The Paladin
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The Paladin is a contemporary espionage thriller novel by David Ignatius that follows a disgraced CIA officer seeking revenge and redemption in the age of cyber warfare and disinformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Paladin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11447650 — 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 Paladin Context triple: [David Ignatius, notableWork, The Paladin]
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A.
Paladin’s Grace
Paladin’s Grace is a fantasy romance novel by T. Kingfisher that blends humor, emotional depth, and divine intrigue in the story of a broken paladin and a perfumer entangled in murder and miracles.
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B.
Paladin’s Hope
Paladin’s Hope is a fantasy romance novel by T. Kingfisher set in her Saint of Steel series, blending dark humor, divine magic, and emotionally complex characters.
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C.
Paladin of Souls
Paladin of Souls is an award-winning fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold set in her World of the Five Gods universe, following a middle-aged noblewoman drawn into divine intrigue and personal transformation.
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D.
Swordmaster of Ginaz
Swordmaster of Ginaz is an elite martial title in the Dune universe denoting a master of bladed combat trained in the renowned Ginaz fighting school.
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E.
The Goldyn Targe
The Goldyn Targe is a celebrated allegorical dream-vision poem by Scottish makar William Dunbar, noted for its rich imagery and exploration of love, reason, and the power of the senses.
- 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 Paladin Target entity description: The Paladin is a contemporary espionage thriller novel by David Ignatius that follows a disgraced CIA officer seeking revenge and redemption in the age of cyber warfare and disinformation.
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A.
Paladin’s Grace
Paladin’s Grace is a fantasy romance novel by T. Kingfisher that blends humor, emotional depth, and divine intrigue in the story of a broken paladin and a perfumer entangled in murder and miracles.
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B.
Paladin’s Hope
Paladin’s Hope is a fantasy romance novel by T. Kingfisher set in her Saint of Steel series, blending dark humor, divine magic, and emotionally complex characters.
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C.
Paladin of Souls
Paladin of Souls is an award-winning fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold set in her World of the Five Gods universe, following a middle-aged noblewoman drawn into divine intrigue and personal transformation.
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D.
Swordmaster of Ginaz
Swordmaster of Ginaz is an elite martial title in the Dune universe denoting a master of bladed combat trained in the renowned Ginaz fighting school.
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E.
The Goldyn Targe
The Goldyn Targe is a celebrated allegorical dream-vision poem by Scottish makar William Dunbar, noted for its rich imagery and exploration of love, reason, and the power of the senses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
espionage thriller novel
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novel ⓘ spy novel ⓘ |
| author | David Ignatius ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
espionage fiction
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spy fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAuthorBackgroundIn |
journalism
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national security reporting ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Michael Dunne ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ hardcover ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
cyber warfare
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disinformation ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | CIA officer ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| subject |
Central Intelligence Agency
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fake news ⓘ hacking ⓘ online propaganda ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
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media manipulation ⓘ redemption ⓘ revenge ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
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 Paladin Description of subject: The Paladin is a contemporary espionage thriller novel by David Ignatius that follows a disgraced CIA officer seeking revenge and redemption in the age of cyber warfare and disinformation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.