The White Road
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The White Road is a short story by Neil Gaiman featured in his collection "Smoke and Mirrors," blending dark fantasy with folkloric and mythic elements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The White Road canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875504 — 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 White Road Context triple: [Smoke and Mirrors, containsWork, The White Road]
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A.
The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road is a biblical opera-oratorio by composer Kurt Weill that dramatizes Jewish history and persecution through a series of staged Old Testament scenes.
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B.
The Thorny Path
The Thorny Path is a painting by 19th-century French artist Thomas Couture, reflecting his characteristic blend of academic technique and moral or allegorical subject matter.
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C.
The Wayfarer
The Wayfarer is a narrative song from Bruce Springsteen’s album *Western Stars*, reflecting themes of travel, aging, and introspection.
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D.
The Twisted Road
The Twisted Road is an alternative title for the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," a crime drama about a young fugitive couple on the run.
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E.
La Voie royale
La Voie royale is an early adventure novel by André Malraux that follows treasure hunters in the Cambodian jungle while exploring themes of existentialism, colonialism, and human destiny.
- 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 White Road Target entity description: The White Road is a short story by Neil Gaiman featured in his collection "Smoke and Mirrors," blending dark fantasy with folkloric and mythic elements.
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A.
The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road is a biblical opera-oratorio by composer Kurt Weill that dramatizes Jewish history and persecution through a series of staged Old Testament scenes.
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B.
The Thorny Path
The Thorny Path is a painting by 19th-century French artist Thomas Couture, reflecting his characteristic blend of academic technique and moral or allegorical subject matter.
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C.
The Wayfarer
The Wayfarer is a narrative song from Bruce Springsteen’s album *Western Stars*, reflecting themes of travel, aging, and introspection.
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D.
The Twisted Road
The Twisted Road is an alternative title for the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," a crime drama about a young fugitive couple on the run.
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E.
La Voie royale
La Voie royale is an early adventure novel by André Malraux that follows treasure hunters in the Cambodian jungle while exploring themes of existentialism, colonialism, and human destiny.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| authorOfWorkType | fantasy author ⓘ |
| collection | Smoke and Mirrors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictional | true ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Smoke and Mirrors ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
fantasy fiction ⓘ folklore-inspired fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasDarkTone | true ⓘ |
| hasFolkloricElements | true ⓘ |
| hasMythicElements | true ⓘ |
| includedIn | short story collections by Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| isStandaloneStory | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | speculative fiction ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| partOf | Neil Gaiman bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Avon Books ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult ⓘ |
| workLength | short ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The White Road Description of subject: The White Road is a short story by Neil Gaiman featured in his collection "Smoke and Mirrors," blending dark fantasy with folkloric and mythic elements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.