Cities of the Plain
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Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cities of the Plain canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902797 — 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: Cities of the Plain Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Cities of the Plain]
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A.
Lords of the Plains
Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
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B.
Cimarron
Cimarron is a 1981 country music album by Emmylou Harris known for its blend of contemporary country and pop-influenced songs.
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C.
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
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D.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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E.
Land of My Fathers
Land of My Fathers is the English title of the Welsh national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the heritage and landscape of Wales.
- 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: Cities of the Plain Target entity description: Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
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A.
Lords of the Plains
Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
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B.
Cimarron
Cimarron is a 1981 country music album by Emmylou Harris known for its blend of contemporary country and pop-influenced songs.
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C.
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
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D.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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E.
Land of My Fathers
Land of My Fathers is the English title of the Welsh national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the heritage and landscape of Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Cities of the Plain Description of subject: Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cormac McCarthy