The Rhesus Chart
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The Rhesus Chart is a science fiction novel in Charles Stross's Laundry Files series that blends bureaucratic spy thriller elements with occult and computational horror.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Rhesus Chart canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060086 — 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 Rhesus Chart Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, The Rhesus Chart]
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A.
River Red
River Red is a small watercourse associated with the town of Redruth in Cornwall, England.
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B.
The Woman in Red
The Woman in Red is a 1984 romantic comedy film starring Gene Wilder that is especially known for its soundtrack featuring Stevie Wonder’s hit song “I Just Called to Say I Love You.”
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C.
Traces of Red
Traces of Red is a 1992 neo-noir crime thriller film centered on a murder investigation in Florida, featuring Lorraine Bracco among its principal cast.
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D.
The Naming of Names
"The Naming of Names" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury set on Mars, exploring human colonization and its impact on the planet’s identity and culture.
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E.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
- 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 Rhesus Chart Target entity description: The Rhesus Chart is a science fiction novel in Charles Stross's Laundry Files series that blends bureaucratic spy thriller elements with occult and computational horror.
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A.
River Red
River Red is a small watercourse associated with the town of Redruth in Cornwall, England.
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B.
The Woman in Red
The Woman in Red is a 1984 romantic comedy film starring Gene Wilder that is especially known for its soundtrack featuring Stevie Wonder’s hit song “I Just Called to Say I Love You.”
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C.
Traces of Red
Traces of Red is a 1992 neo-noir crime thriller film centered on a murder investigation in Florida, featuring Lorraine Bracco among its principal cast.
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D.
The Naming of Names
"The Naming of Names" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury set on Mars, exploring human colonization and its impact on the planet’s identity and culture.
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E.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ spy thriller ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
bureaucracy in intelligence agencies
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intersection of magic and computation ⓘ office politics in occult intelligence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization |
the Laundry
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linked to:
The Laundry
|
| genre |
bureaucratic thriller
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computational horror ⓘ fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ occult fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | unidentified in prompt (varies by edition) ⓘ |
| hasISBN |
ISBN-13 978-0356502397 (Orbit UK edition)
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ISBN-13 978-0425256787 (Ace US edition) ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistEmployer | British secret government agency the Laundry ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | computational demonologist ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| includesElement |
computer science
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occult mathematics ⓘ vampirism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
blend of comedy and horror
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bureaucratic satire ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Bob Howard ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining office comedy with Lovecraftian horror
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developing the Laundry Files mythos around vampires ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Laundry Files ⓘ |
| prequel | The Apocalypse Codex ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Ace Books
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Orbit Books ⓘ |
| sequel | The Annihilation Score ⓘ |
| seriesOrder | fifth novel in The Laundry Files ⓘ |
| setting |
London
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linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 21st 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 Rhesus Chart Description of subject: The Rhesus Chart is a science fiction novel in Charles Stross's Laundry Files series that blends bureaucratic spy thriller elements with occult and computational horror.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.