The Highway
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"The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Highway canonical | 4 |
| Hernando lives beside a highway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4915561 — 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 Highway Context triple: [The Illustrated Man, containsWork, The Highway]
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A.
New Road
New Road was the original name of what is now Euston Road, a major thoroughfare in central London developed in the 18th century as part of the city's early bypass routes.
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B.
Indian Head Highway
Indian Head Highway is a major roadway in Maryland that connects the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with communities in southern Prince George’s and Charles counties, including the town of Indian Head.
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C.
All-American Road
An All-American Road is a premier designation within the U.S. National Scenic Byways Program given to routes that offer exceptional scenic, cultural, historic, and recreational experiences considered nationally significant and destination-worthy on their own.
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D.
Key to the Highway
"Key to the Highway" is a classic blues standard, most famously associated with Big Bill Broonzy and later covered by numerous artists including Eric Clapton.
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E.
Highway 2
Highway 2 is a major north–south provincial highway in Saskatchewan, Canada, connecting several key communities and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- 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 Highway Target entity description: "The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
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A.
New Road
New Road was the original name of what is now Euston Road, a major thoroughfare in central London developed in the 18th century as part of the city's early bypass routes.
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B.
Indian Head Highway
Indian Head Highway is a major roadway in Maryland that connects the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with communities in southern Prince George’s and Charles counties, including the town of Indian Head.
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C.
All-American Road
An All-American Road is a premier designation within the U.S. National Scenic Byways Program given to routes that offer exceptional scenic, cultural, historic, and recreational experiences considered nationally significant and destination-worthy on their own.
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D.
Key to the Highway
"Key to the Highway" is a classic blues standard, most famously associated with Big Bill Broonzy and later covered by numerous artists including Eric Clapton.
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E.
Highway 2
Highway 2 is a major north–south provincial highway in Saskatchewan, Canada, connecting several key communities and serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Ray Bradbury ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Highway ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hernando ⓘ |
| motif |
distance between center and periphery
ⓘ
road ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| plotElement |
Hernando encounters passing motorists
ⓘ
Hernando lives beside a highway ⓘ
linked to:
The Highway
news of distant war or disaster ⓘ travelers bring news of a global catastrophe ⓘ |
| protagonistNationality | Mexican ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | farmer ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | rural area ⓘ |
| settingFeature | remote road ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Mexico ⓘ |
| theme |
end of the world
ⓘ
ignorance and innocence ⓘ impact of global events on individuals ⓘ isolation ⓘ perception of civilization ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Ray Bradbury 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 Highway Description of subject: "The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Highway