The Road to the Sea
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"The Road to the Sea" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores humanity’s relationship with exploration and the unknown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Road to the Sea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4880120 — 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 to the Sea Context triple: [The Other Side of the Sky, containsWork, The Road to the Sea]
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A.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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B.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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C.
To the Sea
To the Sea is a mellow, introspective 2010 studio album by Hawaiian singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends acoustic surf rock with themes of family, memory, and the ocean.
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D.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
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E.
March to the Sea
March to the Sea was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating 1864 Civil War campaign across Georgia, aimed at crippling the Confederacy’s war-making capacity through widespread destruction of infrastructure and supplies.
- 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 to the Sea Target entity description: "The Road to the Sea" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores humanity’s relationship with exploration and the unknown.
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A.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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B.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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C.
To the Sea
To the Sea is a mellow, introspective 2010 studio album by Hawaiian singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends acoustic surf rock with themes of family, memory, and the ocean.
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D.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
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E.
March to the Sea
March to the Sea was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating 1864 Civil War campaign across Georgia, aimed at crippling the Confederacy’s war-making capacity through widespread destruction of infrastructure and supplies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction short story
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| authorFullName |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
ⓘ
linked to:
Arthur C. Clarke
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| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| collectionTitle | The Other Side of the Sky ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Arthur C. Clarke fiction ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorProfession |
futurist
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inventor ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | The Other Side of the Sky ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
exploration
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humanity’s relationship with exploration ⓘ the unknown ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| workType | prose ⓘ |
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 to the Sea Description of subject: "The Road to the Sea" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores humanity’s relationship with exploration and the unknown.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.