Mantissa
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Mantissa is a postmodern novel by John Fowles that playfully explores themes of creativity, authorship, and the relationship between writer and muse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mantissa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13561295 — 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: Mantissa Context triple: [John Fowles, notableWork, Mantissa]
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A.
De Cifris
De Cifris is a 15th-century treatise by Leon Battista Alberti that lays foundational principles of cryptography, including the introduction of polyalphabetic substitution.
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B.
Mant
Mant is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, falling under the Mathura Lok Sabha parliamentary seat.
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C.
Mandisha
Mandisha is a village located within Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert.
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D.
Minitari
Minitari is another name for the Hidatsa, a Native American people historically living along the upper Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
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Mitanni
Mitanni was a powerful Hurrian-speaking kingdom of the Late Bronze Age in northern Mesopotamia and Syria, known for its chariotry, diplomacy, and rivalry with contemporary great powers such as Egypt and the Hittites.
- 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: Mantissa Target entity description: Mantissa is a postmodern novel by John Fowles that playfully explores themes of creativity, authorship, and the relationship between writer and muse.
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A.
De Cifris
De Cifris is a 15th-century treatise by Leon Battista Alberti that lays foundational principles of cryptography, including the introduction of polyalphabetic substitution.
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B.
Mant
Mant is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, falling under the Mathura Lok Sabha parliamentary seat.
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C.
Mandisha
Mandisha is a village located within Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert.
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D.
Minitari
Minitari is another name for the Hidatsa, a Native American people historically living along the upper Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
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E.
Mitanni
Mitanni was a powerful Hurrian-speaking kingdom of the Late Bronze Age in northern Mesopotamia and Syria, known for its chariotry, diplomacy, and rivalry with contemporary great powers such as Egypt and the Hittites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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postmodern novel ⓘ |
| author | John Fowles ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Erato is a muse figure
ⓘ
linked to:
Erato
Miles Green is a writer ⓘ
linked to:
Miles Green
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
boundaries between fiction and reality
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construction of literary characters ⓘ role of the author in meaning‑making ⓘ sexuality as part of artistic inspiration ⓘ |
| followedBy | A Maggot ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780224020469 ⓘ |
| hasPart | extended dialogues between writer and muse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
breaking the fourth wall
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intertextuality ⓘ self‑referential narration ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Erato
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Miles Green ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
experimental
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playful ⓘ |
| notableFor |
highly self‑conscious narrative form
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minimal cast of characters ⓘ philosophical dialogue about art and writing ⓘ |
| pageCount | around 200 pages ⓘ |
| partOf | John Fowles bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy | Daniel Martin ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| setting | hospital room ⓘ |
| structure | dialogue‑driven ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
authorship
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creativity ⓘ metafictional self‑reflection ⓘ nature of artistic inspiration ⓘ power dynamics between author and character ⓘ relationship between writer and muse ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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ironic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
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Instruction
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