Light Shining in the Forest
E659829
Light Shining in the Forest is a contemporary novel by Paul Torday that blends mystery and psychological drama as it follows a civil servant drawn into the search for two missing children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Light Shining in the Forest canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7382987 — 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: Light Shining in the Forest Context triple: [Paul Torday, authorOf, Light Shining in the Forest]
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A.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a novel by Louise Erdrich that follows a lifelong impostor priest serving on an Ojibwe reservation, blending spiritual mystery, identity, and Native American history.
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B.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover is James Merrill’s ambitious, book-length epic poem that blends autobiography, occult séances, and philosophical reflection into a sprawling modern visionary work.
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C.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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D.
The Edge of the Forest
The Edge of the Forest is a 19th-century landscape painting by French Barbizon school artist Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, celebrated for its richly colored, atmospheric depiction of woodland scenery.
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E.
The Way Through the Woods
The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring the detective’s investigation into a long-unsolved missing person case.
- 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: Light Shining in the Forest Target entity description: Light Shining in the Forest is a contemporary novel by Paul Torday that blends mystery and psychological drama as it follows a civil servant drawn into the search for two missing children.
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A.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a novel by Louise Erdrich that follows a lifelong impostor priest serving on an Ojibwe reservation, blending spiritual mystery, identity, and Native American history.
-
B.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover is James Merrill’s ambitious, book-length epic poem that blends autobiography, occult séances, and philosophical reflection into a sprawling modern visionary work.
-
C.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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D.
The Edge of the Forest
The Edge of the Forest is a 19th-century landscape painting by French Barbizon school artist Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, celebrated for its richly colored, atmospheric depiction of woodland scenery.
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E.
The Way Through the Woods
The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring the detective’s investigation into a long-unsolved missing person case.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Paul Torday ⓘ |
| centralPlotElement | search for two missing children ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
ⓘ
psychological drama ⓘ |
| hasSetting | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ loss ⓘ media pressure ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ public perception of crime ⓘ redemption ⓘ responsibility ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | psychological realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | civil servant ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | civil servant ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Paul Torday ⓘ |
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: Light Shining in the Forest Description of subject: Light Shining in the Forest is a contemporary novel by Paul Torday that blends mystery and psychological drama as it follows a civil servant drawn into the search for two missing children.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.