Decomposition
E375615
Decomposition is a short story from David Benioff’s collection "When the Nines Roll Over," exploring themes of decay, change, and the unraveling of personal or artistic integrity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Decomposition canonical | 1 |
| Précis de décomposition | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3633306 — 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: Decomposition Context triple: [When the Nines Roll Over, hasStory, Decomposition]
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A.
near-decomposability
Near-decomposability is a systems theory concept describing complex systems that can be understood as loosely coupled subsystems whose internal interactions are much stronger than their interactions with other subsystems.
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B.
Fitting decomposition
Fitting decomposition is a fundamental theorem in group theory that expresses a finite group as a product of its largest nilpotent normal subgroup and a complementary subgroup, playing a key role in the structural analysis of groups.
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C.
Partition
"Partition" is a 2013 Beyoncé song from her self-titled visual album, known for its sensual lyrics, bass-heavy production, and provocative music video.
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D.
Breakdown
"Breakdown" is a 1976 rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its moody groove, sparse arrangement, and status as one of the band's early signature tracks.
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E.
Composite
Composite is a structural design pattern that lets you treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly by organizing them into tree-like hierarchies.
- 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: Decomposition Target entity description: Decomposition is a short story from David Benioff’s collection "When the Nines Roll Over," exploring themes of decay, change, and the unraveling of personal or artistic integrity.
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A.
near-decomposability
Near-decomposability is a systems theory concept describing complex systems that can be understood as loosely coupled subsystems whose internal interactions are much stronger than their interactions with other subsystems.
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B.
Fitting decomposition
Fitting decomposition is a fundamental theorem in group theory that expresses a finite group as a product of its largest nilpotent normal subgroup and a complementary subgroup, playing a key role in the structural analysis of groups.
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C.
Partition
"Partition" is a 2013 Beyoncé song from her self-titled visual album, known for its sensual lyrics, bass-heavy production, and provocative music video.
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D.
Breakdown
"Breakdown" is a 1976 rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its moody groove, sparse arrangement, and status as one of the band's early signature tracks.
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E.
Composite
Composite is a structural design pattern that lets you treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly by organizing them into tree-like hierarchies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | David Benioff ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationEra | early 2000s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creator | David Benioff ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| includedInCollection |
When the Nines Roll Over (short story collection)
ⓘ
surface form:
When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
character-driven narrative
ⓘ
symbolism of decay ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fiction ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
artistic integrity
ⓘ
personal integrity ⓘ |
| partOf | When the Nines Roll Over ⓘ |
| publicationType | short fiction ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection |
The Viking Press
ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
|
| theme |
change
ⓘ
decay ⓘ unraveling of artistic integrity ⓘ unraveling of personal integrity ⓘ |
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: Decomposition Description of subject: Decomposition is a short story from David Benioff’s collection "When the Nines Roll Over," exploring themes of decay, change, and the unraveling of personal or artistic integrity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Précis de décomposition