Savage Night
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Savage Night is a dark, hardboiled crime novel by Jim Thompson that follows a terminally ill hitman on a paranoid, violent assignment in a small town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Savage Night canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10322590 — 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: Savage Night Context triple: [Jim Thompson, notableWork, Savage Night]
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A.
Shot at the Night
"Shot at the Night" is a 2013 synth-rock single by American rock band The Killers, produced by M83's Anthony Gonzalez and released as part of their greatest hits album "Direct Hits."
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B.
Savage Sleep
Savage Sleep is a mid-20th-century novel by Millen Brand that explores psychological themes through its portrayal of mental illness and institutional life.
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C.
Savage Breeze
Savage Breeze is an abstract expressionist painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler, exemplifying her pioneering soak-stain technique.
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D.
In the Night
"In the Night" is a dark, synth-driven R&B/pop song by The Weeknd that explores themes of trauma and survival, released as a single from his album *Beauty Behind the Madness*.
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E.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
- 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: Savage Night Target entity description: Savage Night is a dark, hardboiled crime novel by Jim Thompson that follows a terminally ill hitman on a paranoid, violent assignment in a small town.
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A.
Shot at the Night
"Shot at the Night" is a 2013 synth-rock single by American rock band The Killers, produced by M83's Anthony Gonzalez and released as part of their greatest hits album "Direct Hits."
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B.
Savage Sleep
Savage Sleep is a mid-20th-century novel by Millen Brand that explores psychological themes through its portrayal of mental illness and institutional life.
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C.
Savage Breeze
Savage Breeze is an abstract expressionist painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler, exemplifying her pioneering soak-stain technique.
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D.
In the Night
"In the Night" is a dark, synth-driven R&B/pop song by The Weeknd that explores themes of trauma and survival, released as a single from his album *Beauty Behind the Madness*.
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E.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
hardboiled novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Jim Thompson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
hardboiled fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jake Winroy
ⓘ
Mrs. Winroy ⓘ Ruthie ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | pulp fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | noir ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Charles "Little" Bigger ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bleak ending
ⓘ
unreliable narration ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A terminally ill hitman takes an assignment in a small town and descends into paranoia and violence. ⓘ |
| protagonistCondition | terminally ill ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | hitman ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| publisher | Lion Books ⓘ |
| setting | small town ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| themes |
death
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ paranoia ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone | dark ⓘ |
| workOf | Jim Thompson ⓘ |
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: Savage Night Description of subject: Savage Night is a dark, hardboiled crime novel by Jim Thompson that follows a terminally ill hitman on a paranoid, violent assignment in a small town.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.