"The Dead Wife"
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"The Dead Wife" is a traditional folk tale, included in Andrew Lang’s The Crimson Fairy Book, that centers on a woman who returns from death out of enduring love and loyalty to her husband.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "The Dead Wife" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20184142 — 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 Dead Wife" Context triple: [The Crimson Fairy Book, hasStory, "The Dead Wife"]
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A.
The Wives of the Dead
"The Wives of the Dead" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends melancholy, ambiguity, and the supernatural as it follows two women who receive conflicting news about their supposedly deceased husbands.
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B.
I Married a Dead Man
"I Married a Dead Man" is a noir suspense novel by Cornell Woolrich about a pregnant woman who assumes another woman's identity after a train accident, leading to a tense web of deception and danger.
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C.
The Widow
The Widow is a tragic female character in Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "Zorba the Greek," whose relationship with the narrator and subsequent fate highlight the clash between individual desire and oppressive social norms in a Cretan village.
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D.
The Widow
"The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
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E.
The Widow
The Widow is a British television drama-thriller series starring Kate Beckinsale as a woman who travels to the Congo after discovering clues that suggest her presumed-dead husband may still be alive.
- 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 Dead Wife" Target entity description: "The Dead Wife" is a traditional folk tale, included in Andrew Lang’s The Crimson Fairy Book, that centers on a woman who returns from death out of enduring love and loyalty to her husband.
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A.
The Wives of the Dead
"The Wives of the Dead" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends melancholy, ambiguity, and the supernatural as it follows two women who receive conflicting news about their supposedly deceased husbands.
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B.
I Married a Dead Man
"I Married a Dead Man" is a noir suspense novel by Cornell Woolrich about a pregnant woman who assumes another woman's identity after a train accident, leading to a tense web of deception and danger.
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C.
The Widow
The Widow is a tragic female character in Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "Zorba the Greek," whose relationship with the narrator and subsequent fate highlight the clash between individual desire and oppressive social norms in a Cretan village.
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D.
The Widow
"The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
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E.
The Widow
The Widow is a British television drama-thriller series starring Kate Beckinsale as a woman who travels to the Congo after discovering clues that suggest her presumed-dead husband may still be alive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.