novel "Arrow in the Dust"
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"Arrow in the Dust" is a Western novel by L. L. Foreman that follows a mysterious drifter who takes command of a beleaguered wagon train crossing hostile frontier territory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| novel "Arrow in the Dust" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5043386 — 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: novel "Arrow in the Dust" Context triple: [Arrow in the Dust, basedOn, novel "Arrow in the Dust"]
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A.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
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B.
The Spur
The Spur is a residential area within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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C.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a critically acclaimed Western television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
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D.
True Grit (novel)
True Grit is a 1968 Western novel by Charles Portis that follows a determined 14-year-old girl seeking to avenge her father's murder with the help of a tough U.S. Marshal.
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E.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
- 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: novel "Arrow in the Dust" Target entity description: "Arrow in the Dust" is a Western novel by L. L. Foreman that follows a mysterious drifter who takes command of a beleaguered wagon train crossing hostile frontier territory.
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A.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
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B.
The Spur
The Spur is a residential area within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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C.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a critically acclaimed Western television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
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D.
True Grit (novel)
True Grit is a 1968 Western novel by Charles Portis that follows a determined 14-year-old girl seeking to avenge her father's murder with the help of a tough U.S. Marshal.
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E.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | L. L. Foreman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacterType |
drifter
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frontier scouts ⓘ hostile warriors ⓘ wagon train settlers ⓘ |
| genre | Western fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasStructure | chapters ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Western frontier conflict
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frontier life ⓘ overland travel ⓘ wagon trains ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conflict between settlers and hostile forces
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courage and responsibility ⓘ identity and secrecy ⓘ leadership under pressure ⓘ survival on the frontier ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literarySetting |
American frontier
NERFINISHED
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Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainPlotElement |
crossing hostile frontier territory
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mysterious drifter assumes command ⓘ wagon train under threat ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | L. L. Foreman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: novel "Arrow in the Dust" Description of subject: "Arrow in the Dust" is a Western novel by L. L. Foreman that follows a mysterious drifter who takes command of a beleaguered wagon train crossing hostile frontier territory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.