The Man from Beijing
E680315
The Man from Beijing is a crime thriller novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell that intertwines a modern mass murder investigation with historical events spanning continents and centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Man from Beijing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7651913 — 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 Man from Beijing Context triple: [Henning Mankell, notableWork, The Man from Beijing]
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A.
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film dramatizing the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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B.
Go East, Young Man
"Go East, Young Man" is the autobiographical memoir of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, recounting his early life and rise to the nation’s highest court.
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C.
The Mandarin
The Mandarin is a notorious Marvel Comics supervillain, often portrayed as one of Iron Man’s primary adversaries and a mastermind wielding advanced technology or mystical power.
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D.
O Mandarim
O Mandarim is a satirical novella by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós that explores greed, morality, and the consequences of wish fulfillment through a fantastical tale about a clerk who can gain a fortune by causing the death of a distant Chinese mandarin.
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E.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 neo-noir crime drama film by John Cassavetes that follows a nightclub owner whose gambling debts entangle him in a violent underworld.
- 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 Man from Beijing Target entity description: The Man from Beijing is a crime thriller novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell that intertwines a modern mass murder investigation with historical events spanning continents and centuries.
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A.
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film dramatizing the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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B.
Go East, Young Man
"Go East, Young Man" is the autobiographical memoir of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, recounting his early life and rise to the nation’s highest court.
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C.
The Mandarin
The Mandarin is a notorious Marvel Comics supervillain, often portrayed as one of Iron Man’s primary adversaries and a mastermind wielding advanced technology or mystical power.
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D.
O Mandarim
O Mandarim is a satirical novella by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós that explores greed, morality, and the consequences of wish fulfillment through a fantastical tale about a clerk who can gain a fortune by causing the death of a distant Chinese mandarin.
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E.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 neo-noir crime drama film by John Cassavetes that follows a nightclub owner whose gambling debts entangle him in a violent underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Henning Mankell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasFemaleProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Swedish ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Birgitta Roslin ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | international ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | interwoven timelines ⓘ |
| notableFor | linking contemporary crime with historical events ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | judge ⓘ |
| setting |
China
ⓘ
Sweden ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| theme |
colonialism
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family history ⓘ historical injustice ⓘ mass murder investigation ⓘ migration ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStory |
19th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Henning Mankell ⓘ |
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 Man from Beijing Description of subject: The Man from Beijing is a crime thriller novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell that intertwines a modern mass murder investigation with historical events spanning continents and centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.