The Crossing
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The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Crossing canonical | 6 |
| The Crossing (in internal chronology of Border Trilogy events) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902796 — 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 Crossing Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, The Crossing]
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A.
De Oversteek
De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
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B.
Crossing the Water
"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.
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C.
Door to the River
Door to the River is a 1960 abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning, noted for its gestural brushwork and luminous, landscape-evoking color fields.
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D.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
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E.
The River of Dreams
"The River of Dreams" is a 1993 pop song by Billy Joel, known for its gospel-influenced sound and introspective, dreamlike lyrics, and serving as the title track of his final studio rock album.
- 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 Crossing Target entity description: The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
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A.
De Oversteek
De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
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B.
Crossing the Water
"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.
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C.
Door to the River
Door to the River is a 1960 abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning, noted for its gestural brushwork and luminous, landscape-evoking color fields.
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D.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
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E.
The River of Dreams
"The River of Dreams" is a 1993 pop song by Billy Joel, known for its gospel-influenced sound and introspective, dreamlike lyrics, and serving as the title track of his final studio rock album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | Cities of the Plain ⓘ |
| genre |
Western novel
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Boyd Parham
ⓘ
the wolf ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole | Billy Parham as central protagonist ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Chip Kidd ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780394574752 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
descriptive landscape imagery
ⓘ
philosophical dialogues ⓘ sparse punctuation style ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 425 pages ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | cowboy ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
lyrical prose
ⓘ
minimalist dialogue punctuation ⓘ |
| hasTemporalSetting | early 1940s ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
borderlands and liminality
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ fate and destiny ⓘ human relationship with nature ⓘ loss ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
| includedIn | contemporary American literature canon ⓘ |
| isFollowUpTo | All the Pretty Horses in thematic concerns ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Billy Parham ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Border Trilogy ⓘ |
| precededBy | All the Pretty Horses ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| seriesPosition | second book in The Border Trilogy ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: The Crossing Description of subject: The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Crossing (in internal chronology of Border Trilogy events)
subject surface form:
Cormac McCarthy