The Road
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The Road is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel, following a father and son’s harrowing journey through a devastated world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Road canonical | 8 |
| The Road (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17904955 — 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 Road Context triple: [Michael K. Williams, notableWork, The Road]
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A.
The Road
The Road is a song featured on the 1977 album "Running on Empty" by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
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B.
The Road
"The Road" is a play by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka that explores themes of death, fate, and spiritual dislocation through the lives of drivers and drifters on a perilous Nigerian highway.
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C.
The Road
The Road is a bleak, post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a father and son’s harrowing journey through a devastated landscape, widely acclaimed for its spare prose and emotional intensity.
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D.
The Road
The Road is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini, widely regarded as one of his masterpieces and a landmark of world cinema.
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E.
The Road and the End
"The Road and the End" is a lyric poem by Carl Sandburg, included in his influential 1916 collection *Chicago Poems*, that reflects his characteristic free verse style and themes of journey, struggle, and perseverance.
- 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 Road Target entity description: The Road is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel, following a father and son’s harrowing journey through a devastated world.
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A.
The Road
The Road is a bleak, post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a father and son’s harrowing journey through a devastated landscape, widely acclaimed for its spare prose and emotional intensity.
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B.
The Road
The Road is a song featured on the 1977 album "Running on Empty" by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
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C.
The Road
"The Road" is a play by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka that explores themes of death, fate, and spiritual dislocation through the lives of drivers and drifters on a perilous Nigerian highway.
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D.
The Road
The Road is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini, widely regarded as one of his masterpieces and a landmark of world cinema.
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E.
The Road and the End
"The Road and the End" is a lyric poem by Carl Sandburg, included in his influential 1916 collection *Chicago Poems*, that reflects his characteristic free verse style and themes of journey, struggle, and perseverance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.