The Trail of '98 (novel)
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The Trail of '98 is a novel set during the Klondike Gold Rush, depicting the perilous journeys and harsh realities faced by fortune seekers in the Yukon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Trail of '98 | 1 |
| The Trail of '98 (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3664700 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Trail of '98 (novel) Context triple: [The Trail of '98 (1928 film), basedOn, The Trail of '98 (novel)]
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End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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B.
The Mule
The Mule is a central antagonist in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, a powerful mutant with extraordinary mental abilities that threaten the course of the Galactic Empire's predicted future.
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C.
The Mule
The Mule is a 2018 American crime drama film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as an elderly drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
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D.
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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E.
Broken Trail
Broken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries that follows an aging cowboy and his estranged nephew as they escort a herd of horses and rescue a group of Chinese women in the American West.
- 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 Trail of '98 (novel) Target entity description: The Trail of '98 is a novel set during the Klondike Gold Rush, depicting the perilous journeys and harsh realities faced by fortune seekers in the Yukon.
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A.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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B.
The Mule
The Mule is a central antagonist in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, a powerful mutant with extraordinary mental abilities that threaten the course of the Galactic Empire's predicted future.
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C.
The Mule
The Mule is a 2018 American crime drama film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as an elderly drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
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D.
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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E.
Broken Trail
Broken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries that follows an aging cowboy and his estranged nephew as they escort a herd of horses and rescue a group of Chinese women in the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Klondike Gold Rush literature ⓘ |
| author | Robert W. Service ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| depicts | fortune seekers in the Yukon ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
journeys to the goldfields
ⓘ
realities of gold rush life ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure novel
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Trail of '98 (1928 film) ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
frontier life
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gold prospecting ⓘ human endurance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | early 20th-century adventure fiction ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
hardship of gold seekers
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harsh northern environment ⓘ perilous journeys ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| portrays |
dangers of the Klondike trails
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struggle for survival in the North ⓘ |
| setting |
Klondike Gold Rush
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linked to:
Klondike Gold Rush (1897–1898)
Yukon ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 1890s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Trail of '98 (novel) Description of subject: The Trail of '98 is a novel set during the Klondike Gold Rush, depicting the perilous journeys and harsh realities faced by fortune seekers in the Yukon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Trail of '98 (novel)