Roller Ball Murder
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"Roller Ball Murder" is a 1973 science fiction short story by William Harrison that imagines a violent, corporate-controlled future sport later adapted into the film "Rollerball."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roller Ball Murder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11318752 — 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: Roller Ball Murder Context triple: [William Harrison, notableWork, Roller Ball Murder]
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A.
The Murder Machine
The Murder Machine is an influential essay by Irish revolutionary Patrick Pearse that sharply criticizes the British-controlled education system in Ireland for stifling national identity and creativity.
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B.
Murder in the Gunroom
Murder in the Gunroom is a mystery novel by Henry Beam Piper, centered on the investigation of a suspicious death involving firearms and gun collecting.
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C.
A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
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D.
The Steel Trap
The Steel Trap is a 1952 American crime thriller film starring Joseph Cotten as a bank employee who devises a plan to steal money and flee the country.
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E.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
- 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: Roller Ball Murder Target entity description: "Roller Ball Murder" is a 1973 science fiction short story by William Harrison that imagines a violent, corporate-controlled future sport later adapted into the film "Rollerball."
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A.
The Murder Machine
The Murder Machine is an influential essay by Irish revolutionary Patrick Pearse that sharply criticizes the British-controlled education system in Ireland for stifling national identity and creativity.
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B.
Murder in the Gunroom
Murder in the Gunroom is a mystery novel by Henry Beam Piper, centered on the investigation of a suspicious death involving firearms and gun collecting.
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C.
A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
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D.
The Steel Trap
The Steel Trap is a 1952 American crime thriller film starring Joseph Cotten as a bank employee who devises a plan to steal money and flee the country.
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E.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction work
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short story ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| author | William Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
corporate power
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dehumanization ⓘ spectacle and mass entertainment ⓘ violence in sport ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
global corporations as governments
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violent future sport ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Esquire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Rollerball (1975 film)
NERFINISHED
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Rollerball (2002 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedWork | Rollerball franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSportDepicted | Rollerball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | professional Rollerball player ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| publisher | Esquire magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | corporate-controlled future ⓘ |
| workBasedOn | Rollerball (1975 film) screenplay 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: Roller Ball Murder Description of subject: "Roller Ball Murder" is a 1973 science fiction short story by William Harrison that imagines a violent, corporate-controlled future sport later adapted into the film "Rollerball."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.