The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow

E114638

literary work short story

The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection Strange Pilgrims, that follows a young Colombian couple in Europe whose honeymoon turns tragic after a minor injury leads to a mysterious and fatal medical ordeal.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve	2
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T965984 — 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 Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Context triple: [Strange Pilgrims, hasPart, The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow]

A. Winter Kills
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B. The Mountain Shadow
The Mountain Shadow is a novel by Gregory David Roberts that continues the adventures of Lin, an Australian fugitive navigating the criminal underworld and spiritual quests in India, serving as the sequel to Shantaram.
C. Twilight in the Wilderness
"Twilight in the Wilderness" is a celebrated 1860 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic sunset sky and luminous depiction of the American wilderness.
D. City of Winters
The City of Winters is a small agricultural and wine-country community in Northern California known for its historic downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation areas.
E. The Long Loneliness
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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 Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Target entity description: The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection Strange Pilgrims, that follows a young Colombian couple in Europe whose honeymoon turns tragic after a minor injury leads to a mysterious and fatal medical ordeal.

A. Winter Kills
Winter Kills is a 1979 darkly satirical political thriller film about a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of a U.S. president, noted for its star-studded cast and cult status.
B. The Mountain Shadow
The Mountain Shadow is a novel by Gregory David Roberts that continues the adventures of Lin, an Australian fugitive navigating the criminal underworld and spiritual quests in India, serving as the sequel to Shantaram.
C. Twilight in the Wilderness
"Twilight in the Wilderness" is a celebrated 1860 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic sunset sky and luminous depiction of the American wilderness.
D. City of Winters
The City of Winters is a small agricultural and wine-country community in Northern California known for its historic downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation areas.
E. The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary work ⓘ short story ⓘ
author	Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ
centralTheme	bureaucracy and indifference ⓘ exile and displacement ⓘ love and loss ⓘ tragedy ⓘ
collectionOriginalLanguage	Spanish ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Colombia ⓘ
EnglishCollectionTitle	Strange Pilgrims ⓘ
firstPublicationForm	short story collection ⓘ
genre	Latin American literature ⓘ fiction ⓘ magical realism ⓘ
hasAuthorNationality	Colombian ⓘ
hasEnglishTranslation	yes ⓘ
hasTitleInSpanish	The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve
includedInCollection	Strange Pilgrims ⓘ
literaryMovement	Boom of Latin American literature ⓘ
mainCharacters	Billy Sánchez ⓘ Nena Daconte ⓘ
motif	blood ⓘ bureaucratic obstacles ⓘ journey ⓘ snow ⓘ
narrativeFocus	young Colombian couple on honeymoon ⓘ
narrativePerspective	third-person narration ⓘ
originalLanguage	Spanish ⓘ
partOf	Strange Pilgrims ⓘ
plotElement	honeymoon trip to Europe ⓘ hospitalization of Nena Daconte ⓘ medical ordeal ending in death ⓘ minor injury leading to severe bleeding ⓘ
protagonistOrigin	Colombia ⓘ
publisherOfCollection	Editorial La Oveja Negra ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	Love in the Time of Cholera ⓘ One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ Strange Pilgrims ⓘ
settingLocation	Europe ⓘ
theme	clash between Latin American characters and European institutions ⓘ failure of medical and social systems ⓘ vulnerability of foreigners abroad ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting	20th century ⓘ
tone	melancholic ⓘ tragic ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Strange Pilgrims → hasPart → The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow ⓘ

Doce cuentos peregrinos → hasPart → The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow ⓘ

this entity surface form: El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve

The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow → hasTitleInSpanish → The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow self-linksurface differs ⓘ