The Corpse Walker
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The Corpse Walker is a nonfiction book by Chinese writer Liao Yiwu that presents oral histories of ordinary people whose lives were upended by political campaigns and social upheavals in modern China.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Corpse Walker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16037656 — 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 Corpse Walker Context triple: [Liao Yiwu, notableWork, The Corpse Walker]
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Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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B.
The Corpse
The Corpse is a Hellboy short story by Mike Mignola that blends Irish folklore with dark humor as Hellboy attempts to bury a restless corpse to fulfill a supernatural bargain.
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C.
What Moves the Dead
What Moves the Dead is a gothic horror novella by T. Kingfisher that reimagines Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” with a focus on body horror, fungal corruption, and creeping dread.
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D.
The Yawning Grave
"The Yawning Grave" is a haunting, atmospheric folk-rock song by Lord Huron known for its ghostly narrative and cinematic, Western-tinged sound.
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E.
Among the Dead
"Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
- 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 Corpse Walker Target entity description: The Corpse Walker is a nonfiction book by Chinese writer Liao Yiwu that presents oral histories of ordinary people whose lives were upended by political campaigns and social upheavals in modern China.
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A.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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B.
The Corpse
The Corpse is a Hellboy short story by Mike Mignola that blends Irish folklore with dark humor as Hellboy attempts to bury a restless corpse to fulfill a supernatural bargain.
-
C.
What Moves the Dead
What Moves the Dead is a gothic horror novella by T. Kingfisher that reimagines Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” with a focus on body horror, fungal corruption, and creeping dread.
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D.
The Yawning Grave
"The Yawning Grave" is a haunting, atmospheric folk-rock song by Lord Huron known for its ghostly narrative and cinematic, Western-tinged sound.
-
E.
Among the Dead
"Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
- F. None of above. chosen
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