Clandestine
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Clandestine is a hard-boiled crime novel by James Ellroy that follows a young Los Angeles police officer entangled in corruption, murder, and moral ambiguity in 1950s L.A.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clandestine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6263801 — 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: Clandestine Context triple: [James Ellroy, notableWork, Clandestine]
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A.
Contraband
"Contraband" is a 2012 American action thriller film starring Mark Wahlberg as a former smuggler drawn back into the criminal underworld to protect his family.
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B.
Undercover
Undercover is a 1983 studio album by The Rolling Stones that blends rock with then-contemporary dance and new wave influences.
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C.
Undercover
Undercover is a book by former CIA officer and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, detailing his experiences in espionage and covert operations.
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D.
Makhfi
Makhfi was the pen name of Mughal princess Zeb-un-Nissa, known for her Persian poetry and literary patronage in 17th-century India.
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E.
Deep Cover
Deep Cover is a 1992 neo-noir crime thriller film in which an undercover cop infiltrates a Los Angeles drug cartel, noted for its gritty tone and Laurence Fishburne’s lead performance.
- 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: Clandestine Target entity description: Clandestine is a hard-boiled crime novel by James Ellroy that follows a young Los Angeles police officer entangled in corruption, murder, and moral ambiguity in 1950s L.A.
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A.
Contraband
"Contraband" is a 2012 American action thriller film starring Mark Wahlberg as a former smuggler drawn back into the criminal underworld to protect his family.
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B.
Undercover
Undercover is a 1983 studio album by The Rolling Stones that blends rock with then-contemporary dance and new wave influences.
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C.
Undercover
Undercover is a book by former CIA officer and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, detailing his experiences in espionage and covert operations.
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D.
Makhfi
Makhfi was the pen name of Mughal princess Zeb-un-Nissa, known for her Persian poetry and literary patronage in 17th-century India.
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E.
Deep Cover
Deep Cover is a 1992 neo-noir crime thriller film in which an undercover cop infiltrates a Los Angeles drug cartel, noted for its gritty tone and Laurence Fishburne’s lead performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
hard-boiled novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | James Ellroy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
corruption in law enforcement
ⓘ
criminal investigation ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ hard-boiled fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistTrait |
morally conflicted
ⓘ
young ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | neo-noir ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | hard-boiled ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | police officer ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCareerPhase | early work of James Ellroy ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| theme |
Los Angeles underworld
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crime ⓘ justice ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ murder ⓘ police corruption ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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: Clandestine Description of subject: Clandestine is a hard-boiled crime novel by James Ellroy that follows a young Los Angeles police officer entangled in corruption, murder, and moral ambiguity in 1950s L.A.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.