The Road Virus
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The Road Virus is a horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister painting that seems to change and draw closer with each viewing, bringing deadly consequences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Road Virus canonical | 1 |
| The Road Virus Heads North | 1 |
| The Road Virus Heads North (short story) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9980396 — 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 Road Virus Context triple: [Full Throttle, hasShortStory, The Road Virus]
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A.
The Virus
"The Virus" is a 1982 political thriller novel by British author Stanley Johnson that imagines a deadly global pandemic and the governmental response to it.
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B.
World Gone By
World Gone By is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane that follows former mobster Joe Coughlin as he navigates the violent underworld of 1940s Florida and Cuba.
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C.
Desolation Road
Desolation Road is a science fiction novel by Ian McDonald that follows the intertwined lives of settlers in a strange, isolated town on a terraformed Mars.
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D.
Ravage
Ravage is a Decepticon spy and attack beast in the Transformers franchise, typically depicted as a stealthy, feline-like robot that specializes in infiltration and reconnaissance.
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E.
Between Three Plagues
"Between Three Plagues" is a historical novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross that vividly reconstructs 16th-century Baltic life through the story of scholar and printer Balthasar Russow amid political and religious upheaval.
- 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 Road Virus Target entity description: The Road Virus is a horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister painting that seems to change and draw closer with each viewing, bringing deadly consequences.
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A.
The Virus
"The Virus" is a 1982 political thriller novel by British author Stanley Johnson that imagines a deadly global pandemic and the governmental response to it.
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B.
World Gone By
World Gone By is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane that follows former mobster Joe Coughlin as he navigates the violent underworld of 1940s Florida and Cuba.
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C.
Desolation Road
Desolation Road is a science fiction novel by Ian McDonald that follows the intertwined lives of settlers in a strange, isolated town on a terraformed Mars.
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D.
Ravage
Ravage is a Decepticon spy and attack beast in the Transformers franchise, typically depicted as a stealthy, feline-like robot that specializes in infiltration and reconnaissance.
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E.
Between Three Plagues
"Between Three Plagues" is a historical novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross that vividly reconstructs 16th-century Baltic life through the story of scholar and printer Balthasar Russow amid political and religious upheaval.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralObject | sinister painting ⓘ |
| conflictType | man vs supernatural ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
malevolent artwork
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premonition of death ⓘ pursuit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter | Richard Kinnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasElement |
cursed object
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psychological horror ⓘ road trip ⓘ supernatural painting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
art and reality blurring
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inevitability of fate ⓘ obsession ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century American horror ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalPublicationMedium | anthology ⓘ |
| plotDevice | painting that changes over time ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | horror writer ⓘ |
| setting |
New England
NERFINISHED
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United States highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tone |
dark
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suspenseful ⓘ |
| workType | short fiction ⓘ |
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 Road Virus Description of subject: The Road Virus is a horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister painting that seems to change and draw closer with each viewing, bringing deadly consequences.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Road Virus Heads North
this entity surface form:
The Road Virus Heads North (short story)