The Parish Boy’s Progress
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The Parish Boy’s Progress is a classic 1838 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the hardships and adventures of an orphan named Oliver in the grim underworld of Victorian London.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Parish Boy’s Progress canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14848158 — 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 Parish Boy’s Progress Context triple: [Oliver Twist, alsoKnownAs, The Parish Boy’s Progress]
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A.
The Parson
The Parson is a devout, morally upright clergyman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, portrayed as a sincere and humble contrast to the more corrupt religious figures among the pilgrims.
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B.
The Pilgrim’s Progress
The Pilgrim’s Progress is an opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, adapted from John Bunyan’s classic Christian allegory of the same name.
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Port-Royal Grammar
Port-Royal Grammar is a 17th-century rationalist treatise on universal grammar that sought to explain the underlying logical structure common to all human languages.
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D.
The Reverend Mr. Black
"The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
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E.
Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life is a collection of three interlinked short stories by George Eliot that portray the moral and social lives of rural English clergymen and their communities.
- 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 Parish Boy’s Progress Target entity description: The Parish Boy’s Progress is a classic 1838 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the hardships and adventures of an orphan named Oliver in the grim underworld of Victorian London.
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A.
The Parson
The Parson is a devout, morally upright clergyman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, portrayed as a sincere and humble contrast to the more corrupt religious figures among the pilgrims.
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B.
The Pilgrim’s Progress
The Pilgrim’s Progress is an opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, adapted from John Bunyan’s classic Christian allegory of the same name.
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C.
Port-Royal Grammar
Port-Royal Grammar is a 17th-century rationalist treatise on universal grammar that sought to explain the underlying logical structure common to all human languages.
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D.
The Reverend Mr. Black
"The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
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E.
Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life is a collection of three interlinked short stories by George Eliot that portray the moral and social lives of rural English clergymen and their communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.