Cross-Country Snow
E307925
Cross-Country Snow is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows two friends skiing in the Swiss Alps while confronting unspoken tensions and impending responsibilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cross-Country Snow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2880998 — 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: Cross-Country Snow Context triple: [In Our Time, hasPart, Cross-Country Snow]
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A.
The Slopes
The Slopes is a historic landscaped park in Buxton, Derbyshire, known for its terraced walks, ornamental gardens, and views over the town’s spa architecture.
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B.
Downhill
Downhill is a 2020 American black comedy-drama film, a remake of the Swedish film "Force Majeure," starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell as a couple whose marriage is tested during a family ski vacation.
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C.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
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D.
Cross in the Mountains
Cross in the Mountains is a seminal early 19th-century Romantic altarpiece painting by Caspar David Friedrich that depicts a crucifix atop a mountain landscape, symbolically merging Christian spirituality with the sublime power of nature.
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E.
Snowbird
Snowbird is a major ski and snowboard resort in Utah known for its steep terrain, deep powder, and long winter season.
- 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: Cross-Country Snow Target entity description: Cross-Country Snow is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows two friends skiing in the Swiss Alps while confronting unspoken tensions and impending responsibilities.
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A.
The Slopes
The Slopes is a historic landscaped park in Buxton, Derbyshire, known for its terraced walks, ornamental gardens, and views over the town’s spa architecture.
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B.
Downhill
Downhill is a 2020 American black comedy-drama film, a remake of the Swedish film "Force Majeure," starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell as a couple whose marriage is tested during a family ski vacation.
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C.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
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D.
Cross in the Mountains
Cross in the Mountains is a seminal early 19th-century Romantic altarpiece painting by Caspar David Friedrich that depicts a crucifix atop a mountain landscape, symbolically merging Christian spirituality with the sublime power of nature.
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E.
Snowbird
Snowbird is a major ski and snowboard resort in Utah known for its steep terrain, deep powder, and long winter season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
| collection | In Our Time ⓘ |
| conflictType |
internal conflict
ⓘ
interpersonal conflict ⓘ |
| containsScene |
conversation in a mountain inn
ⓘ
skiing downhill in deep snow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter |
George
ⓘ
Nick Adams ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Transatlantic Review ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasDialogueBetween | Nick Adams and George ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
marriage
ⓘ
pregnancy ⓘ responsibility versus freedom ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterIncludedIn | In Our Time ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
iceberg theory
ⓘ
minimalist dialogue ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nick Adams ⓘ |
| motif |
alcohol
ⓘ
skiing ⓘ snow ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| partOf | Nick Adams stories ⓘ |
| placeOfComposition | Europe ⓘ |
| protagonistLifeChange | impending fatherhood ⓘ |
| protagonistStatus | American expatriate ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstAppearance | The Transatlantic Review ⓘ |
| setting | Swiss Alps ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship
ⓘ
impending responsibility ⓘ loss of freedom ⓘ masculinity ⓘ transition to adulthood ⓘ unspoken tension ⓘ |
| tone |
melancholic
ⓘ
nostalgic ⓘ |
| wordCountApproximate | short fiction length ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Cross-Country Snow Description of subject: Cross-Country Snow is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows two friends skiing in the Swiss Alps while confronting unspoken tensions and impending responsibilities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.