The Fireman
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The Fireman is a post-apocalyptic horror novel by Joe Hill about a mysterious spore that causes people to spontaneously combust and a group of survivors struggling to endure the ensuing chaos.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Fireman canonical | 10 |
| The Fireman (2016 novel) | 1 |
| The Fireman (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725417 — 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 Fireman Context triple: [Joe Hill, notableWork, The Fireman]
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A.
The Fireman
The Fireman is an experimental music project by Paul McCartney and producer Youth, known for its ambient, electronic, and psychedelic soundscapes.
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The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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C.
Il fuoco
"Il fuoco" is a 1900 novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, renowned for its decadent style and its thinly veiled portrayal of his passionate affair with actress Eleonora Duse against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Venice.
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D.
Sleep Now in the Fire
"Sleep Now in the Fire" is a politically charged rap metal song by Rage Against the Machine, known for its critique of capitalism and its controversial music video directed by Michael Moore.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- 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 Fireman Target entity description: The Fireman is a post-apocalyptic horror novel by Joe Hill about a mysterious spore that causes people to spontaneously combust and a group of survivors struggling to endure the ensuing chaos.
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A.
The Fireman
The Fireman is an experimental music project by Paul McCartney and producer Youth, known for its ambient, electronic, and psychedelic soundscapes.
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B.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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C.
Il fuoco
"Il fuoco" is a 1900 novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, renowned for its decadent style and its thinly veiled portrayal of his passionate affair with actress Eleonora Duse against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Venice.
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D.
Sleep Now in the Fire
"Sleep Now in the Fire" is a politically charged rap metal song by Rage Against the Machine, known for its critique of capitalism and its controversial music video directed by Michael Moore.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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post-apocalyptic horror novel ⓘ |
| author | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| authorFather | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralConflict | survival during a global plague caused by a spore called Dragonscale ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
fire
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infection ⓘ pregnancy and parenthood ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresElement |
group of survivors
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mysterious spore that causes spontaneous combustion ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
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post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist |
Dragonscale plague
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violent human mobs ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination | Goodreads Choice Award for Horror ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Allie
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Father Storey ⓘ Harper Grayson ⓘ Jakob Grayson ⓘ John Rookwood ⓘ Martha Quinn ⓘ Nick ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780062200631 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Harper Grayson
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The Fireman ⓘ |
| hasMotive | explore human responses to pandemic-level catastrophe ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | standalone novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of horror and disaster fiction
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depiction of a combustion-causing infection ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 768 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2016-05-17 ⓘ |
| publisher | William Morrow and Company ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | near future ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
community
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fear of contagion ⓘ hope amid catastrophe ⓘ survival ⓘ violence and mob mentality ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: The Fireman Description of subject: The Fireman is a post-apocalyptic horror novel by Joe Hill about a mysterious spore that causes people to spontaneously combust and a group of survivors struggling to endure the ensuing chaos.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Fireman
linked to: The Fireman