break It
Don’t Break It is a track featured on the jazz standard album "All of Me."
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E.
Break It Off
"Break It Off" is a dancehall-infused pop song by Rihanna featuring Sean Paul, known for its upbeat rhythm and Caribbean flair.
- 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: Clean Break Target entity description: Clean Break is a 2008 crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid featuring journalist Lindsay Gordon, which served as the basis for the Danish TV series "The Killing."
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A.
The Break-Up
The Break-Up is a 2006 romantic comedy-drama film starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn as a couple navigating a messy split while still sharing their condo.
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B.
Breaking Us in Two
"Breaking Us in Two" is a melodic pop-rock ballad by English musician Joe Jackson, released in the early 1980s and known for its reflective lyrics and prominent use of piano.
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C.
Break Up
"Break Up" is a song by American R&B singer Mario, best known for its smooth production and themes of romantic conflict and separation.
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D.
Don’t Break It
Don’t Break It is a track featured on the jazz standard album "All of Me."
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E.
Break It Off
"Break It Off" is a dancehall-infused pop song by Rihanna featuring Sean Paul, known for its upbeat rhythm and Caribbean flair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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fictional character ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Val McDermid ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Lindsay Gordon ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime writer
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journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2008 ⓘ |
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: Clean Break Description of subject: Clean Break is a 2008 crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid featuring journalist Lindsay Gordon, which served as the basis for the Danish TV series "The Killing."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Killing (role as Johnny Clay)