The Sun Doctor
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The Sun Doctor is a novel by Scottish author Robert Shaw that explores psychological and moral tensions through the story of a British doctor working in a West African colony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sun Doctor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6071321 — 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 Sun Doctor Context triple: [Robert Archibald Shaw, notableWork, The Sun Doctor]
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A.
A Sun Came
A Sun Came is the eclectic, genre-blending debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, showcasing his experimental folk and lo-fi sound.
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B.
Tables of the Sun
Tables of the Sun is an astronomical reference work by Simon Newcomb that provides highly accurate solar ephemerides used for celestial navigation and scientific calculations.
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C.
Behind the Sun
"Behind the Sun" is a Brazilian drama film directed by Walter Salles that explores family honor, violence, and coming-of-age in the rural Northeast at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
Staring at the Sun
"Staring at the Sun" is a pop song best known as a single by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1997 album "Pop."
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E.
Eclipse of the Sun
"Eclipse of the Sun" is a 1926 political painting by German artist George Grosz that satirically depicts the corruption and brutality of Weimar-era politics and capitalism.
- 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 Sun Doctor Target entity description: The Sun Doctor is a novel by Scottish author Robert Shaw that explores psychological and moral tensions through the story of a British doctor working in a West African colony.
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A.
A Sun Came
A Sun Came is the eclectic, genre-blending debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, showcasing his experimental folk and lo-fi sound.
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B.
Tables of the Sun
Tables of the Sun is an astronomical reference work by Simon Newcomb that provides highly accurate solar ephemerides used for celestial navigation and scientific calculations.
-
C.
Behind the Sun
"Behind the Sun" is a Brazilian drama film directed by Walter Salles that explores family honor, violence, and coming-of-age in the rural Northeast at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
Staring at the Sun
"Staring at the Sun" is a pop song best known as a single by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1997 album "Pop."
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E.
Eclipse of the Sun
"Eclipse of the Sun" is a 1926 political painting by German artist George Grosz that satirically depicts the corruption and brutality of Weimar-era politics and capitalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert Shaw ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Shaw ⓘ |
| depicts | British colonialism in West Africa ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | British doctor ⓘ |
| setting | West African colony ⓘ |
| theme |
moral tension
ⓘ
psychological tension ⓘ |
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 Sun Doctor Description of subject: The Sun Doctor is a novel by Scottish author Robert Shaw that explores psychological and moral tensions through the story of a British doctor working in a West African colony.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.