Cities of the Red Night
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Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cities of the Red Night canonical | 3 |
| The Red Night Trilogy | 2 |
| Cities of the Red Night trilogy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894264 — 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: Cities of the Red Night Context triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Cities of the Red Night]
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A.
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.
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B.
Red Corridor
The Red Corridor is a region in eastern and central India characterized by significant Maoist (Naxalite) insurgent activity and ongoing left-wing extremist conflict.
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C.
City of Souls
City of Souls is the somber nickname for Colma, California, a small town famous for its vast cemeteries and far larger population of the dead than the living.
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D.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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E.
Four Darks in Red
Four Darks in Red is a 1958 abstract expressionist painting by Mark Rothko, characterized by large, somber rectangular fields of dark color that evoke a meditative, emotional atmosphere.
- 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: Cities of the Red Night Target entity description: Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
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A.
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.
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B.
Red Corridor
The Red Corridor is a region in eastern and central India characterized by significant Maoist (Naxalite) insurgent activity and ongoing left-wing extremist conflict.
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C.
City of Souls
City of Souls is the somber nickname for Colma, California, a small town famous for its vast cemeteries and far larger population of the dead than the living.
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D.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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E.
Four Darks in Red
Four Darks in Red is a 1958 abstract expressionist painting by Mark Rothko, characterized by large, somber rectangular fields of dark color that evoke a meditative, emotional atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter |
Captain Mission
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Noah Blake ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Place of Dead Roads
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The Western Lands ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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experimental fiction ⓘ fantasy ⓘ occult fiction ⓘ pirate fiction ⓘ postmodern novel ⓘ science fiction ⓘ surreal fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
hallucinatory visions
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pirate utopia ⓘ plague ⓘ ritual magic ⓘ secret societies ⓘ time travel-like shifts ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alternative histories
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anarchism ⓘ control ⓘ disease ⓘ dystopia ⓘ magic and ritual ⓘ occultism ⓘ piracy ⓘ revolution ⓘ sexual liberation ⓘ utopian communities ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Beat Generation aesthetics
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cut-up technique tradition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
experimental
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nonlinear ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
metafictional elements
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multiple viewpoints ⓘ shifting timelines ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cities of the Red Night
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cities of the Red Night trilogy
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| publicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston ⓘ |
| setting |
18th-century pirate world
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alternate historical timelines ⓘ futuristic dystopian environments ⓘ |
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Referenced by (6)
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this entity surface form:
Cities of the Red Night trilogy
this entity surface form:
The Red Night Trilogy
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The Red Night Trilogy