The Piazza Tales
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The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories by American author Herman Melville, best known for including the classic novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Piazza Tales canonical | 10 |
| The Piazza Tales (some editions) | 1 |
| The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839–1860 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268994 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Piazza Tales Context triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, The Piazza Tales]
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A.
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- 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 Piazza Tales Target entity description: The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories by American author Herman Melville, best known for including the classic novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
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A.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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B.
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a historic collection of wooden stilt houses built over the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida.
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C.
Children of the Alley
Children of the Alley is a controversial novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that allegorically retells religious and social history through the lives of successive generations in a Cairo alley.
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D.
The Tale
The Tale is a 2018 autobiographical drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox, in which she reexamines a sexual relationship from her youth to confront the nature of memory and abuse.
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E.
The City of Homes
The City of Homes is a nickname for Springfield, Massachusetts, highlighting its historic residential architecture and notable stock of well-preserved houses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| authorOfContainedWork | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Bartleby, the Scrivener
ⓘ
Benito Cereno ⓘ The Bell-Tower ⓘ The Encantadas ⓘ The Lightning-Rod Man ⓘ The Piazza ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstEditionLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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short stories ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | no ⓘ |
| hasPart | short story ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| notableFor | including the novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener" ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMediaType | print ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1856 ⓘ |
| publisher | Dix, Edwards & Co. ⓘ |
| subject |
human behavior
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isolation ⓘ morality ⓘ power and authority ⓘ |
| title | The Piazza Tales ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Piazza Tales Description of subject: The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories by American author Herman Melville, best known for including the classic novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Piazza Tales
linked to: The Piazza Tales