The Bone Bed
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The Bone Bed is a crime novel in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series, featuring the forensic pathologist investigating a complex murder linked to dinosaur bones and a missing paleontologist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bone Bed canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11726578 — 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 Bone Bed Context triple: [Patricia Cornwell, notableWork, The Bone Bed]
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A.
The Bone Garden
The Bone Garden is a historical medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that intertwines a modern-day mystery with a series of gruesome murders in 19th-century Boston.
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B.
To the Bone
To the Bone is a 2017 drama film about a young woman’s struggle with anorexia, written and directed by Marti Noxon and starring Lily Collins.
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C.
The Singing Bone
The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.
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D.
Reaper’s Bones
Reaper’s Bones is a player-aligned faction in Sea of Thieves focused on piracy, conflict, and turning in stolen loot for reputation and rewards.
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E.
The Goliath Bone
The Goliath Bone is a hardboiled detective novel by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins featuring private investigator Mike Hammer in a modern, post-9/11 thriller involving biblical relics and international intrigue.
- 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 Bone Bed Target entity description: The Bone Bed is a crime novel in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series, featuring the forensic pathologist investigating a complex murder linked to dinosaur bones and a missing paleontologist.
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A.
The Bone Garden
The Bone Garden is a historical medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that intertwines a modern-day mystery with a series of gruesome murders in 19th-century Boston.
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B.
To the Bone
To the Bone is a 2017 drama film about a young woman’s struggle with anorexia, written and directed by Marti Noxon and starring Lily Collins.
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C.
The Singing Bone
The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.
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D.
Reaper’s Bones
Reaper’s Bones is a player-aligned faction in Sea of Thieves focused on piracy, conflict, and turning in stolen loot for reputation and rewards.
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E.
The Goliath Bone
The Goliath Bone is a hardboiled detective novel by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins featuring private investigator Mike Hammer in a modern, post-9/11 thriller involving biblical relics and international intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kay Scarpetta novel
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crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | Patricia Cornwell ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
dinosaur fossils
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disappearance of a paleontologist ⓘ forensic investigation ⓘ murder investigation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresCharacter |
Benton Wesley
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Lucy Farinelli ⓘ Pete Marino ⓘ |
| featuresDiscipline |
forensic science
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paleontology ⓘ |
| featuresProfession | paleontologist ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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forensic crime fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Kay Scarpetta universe
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linked to:
Kay Scarpetta series
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| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kay Scarpetta ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Kay Scarpetta series ⓘ |
| plotElement |
complex murder case
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dinosaur bones ⓘ missing paleontologist ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | forensic pathologist ⓘ |
| publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons
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linked to:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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| settingLocation |
Boston
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Massachusetts ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Bone Bed Description of subject: The Bone Bed is a crime novel in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series, featuring the forensic pathologist investigating a complex murder linked to dinosaur bones and a missing paleontologist.
Referenced by (6)
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