The Black Rider
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The Black Rider is a 1993 avant-garde musical play created by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson, known for its dark, surreal retelling of a German folktale.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Black Rider canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18093067 — 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 Black Rider Context triple: [Bone Machine, followedBy, The Black Rider]
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A.
The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt is a supernatural, spectral cavalcade of hunters and hounds that storms across the sky in European folklore, often seen as an omen of catastrophe or great change.
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B.
The Black Riders and Other Lines
The Black Riders and Other Lines is a collection of brief, free-verse poems noted for their stark imagery, unconventional style, and early modernist sensibility.
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C.
The Black Veil
The Black Veil is a memoir by American author Rick Moody that blends personal history with literary and cultural reflections on shame, family, and mental illness.
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D.
The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse is a British television adaptation of Agatha Christie's mystery novel, featuring Rita Tushingham in a prominent role.
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E.
The Dweller on the Threshold
The Dweller on the Threshold is a supernatural novel by Robert Hichens that explores occult themes, psychological terror, and the confrontation with an ominous metaphysical presence.
- 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 Black Rider Target entity description: The Black Rider is a 1993 avant-garde musical play created by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson, known for its dark, surreal retelling of a German folktale.
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A.
The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt is a supernatural, spectral cavalcade of hunters and hounds that storms across the sky in European folklore, often seen as an omen of catastrophe or great change.
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B.
The Black Riders and Other Lines
The Black Riders and Other Lines is a collection of brief, free-verse poems noted for their stark imagery, unconventional style, and early modernist sensibility.
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C.
The Black Veil
The Black Veil is a memoir by American author Rick Moody that blends personal history with literary and cultural reflections on shame, family, and mental illness.
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D.
The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse is a British television adaptation of Agatha Christie's mystery novel, featuring Rita Tushingham in a prominent role.
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E.
The Dweller on the Threshold
The Dweller on the Threshold is a supernatural novel by Robert Hichens that explores occult themes, psychological terror, and the confrontation with an ominous metaphysical presence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.