Seven Days to a Killing
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Seven Days to a Killing is a 1972 spy thriller novel by Clive Egleton, centered on a British intelligence officer whose son is kidnapped as part of a high-stakes blackmail plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seven Days to a Killing canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6067609 — 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: Seven Days to a Killing Context triple: [The Black Windmill, basedOn, Seven Days to a Killing]
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A.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Killing Times
The Killing Times were a period of brutal persecution and summary executions of Scottish Covenanters in the late 17th century under the Stuart monarchy.
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C.
Kiss of Death
Kiss of Death is a 1947 American film noir crime drama best known for its gritty realism and Richard Widmark’s chilling debut performance as a sadistic villain.
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D.
Twelve Reasons to Die
"Twelve Reasons to Die" is a concept album by Ghostface Killah that blends cinematic storytelling with gritty hip-hop, following a revenge narrative inspired by classic crime and horror films.
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E.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
- 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: Seven Days to a Killing Target entity description: Seven Days to a Killing is a 1972 spy thriller novel by Clive Egleton, centered on a British intelligence officer whose son is kidnapped as part of a high-stakes blackmail plot.
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A.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Killing Times
The Killing Times were a period of brutal persecution and summary executions of Scottish Covenanters in the late 17th century under the Stuart monarchy.
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C.
Kiss of Death
Kiss of Death is a 1947 American film noir crime drama best known for its gritty realism and Richard Widmark’s chilling debut performance as a sadistic villain.
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D.
Twelve Reasons to Die
"Twelve Reasons to Die" is a concept album by Ghostface Killah that blends cinematic storytelling with gritty hip-hop, following a revenge narrative inspired by classic crime and horror films.
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E.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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spy thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptationCountryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Don Siegel ⓘ |
| adaptationGenre | spy thriller film ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| adaptationStar | Michael Caine ⓘ |
| adaptationTitle | The Black Windmill ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | The Black Windmill ⓘ |
| author | Clive Egleton ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
spy fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
blackmail
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espionage ⓘ family in danger ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | British intelligence officer ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A British intelligence officer’s son is kidnapped as part of a high-stakes blackmail plot. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| publisherCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| setting | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Seven Days to a Killing Description of subject: Seven Days to a Killing is a 1972 spy thriller novel by Clive Egleton, centered on a British intelligence officer whose son is kidnapped as part of a high-stakes blackmail plot.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.