The Cruel Mother
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"The Cruel Mother" is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad that tells a dark story of infanticide and supernatural remorse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cruel Mother canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20875627 — 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 Cruel Mother Context triple: [A Maid of Constant Sorrow, hasTrack, The Cruel Mother]
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A.
The Dead Mother
The Dead Mother is a painting by Edvard Munch that hauntingly depicts a child standing before her deceased mother, exploring themes of grief, loss, and psychological trauma.
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B.
The Guilty Mother
The Guilty Mother is the final play in Pierre Beaumarchais’s Figaro trilogy, a French drama that continues the story of Figaro and the Almaviva household with darker, more serious themes.
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C.
The Good Mother
The Good Mother is a 1988 American drama film starring Diane Keaton as a divorced woman whose custody of her daughter is threatened amid accusations about her new relationship.
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D.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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E.
I Killed My Mother
I Killed My Mother is a semi-autobiographical 2009 Canadian drama film written, directed by, and starring Xavier Dolan, exploring a turbulent mother-son relationship.
- 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 Cruel Mother Target entity description: "The Cruel Mother" is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad that tells a dark story of infanticide and supernatural remorse.
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A.
The Dead Mother
The Dead Mother is a painting by Edvard Munch that hauntingly depicts a child standing before her deceased mother, exploring themes of grief, loss, and psychological trauma.
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B.
The Guilty Mother
The Guilty Mother is the final play in Pierre Beaumarchais’s Figaro trilogy, a French drama that continues the story of Figaro and the Almaviva household with darker, more serious themes.
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C.
The Good Mother
The Good Mother is a 1988 American drama film starring Diane Keaton as a divorced woman whose custody of her daughter is threatened amid accusations about her new relationship.
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D.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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E.
I Killed My Mother
I Killed My Mother is a semi-autobiographical 2009 Canadian drama film written, directed by, and starring Xavier Dolan, exploring a turbulent mother-son relationship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "A Maid of Constant Sorrow"