The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
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The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes is a dark, surreal short story by Rudyard Kipling about a British engineer who becomes trapped in a nightmarish sand-pit village of the living dead.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11824382 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes Context triple: [Plain Tales from the Hills, hasPart, The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes]
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The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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B.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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C.
The Great Unknown: The Adventure of My Aunt
"The Great Unknown: The Adventure of My Aunt" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring a humorous and mysterious tale of an aunt's extraordinary adventure.
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D.
Caddiegal
Caddiegal is an alternative name for the Gadigal, an Aboriginal group of the Eora Nation traditionally associated with the area around present-day Sydney, Australia.
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E.
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes Target entity description: The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes is a dark, surreal short story by Rudyard Kipling about a British engineer who becomes trapped in a nightmarish sand-pit village of the living dead.
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A.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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B.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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C.
The Great Unknown: The Adventure of My Aunt
"The Great Unknown: The Adventure of My Aunt" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring a humorous and mysterious tale of an aunt's extraordinary adventure.
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D.
Caddiegal
Caddiegal is an alternative name for the Gadigal, an Aboriginal group of the Eora Nation traditionally associated with the area around present-day Sydney, Australia.
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E.
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction
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short story ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
colonial anxiety
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death and the living dead ⓘ entrapment ⓘ loss of control ⓘ madness ⓘ social exclusion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | British India ⓘ |
| depicts |
a closed, inescapable community
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psychological breakdown of the protagonist ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Gunga Dass
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Morrowbie Jukes ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fiction
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psychological horror ⓘ surreal fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasMoralOrMessage |
critiques social hierarchies and abandonment
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questions the stability of civilized identity ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Morrowbie Jukes ⓘ |
| includedIn | collections of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | late Victorian literature ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of Kipling’s early weird tales ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1885 ⓘ |
| periodOfPublication | 19th century ⓘ |
| plotElement |
impossibility of escape from the pit
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protagonist trapped in a sand-pit village ⓘ village inhabited by people believed to be dead ⓘ |
| protagonist | Morrowbie Jukes ⓘ |
| setting | British India ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | British colonial era in India ⓘ |
| tone |
macabre
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nightmarish ⓘ surreal ⓘ |
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