Overload
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Overload is a 1987 science fiction novel by Arthur Hailey that explores the vulnerabilities and politics of a major electric utility company facing crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Overload canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10572353 — 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: Overload Context triple: [Overload, title, Overload]
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A.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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B.
Overload
"Overload" is a song featured on the album "All I Want Is You."
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C.
The Overwhelming
The Overwhelming is an English rendering of the Arabic term "Al-Ghashiyah," referring to the all-encompassing event of the Day of Judgment described in the Qur'anic chapter Surah Al-Ghashiyah.
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D.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
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E.
Ovrkast
Ovrkast is an American hip-hop producer and rapper known for his moody, jazz-inflected beats and collaborations with prominent contemporary rap artists.
- 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: Overload Target entity description: Overload is a 1987 science fiction novel by Arthur Hailey that explores the vulnerabilities and politics of a major electric utility company facing crisis.
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A.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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B.
Overload
"Overload" is a song featured on the album "All I Want Is You."
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C.
The Overwhelming
The Overwhelming is an English rendering of the Arabic term "Al-Ghashiyah," referring to the all-encompassing event of the Day of Judgment described in the Qur'anic chapter Surah Al-Ghashiyah.
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D.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
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E.
Ovrkast
Ovrkast is an American hip-hop producer and rapper known for his moody, jazz-inflected beats and collaborations with prominent contemporary rap artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Hailey ⓘ |
| character |
Karen Goldman
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Leo Wozniak ⓘ Nim Goldman ⓘ Ralph "R.B." Rudin ⓘ Teresa Van Buren ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
operations of a large electric utility company
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public opposition to power plants ⓘ regulatory and political pressures on utilities ⓘ risk of widespread blackouts ⓘ |
| followedBy | Strong Medicine ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
corporate responsibility
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energy crisis ⓘ politics of a major electric utility company ⓘ terrorism against infrastructure ⓘ vulnerabilities of electric power systems ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of electric power generation and distribution
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integration of technical detail into popular fiction ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arthur Hailey bibliography
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linked to:
Arthur Hailey
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| plotSummary | The novel follows Nim Goldman, an executive at a large electric utility, as he confronts system overloads, political pressure, public opposition, and sabotage threatening the power grid. ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Moneychangers ⓘ |
| protagonist | Nim Goldman ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Overload Description of subject: Overload is a 1987 science fiction novel by Arthur Hailey that explores the vulnerabilities and politics of a major electric utility company facing crisis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.