The Stray Sod Country
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The Stray Sod Country is a darkly comic, psychologically charged novel by Irish writer Patrick McCabe that explores small-town life, memory, and madness in rural Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Stray Sod Country canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10916414 — 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 Stray Sod Country Context triple: [Patrick McCabe, notableWork, The Stray Sod Country]
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A.
Strayed Sheep
Strayed Sheep is a famous 1852 oil painting by William Holman Hunt depicting sheep grazing perilously close to a cliff edge, often interpreted as an allegory of spiritual neglect.
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B.
Restless on the Farm
Restless on the Farm is an acclaimed solo album by American dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas, showcasing his innovative blend of bluegrass, country, and progressive acoustic music.
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C.
Wildside
"Wildside" is a hip hop song by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch that reworks Lou Reed’s "Walk on the Wild Side" into a socially conscious early-1990s rap track.
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D.
Wildside
Wildside is an Italian television and film production company known for creating high-profile international series and auteur-driven projects.
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E.
Wildside
Wildside is a notable work created by Michael Jenkins, recognized for showcasing his distinctive storytelling and creative style.
- 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 Stray Sod Country Target entity description: The Stray Sod Country is a darkly comic, psychologically charged novel by Irish writer Patrick McCabe that explores small-town life, memory, and madness in rural Ireland.
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A.
Strayed Sheep
Strayed Sheep is a famous 1852 oil painting by William Holman Hunt depicting sheep grazing perilously close to a cliff edge, often interpreted as an allegory of spiritual neglect.
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B.
Restless on the Farm
Restless on the Farm is an acclaimed solo album by American dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas, showcasing his innovative blend of bluegrass, country, and progressive acoustic music.
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C.
Wildside
"Wildside" is a hip hop song by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch that reworks Lou Reed’s "Walk on the Wild Side" into a socially conscious early-1990s rap track.
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D.
Wildside
Wildside is an Italian television and film production company known for creating high-profile international series and auteur-driven projects.
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E.
Wildside
Wildside is a notable work created by Michael Jenkins, recognized for showcasing his distinctive storytelling and creative style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Patrick McCabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
Irish fiction
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dark comedy ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
experimental narrative
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nonlinear storytelling ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
collective guilt
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identity ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ religion in Irish society ⓘ repression ⓘ social change in rural communities ⓘ unreliable memory ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTone |
darkly comic
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psychologically charged ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary Irish literature ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
madness
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memory ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| setting | rural Ireland ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| writtenBy |
Irish writer
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Patrick McCabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Stray Sod Country Description of subject: The Stray Sod Country is a darkly comic, psychologically charged novel by Irish writer Patrick McCabe that explores small-town life, memory, and madness in rural Ireland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.