One for the Road

E192811

horror fiction short story

"One for the Road" is a horror short story by Stephen King, often noted as a companion piece to his novel "’Salem’s Lot," involving a terrifying encounter with vampires during a snowstorm in rural Maine.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
One for the Road canonical	2
"One for the Road"	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	horror fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ
author	Stephen King ⓘ
centralConflict	rescue attempt during a blizzard in vampire-infested area ⓘ
companionTo	Salem's Lot ⓘ surface form: ’Salem’s Lot
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
featuresElement	snowstorm ⓘ vampires ⓘ
genre	horror ⓘ vampire fiction ⓘ
hasConnectionToFictionalLocation	Jerusalem's Lot ⓘ surface form: Jerusalem’s Lot
hasProtagonistGroup	local men in a rural bar ⓘ
hasSetting	near the town of Jerusalem’s Lot ⓘ
includedInCollection	Night Shift ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryStyle	suspense-driven horror prose ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person narration ⓘ
notableFor	expanding the mythology of ’Salem’s Lot ⓘ
originalPublication	Maine ⓘ
originalPublicationYear	1977 ⓘ
partOfFictionalUniverse	Salem's Lot ⓘ surface form: ’Salem’s Lot universe
publisherOfCollection	Doubleday ⓘ
relatedWork	Salem's Lot ⓘ surface form: ’Salem’s Lot
setIn	Maine ⓘ rural Maine ⓘ
theme	isolation ⓘ small-town terror ⓘ supernatural horror ⓘ survival ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting	20th century ⓘ

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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: One for the Road
Description of subject: "One for the Road" is a horror short story by Stephen King, often noted as a companion piece to his novel "’Salem’s Lot," involving a terrifying encounter with vampires during a snowstorm in rural Maine.

Referenced by (3)

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

Night Shift → hasShortStory → One for the Road ⓘ

Salem's Lot → hasSubsequentWork → One for the Road ⓘ

Jerusalem's Lot, Maine → appearsIn → One for the Road ⓘ

this entity surface form: "One for the Road"