The Road Through the Wall
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The Road Through the Wall is Shirley Jackson’s debut novel, a darkly comic exploration of suburban life and hidden malice in a seemingly ordinary American neighborhood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Road Through the Wall canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316772 — 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 Through the Wall Context triple: [Hangsaman, precededBy, The Road Through the Wall]
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A.
Beyond the Wall
Beyond the Wall is the vast, frozen wilderness north of the Wall in the world of Game of Thrones, inhabited by wildling tribes and supernatural threats.
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B.
The Town Beyond the Wall
The Town Beyond the Wall is a novel by Elie Wiesel that explores memory, guilt, and the Holocaust through a survivor’s return to his Eastern European hometown after World War II.
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C.
The Road Back
The Road Back is a 1931 novel by Erich Maria Remarque that follows German soldiers struggling to readjust to civilian life after the trauma of World War I, serving as a companion to his famous work All Quiet on the Western Front.
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D.
The Road to Nowhere
The Road to Nowhere is a romantic adventure novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin, known for its dreamlike atmosphere and exploration of idealism and destiny.
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E.
Behind the Walls
"Behind the Walls" is a monumental outdoor sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, depicting an elongated female head covering her eyes with her hands.
- 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 Through the Wall Target entity description: The Road Through the Wall is Shirley Jackson’s debut novel, a darkly comic exploration of suburban life and hidden malice in a seemingly ordinary American neighborhood.
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A.
Beyond the Wall
Beyond the Wall is the vast, frozen wilderness north of the Wall in the world of Game of Thrones, inhabited by wildling tribes and supernatural threats.
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B.
The Town Beyond the Wall
The Town Beyond the Wall is a novel by Elie Wiesel that explores memory, guilt, and the Holocaust through a survivor’s return to his Eastern European hometown after World War II.
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C.
The Road Back
The Road Back is a 1931 novel by Erich Maria Remarque that follows German soldiers struggling to readjust to civilian life after the trauma of World War I, serving as a companion to his famous work All Quiet on the Western Front.
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D.
The Road to Nowhere
The Road to Nowhere is a romantic adventure novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin, known for its dreamlike atmosphere and exploration of idealism and destiny.
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E.
Behind the Walls
"Behind the Walls" is a monumental outdoor sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, depicting an elongated female head covering her eyes with her hands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts | seemingly ordinary American neighborhood ⓘ |
| explores |
moral corruption in everyday life
ⓘ
tensions within a close-knit community ⓘ the gap between appearance and reality ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacterType | middle-class suburban residents ⓘ |
| hasNotableAspect |
early example of Shirley Jackson’s interest in domestic horror
ⓘ
satirical portrayal of American suburbia ⓘ |
| hasStructure | linear narrative ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | standalone novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | darkly comic tone ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | suburban life ⓘ |
| setting | suburban American neighborhood ⓘ |
| theme |
conformity in suburbia
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cruelty and exclusion ⓘ hidden malice beneath ordinary life ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Road Through the Wall Description of subject: The Road Through the Wall is Shirley Jackson’s debut novel, a darkly comic exploration of suburban life and hidden malice in a seemingly ordinary American neighborhood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
novel "Hangsaman"