The God Boy
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The God Boy is a 1957 New Zealand novel by Ian Cross that follows a troubled Catholic schoolboy in a small town, exploring themes of family dysfunction, religion, and adolescence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The God Boy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5253083 — 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 God Boy Context triple: [Pat Evison, notableWork, The God Boy]
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A.
Elect of God
Elect of God is a reverential title used for Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia who is regarded by Rastafarians as the returned messiah and a central spiritual figure.
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B.
Animal Boy
"Animal Boy" is a 1986 punk rock album by the Ramones that blends their classic high-energy sound with more politically charged and socially conscious themes.
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C.
The Boy
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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D.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
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E.
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die is a memoir recounting David Nyuol Vincent’s harrowing experiences as a child refugee from the Sudanese civil war and his eventual resettlement in Australia.
- 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 God Boy Target entity description: The God Boy is a 1957 New Zealand novel by Ian Cross that follows a troubled Catholic schoolboy in a small town, exploring themes of family dysfunction, religion, and adolescence.
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A.
Elect of God
Elect of God is a reverential title used for Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia who is regarded by Rastafarians as the returned messiah and a central spiritual figure.
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B.
Animal Boy
"Animal Boy" is a 1986 punk rock album by the Ramones that blends their classic high-energy sound with more politically charged and socially conscious themes.
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C.
The Boy
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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D.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
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E.
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die is a memoir recounting David Nyuol Vincent’s harrowing experiences as a child refugee from the Sudanese civil war and his eventual resettlement in Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian Cross ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
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novel ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificanceIn | New Zealand literature ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
Catholic guilt
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adolescence ⓘ domestic violence ⓘ family dysfunction ⓘ mental breakdown ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| mainCharacterReligion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | retrospective account ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of modern New Zealand fiction
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portrayal of a disturbed child narrator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonist | Catholic schoolboy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| publisherCountry | New Zealand ⓘ |
| setting | small New Zealand town ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 God Boy Description of subject: The God Boy is a 1957 New Zealand novel by Ian Cross that follows a troubled Catholic schoolboy in a small town, exploring themes of family dysfunction, religion, and adolescence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.