Frankie Elkin series
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The Frankie Elkin series is a set of contemporary crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring an amateur missing-persons finder who searches for the lost and forgotten.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frankie Elkin series canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8504249 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frankie Elkin series Context triple: [Lisa Gardner, hasSeries, Frankie Elkin series]
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A.
Atlee Pine series
The Atlee Pine series is a collection of contemporary thriller novels by David Baldacci featuring an FBI agent protagonist who investigates dark, complex crimes while confronting her own traumatic past.
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B.
Uncle Frank
"Uncle Frank" is a 2020 coming-of-age road trip drama film written and directed by Alan Ball, in which Paul Bettany stars as a closeted gay literature professor confronting his past and family in the American South of the 1970s.
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C.
The Ann Sothern Show
The Ann Sothern Show is an American sitcom from the late 1950s and early 1960s starring Ann Sothern as a talent agency executive, known for its witty scripts and strong female lead.
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D.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
The Adventures of Kathlyn is a pioneering 1913 American adventure film serial that helped establish the cliffhanger format in early cinema.
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E.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
- 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: Frankie Elkin series Target entity description: The Frankie Elkin series is a set of contemporary crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring an amateur missing-persons finder who searches for the lost and forgotten.
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A.
Atlee Pine series
The Atlee Pine series is a collection of contemporary thriller novels by David Baldacci featuring an FBI agent protagonist who investigates dark, complex crimes while confronting her own traumatic past.
-
B.
Uncle Frank
"Uncle Frank" is a 2020 coming-of-age road trip drama film written and directed by Alan Ball, in which Paul Bettany stars as a closeted gay literature professor confronting his past and family in the American South of the 1970s.
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C.
The Ann Sothern Show
The Ann Sothern Show is an American sitcom from the late 1950s and early 1960s starring Ann Sothern as a talent agency executive, known for its witty scripts and strong female lead.
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D.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
The Adventures of Kathlyn is a pioneering 1913 American adventure film serial that helped establish the cliffhanger format in early cinema.
-
E.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book series
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contemporary fiction series ⓘ crime fiction series ⓘ thriller series ⓘ |
| author | Lisa Gardner ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
finding the lost and forgotten
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searching for missing persons ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Lisa Gardner ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Frankie Elkin ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cold cases
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disappearances ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasVolume |
Before She Disappeared
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One Step Too Far ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryCategory | commercial fiction ⓘ |
| literaryForm | novel ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Frankie Elkin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of an ordinary woman investigating missing persons cases ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | amateur missing-persons finder ⓘ |
| publisher |
Dutton
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Penguin Random House ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | contemporary ⓘ |
| subgenre |
amateur sleuth mystery
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Frankie Elkin series Description of subject: The Frankie Elkin series is a set of contemporary crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring an amateur missing-persons finder who searches for the lost and forgotten.
Referenced by (3)
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