The Drift (novel)
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The Drift is a gritty crime novel by John Ridley that follows a homeless drifter navigating a bleak, violent urban underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Drift (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9113526 — 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 Drift (novel) Context triple: [John Ridley, notableWork, The Drift (novel)]
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A.
Drift
"Drift" is a song performed by American singer and actress Blake Perlman, known for its atmospheric, cinematic style.
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B.
The Human Drift
The Human Drift is a 1894 utopian and economic treatise by King C. Gillette proposing a radical reorganization of society into a single, efficient, cooperative industrial system.
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C.
Driftin'
"Driftin'" is a blues-rock instrumental track by guitarist Gary Moore from his Peter Green tribute album "Blues for Greeny."
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D.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
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E.
The Twisted Road
The Twisted Road is an alternative title for the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," a crime drama about a young fugitive couple on the run.
- 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 Drift (novel) Target entity description: The Drift is a gritty crime novel by John Ridley that follows a homeless drifter navigating a bleak, violent urban underworld.
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A.
Drift
"Drift" is a song performed by American singer and actress Blake Perlman, known for its atmospheric, cinematic style.
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B.
The Human Drift
The Human Drift is a 1894 utopian and economic treatise by King C. Gillette proposing a radical reorganization of society into a single, efficient, cooperative industrial system.
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C.
Driftin'
"Driftin'" is a blues-rock instrumental track by guitarist Gary Moore from his Peter Green tribute album "Blues for Greeny."
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D.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
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E.
The Twisted Road
The Twisted Road is an alternative title for the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," a crime drama about a young fugitive couple on the run.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | John Ridley ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
marginalized communities
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violent urban environment ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | John Ridley ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
hardboiled
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | homelessness ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Drift ⓘ |
| occupation | novelist ⓘ |
| protagonist | homeless drifter ⓘ |
| setting | urban underworld ⓘ |
| theme |
crime
ⓘ
survival ⓘ urban poverty ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone |
bleak
ⓘ
gritty ⓘ |
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 Drift (novel) Description of subject: The Drift is a gritty crime novel by John Ridley that follows a homeless drifter navigating a bleak, violent urban underworld.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.