Stray Dogs (novel)
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Stray Dogs is a crime novel by John Ridley that follows a drifter entangled in a violent, noir-inflected tale of betrayal and survival in the American Southwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stray Dogs (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9113527 — 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: Stray Dogs (novel) Context triple: [John Ridley, notableWork, Stray Dogs (novel)]
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A.
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella best known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a telepathic bond between a boy and his dog as they struggle to survive in a devastated future America.
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B.
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Dogs is a satirical poem by Robert Burns in which two dogs discuss and contrast the lives of the rich and the poor in 18th-century Scotland.
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C.
The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
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D.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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E.
The Dogs of Riga
The Dogs of Riga is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring detective Kurt Wallander investigating a politically charged murder that leads him from Sweden to Latvia.
- 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: Stray Dogs (novel) Target entity description: Stray Dogs is a crime novel by John Ridley that follows a drifter entangled in a violent, noir-inflected tale of betrayal and survival in the American Southwest.
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A.
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella best known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a telepathic bond between a boy and his dog as they struggle to survive in a devastated future America.
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B.
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Dogs is a satirical poem by Robert Burns in which two dogs discuss and contrast the lives of the rich and the poor in 18th-century Scotland.
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C.
The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
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D.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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E.
The Dogs of Riga
The Dogs of Riga is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring detective Kurt Wallander investigating a politically charged murder that leads him from Sweden to Latvia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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noir novel ⓘ |
| author | John Ridley ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse | contemporary American crime setting ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
John Ridley is a novelist
ⓘ
linked to:
John Ridley
John Ridley is a screenwriter ⓘ
linked to:
John Ridley
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| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
betrayal
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survival ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | noir-inflected ⓘ |
| plotElement | violent criminal underworld ⓘ |
| primaryAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | drifter ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
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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: Stray Dogs (novel) Description of subject: Stray Dogs is a crime novel by John Ridley that follows a drifter entangled in a violent, noir-inflected tale of betrayal and survival in the American Southwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.