The Deep Blue Good-by
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The Deep Blue Good-by is a 1964 crime novel by John D. MacDonald that introduces Florida-based salvage consultant and reluctant hero Travis McGee in a hardboiled, psychologically driven mystery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Deep Blue Good-by canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808872 — 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 Deep Blue Good-by Context triple: [John D. MacDonald, notableWork, The Deep Blue Good-by]
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A.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue is a 2003 British nature documentary film, co-directed by Alastair Fothergill, that explores the world's oceans using spectacular underwater cinematography.
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B.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue was IBM's pioneering chess-playing supercomputer that famously defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, marking a milestone in artificial intelligence.
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C.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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D.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s that followed the lives of magazine publishing executives through rotating lead characters and storylines.
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E.
Checkmate
Checkmate is a renowned jazz guitar album by Joe Pass that showcases his virtuosic technique and sophisticated improvisational style.
- 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 Deep Blue Good-by Target entity description: The Deep Blue Good-by is a 1964 crime novel by John D. MacDonald that introduces Florida-based salvage consultant and reluctant hero Travis McGee in a hardboiled, psychologically driven mystery.
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A.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue is a 2003 British nature documentary film, co-directed by Alastair Fothergill, that explores the world's oceans using spectacular underwater cinematography.
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B.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue was IBM's pioneering chess-playing supercomputer that famously defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, marking a milestone in artificial intelligence.
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C.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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D.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s that followed the lives of magazine publishing executives through rotating lead characters and storylines.
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E.
Checkmate
Checkmate is a renowned jazz guitar album by Joe Pass that showcases his virtuosic technique and sophisticated improvisational style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
hardboiled fiction work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| character |
Meyer
ⓘ
linked to:
Meyer Meyer
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| followedBy | Nightmare in Pink ⓘ |
| followsInSeries | none ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
hardboiled fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasColorInTitle | blue ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | psychologically driven mystery ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
greed
ⓘ
moral ambiguity ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ violence and exploitation ⓘ |
| hasTone |
cynical
ⓘ
gritty ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
| literaryForm | novel-length fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Travis McGee
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linked to:
Travis McGee series
|
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | introducing the character Travis McGee ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Travis McGee color series
ⓘ
linked to:
Travis McGee series
|
| positionInSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | reluctant hero ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | salvage consultant ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| publisher | Fawcett Publications ⓘ |
| series | Travis McGee series ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Florida ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1960s ⓘ |
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 Deep Blue Good-by Description of subject: The Deep Blue Good-by is a 1964 crime novel by John D. MacDonald that introduces Florida-based salvage consultant and reluctant hero Travis McGee in a hardboiled, psychologically driven mystery.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.