Dead-Wood
E725798
"Dead-Wood" is a horror short story by Joe Hill, featured in his acclaimed collection *20th Century Ghosts*, that blends supernatural elements with emotionally resonant themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dead-Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319384 — 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: Dead-Wood Context triple: [20th Century Ghosts, containsWork, Dead-Wood]
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A.
The Wood-Pile
"The Wood-Pile" is a contemplative nature poem by Robert Frost that reflects on isolation, human intervention in the natural world, and the passage of time.
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B.
The Wood
"The Wood" is a 1999 coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows three lifelong friends in Inglewood, California, as they reminisce about their youth on the day of one friend's wedding.
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C.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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D.
Felling
Felling is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, situated on the south bank of the River Tyne near Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne.
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E.
In the Woods
In the Woods is a 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Asher B. Durand, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s detailed and reverent depiction of the natural world.
- 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: Dead-Wood Target entity description: "Dead-Wood" is a horror short story by Joe Hill, featured in his acclaimed collection *20th Century Ghosts*, that blends supernatural elements with emotionally resonant themes.
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A.
The Wood-Pile
"The Wood-Pile" is a contemplative nature poem by Robert Frost that reflects on isolation, human intervention in the natural world, and the passage of time.
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B.
The Wood
"The Wood" is a 1999 coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows three lifelong friends in Inglewood, California, as they reminisce about their youth on the day of one friend's wedding.
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C.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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D.
Felling
Felling is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, situated on the south bank of the River Tyne near Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne.
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E.
In the Woods
In the Woods is a 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Asher B. Durand, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s detailed and reverent depiction of the natural world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenreMovement | contemporary horror fiction ⓘ |
| author | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception | positively reviewed ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Joe Hill fiction universe ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
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emotional trauma ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ supernatural ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | 20th Century Ghosts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st century literature ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| notableFor | blend of horror and emotional depth ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorBibliography | Joe Hill bibliography ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workType | standalone story within a collection ⓘ |
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: Dead-Wood Description of subject: "Dead-Wood" is a horror short story by Joe Hill, featured in his acclaimed collection *20th Century Ghosts*, that blends supernatural elements with emotionally resonant themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.