The End of the Night
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The End of the Night is a 1960 crime novel by John D. MacDonald that follows a group of thrill-seeking young criminals on a violent cross-country spree, exploring themes of moral decay and societal failure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The End of the Night canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808883 — 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 End of the Night Context triple: [John D. MacDonald, notableWork, The End of the Night]
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A.
End of the Night
"End of the Night" is a song featured on Ludacris's Grammy-winning hip hop album "Release Therapy."
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B.
Something in the Night
"Something in the Night" is a country rock album by American band Pure Prairie League, known for its melodic harmonies and smooth, radio-friendly sound.
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C.
Something in the Night
"Something in the Night" is a brooding, emotionally charged song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album *Darkness on the Edge of Town*, known for its haunting atmosphere and themes of loss and desperation.
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D.
The Lateness of the Hour
The Lateness of the Hour is a 2011 studio album by British singer-songwriter Alex Clare that blends soul, rock, and electronic influences, best known for the hit single "Too Close."
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E.
The Lateness of the Hour
"The Lateness of the Hour" is an episode of the classic science-fiction television series The Twilight Zone, known for its eerie story about a woman who discovers a disturbing secret about her seemingly perfect, robot-served household.
- 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 End of the Night Target entity description: The End of the Night is a 1960 crime novel by John D. MacDonald that follows a group of thrill-seeking young criminals on a violent cross-country spree, exploring themes of moral decay and societal failure.
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A.
End of the Night
"End of the Night" is a song featured on Ludacris's Grammy-winning hip hop album "Release Therapy."
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B.
Something in the Night
"Something in the Night" is a country rock album by American band Pure Prairie League, known for its melodic harmonies and smooth, radio-friendly sound.
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C.
Something in the Night
"Something in the Night" is a brooding, emotionally charged song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album *Darkness on the Edge of Town*, known for its haunting atmosphere and themes of loss and desperation.
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D.
The Lateness of the Hour
The Lateness of the Hour is a 2011 studio album by British singer-songwriter Alex Clare that blends soul, rock, and electronic influences, best known for the hit single "Too Close."
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E.
The Lateness of the Hour
"The Lateness of the Hour" is an episode of the classic science-fiction television series The Twilight Zone, known for its eerie story about a woman who discovers a disturbing secret about her seemingly perfect, robot-served household.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
crime fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasForm |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The End of the Night ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
alienation
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moral decay ⓘ societal failure ⓘ youth violence ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | group of thrill-seeking young criminals ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark portrayal of postwar American youth
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psychological depiction of criminals ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | John D. MacDonald bibliography ⓘ |
| plotElement | violent cross-country crime spree ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
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 End of the Night Description of subject: The End of the Night is a 1960 crime novel by John D. MacDonald that follows a group of thrill-seeking young criminals on a violent cross-country spree, exploring themes of moral decay and societal failure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John