The Road Ahead
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The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Road Ahead canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T962802 — 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 Road Ahead Context triple: [Bill Gates, authorOf, The Road Ahead]
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A.
How Tomorrow Moves
"How Tomorrow Moves" is the corporate slogan used by CSX Transportation to emphasize its role in modern, forward-looking freight rail services.
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B.
A Path Where No Man Thought
A Path Where No Man Thought is a science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan that explores nuclear winter and the catastrophic global consequences of nuclear war.
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C.
Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia is a 1946 musical comedy film in the popular "Road to..." series, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as scheming entertainers caught up in Alaskan gold-rush adventures.
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D.
The Open Road
"The Open Road" is a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, depicting the characters' adventures and sense of freedom while traveling.
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E.
Freedom Next Time
Freedom Next Time is a political non-fiction book by journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger that critiques Western foreign policy and media complicity in global injustices.
- 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 Road Ahead Target entity description: The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
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A.
How Tomorrow Moves
"How Tomorrow Moves" is the corporate slogan used by CSX Transportation to emphasize its role in modern, forward-looking freight rail services.
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B.
A Path Where No Man Thought
A Path Where No Man Thought is a science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan that explores nuclear winter and the catastrophic global consequences of nuclear war.
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C.
Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia is a 1946 musical comedy film in the popular "Road to..." series, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as scheming entertainers caught up in Alaskan gold-rush adventures.
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D.
The Open Road
"The Open Road" is a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, depicting the characters' adventures and sense of freedom while traveling.
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E.
Freedom Next Time
Freedom Next Time is a political non-fiction book by journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger that critiques Western foreign policy and media complicity in global injustices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Bill Gates ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Nathan Myhrvold
ⓘ
Peter Rinearson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Business @ the Speed of Thought ⓘ |
| genre |
business
ⓘ
future studies ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOf | Bill Gates ⓘ |
| hasUpdatedEdition | 1996 revised edition ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
business leaders
ⓘ
general readers ⓘ technology enthusiasts ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-670-86814-8 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marketReception | bestseller ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notablePersonMentioned |
Paul Allen
ⓘ
Steve Ballmer ⓘ |
| organizationMentioned |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
IBM ⓘ Microsoft ⓘ |
| pages | approximately 286 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Penguin Books
ⓘ
The Viking Press ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
|
| revisedEditionFocus |
World Wide Web
ⓘ
internet growth ⓘ |
| setInContextOf | 1990s technology boom ⓘ |
| subject |
business and technology
ⓘ
digital revolution ⓘ information technology ⓘ internet ⓘ personal computing ⓘ societal impact of technology ⓘ |
| topic |
digital communication
ⓘ
education and technology ⓘ electronic commerce ⓘ future of computing ⓘ information superhighway ⓘ networked society ⓘ privacy and technology ⓘ regulation of the internet ⓘ software industry ⓘ workplace of the future ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Road Ahead Description of subject: The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
Referenced by (2)
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