The Mortal Instruments

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book series urban fantasy series young adult novel series

The Mortal Instruments is a popular young adult urban fantasy book series by Cassandra Clare that follows teenage Shadowhunters battling demons and uncovering dark family secrets in a hidden magical world within modern-day cities.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Shadowhunters	6
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	4
City of Bones	2
The Mortal Instruments canonical	1
The Mortal Instruments series	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7841653 — 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 Mortal Instruments
Context triple: [Julian Morgenstern, appearsIn, The Mortal Instruments]

A. City of Bones
City of Bones is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch investigating a decades-old murder uncovered in the Hollywood Hills.
B. Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy is a supernatural fantasy series centered on a boarding school for vampires and their guardians, blending teen drama, romance, and political intrigue.
C. Scholomance trilogy
The Scholomance trilogy is a contemporary fantasy book series by Naomi Novik that follows magically gifted students struggling to survive a deadly, sentient school.
D. His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a fantasy television series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel trilogy, featuring parallel worlds, daemons, and a young heroine’s journey against a powerful theocratic authority.
E. The Briar Rose series
The Briar Rose series is a celebrated set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that reinterprets the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with richly detailed, dreamlike imagery.
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 Mortal Instruments
Target entity description: The Mortal Instruments is a popular young adult urban fantasy book series by Cassandra Clare that follows teenage Shadowhunters battling demons and uncovering dark family secrets in a hidden magical world within modern-day cities.

A. City of Bones
City of Bones is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch investigating a decades-old murder uncovered in the Hollywood Hills.
B. Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy is a supernatural fantasy series centered on a boarding school for vampires and their guardians, blending teen drama, romance, and political intrigue.
C. Scholomance trilogy
The Scholomance trilogy is a contemporary fantasy book series by Naomi Novik that follows magically gifted students struggling to survive a deadly, sentient school.
D. His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a fantasy television series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel trilogy, featuring parallel worlds, daemons, and a young heroine’s journey against a powerful theocratic authority.
E. The Briar Rose series
The Briar Rose series is a celebrated set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that reinterprets the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with richly detailed, dreamlike imagery.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book series ⓘ urban fantasy series ⓘ young adult novel series ⓘ
author	Cassandra Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ
centralTheme	family secrets ⓘ forbidden love ⓘ good versus evil ⓘ identity ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
featuresGroup	Downworlders ⓘ Shadowhunters NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuresSupernaturalBeing	demons ⓘ faeries ⓘ vampires ⓘ warlocks ⓘ werewolves ⓘ
fictionalLocation	Alicante NERFINISHED ⓘ
fictionalOrganization	The Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Clave NERFINISHED ⓘ
fifthBook	City of Lost Souls NERFINISHED ⓘ
filmAdaptationOf	City of Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ
finalBookPublicationYear	2014 ⓘ
firstBook	City of Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPublicationYear	2007 ⓘ
fourthBook	City of Fallen Angels NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	paranormal romance ⓘ urban fantasy ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ
hasAdaptation	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTelevisionAdaptation	Shadowhunters NERFINISHED ⓘ
imprintOfPublisher	Simon & Schuster NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainCharacter	Alec Lightwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Clary Fray NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabelle Lightwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Jace Wayland NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnus Bane NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ
numberOfBooks	6 ⓘ
partOfFranchise	Shadowhunter Chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ
publisher	Margaret K. McElderry Books NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedWork	The Dark Artifices NERFINISHED ⓘ The Infernal Devices NERFINISHED ⓘ
secondBook	City of Ashes NERFINISHED ⓘ
setting	Idris NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ
sixthBook	City of Heavenly Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ
targetAudience	teenagers ⓘ
thirdBook	City of Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ

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