The Way Station
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"The Way Station" is a short story by Stephen King that was later incorporated as a section of his dark fantasy novel "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger," following Roland Deschain's journey through a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Way Station canonical | 3 |
| The Way Station (short story) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8950794 — 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 Way Station Context triple: [The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, shortStoryComponent, The Way Station]
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A.
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
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B.
A Mind Forever Voyaging
A Mind Forever Voyaging is a pioneering 1985 interactive fiction game by Infocom that explores political and philosophical themes through the perspective of a sentient computer.
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C.
A Fire Upon the Deep
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
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D.
The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
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E.
The Stars My Destination
The Stars My Destination is a classic 1956 science fiction novel by Alfred Bester, renowned for its revenge-driven plot, innovative narrative style, and lasting influence on the cyberpunk genre.
- 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 Way Station Target entity description: "The Way Station" is a short story by Stephen King that was later incorporated as a section of his dark fantasy novel "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger," following Roland Deschain's journey through a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape.
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A.
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
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B.
A Mind Forever Voyaging
A Mind Forever Voyaging is a pioneering 1985 interactive fiction game by Infocom that explores political and philosophical themes through the perspective of a sentient computer.
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C.
A Fire Upon the Deep
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
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D.
The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
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E.
The Stars My Destination
The Stars My Destination is a classic 1956 science fiction novel by Alfred Bester, renowned for its revenge-driven plot, innovative narrative style, and lasting influence on the cyberpunk genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| belongsToFranchise | The Dark Tower ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter | Jake Chambers ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | short story ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | Roland Deschain ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Roland Deschain ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fate
ⓘ
isolation ⓘ memory ⓘ quest ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Way Station ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterIncorporatedInto | The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Roland Deschain ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOf | The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
ⓘ
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger ⓘ |
| series |
The Dark Tower
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dark Tower (novel)
|
| setting |
desert landscape
ⓘ
post-apocalyptic world ⓘ |
| universe | The Dark Tower universe ⓘ |
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: The Way Station Description of subject: "The Way Station" is a short story by Stephen King that was later incorporated as a section of his dark fantasy novel "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger," following Roland Deschain's journey through a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Way Station