The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain that follows the mischievous exploits of a boy growing up along the Mississippi River, capturing American small-town life with humor and satire.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T29388 — 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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer Context triple: [Mark Twain, notableWork, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]
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Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by Washington Irving that tells the eerie tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the legendary Headless Horseman in a haunted New York valley.
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C.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
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Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments are a foundational set of biblical moral principles that outline core duties toward God and other people in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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E.
Roosevelt’s Tree Army
Roosevelt’s Tree Army was the popular nickname for the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, a work-relief program that employed young men in large-scale conservation and public lands projects across the United States during the Great Depression.
- 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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer Target entity description: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain that follows the mischievous exploits of a boy growing up along the Mississippi River, capturing American small-town life with humor and satire.
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A.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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B.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by Washington Irving that tells the eerie tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the legendary Headless Horseman in a haunted New York valley.
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C.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
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D.
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments are a foundational set of biblical moral principles that outline core duties toward God and other people in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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E.
Roosevelt’s Tree Army
Roosevelt’s Tree Army was the popular nickname for the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, a work-relief program that employed young men in large-scale conservation and public lands projects across the United States during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American literature
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
animated film
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film ⓘ stage play ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| antagonist | Injun Joe ⓘ |
| author | Mark Twain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
children's novel ⓘ coming-of-age novel ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Aunt Polly
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Becky Thatcher ⓘ Huckleberry Finn ⓘ Injun Joe ⓘ Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Mark Twain's boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | classic of American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Aunt Polly
ⓘ
Becky Thatcher ⓘ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ
surface form:
Huckleberry Finn
Joe Harper ⓘ Sid Sawyer ⓘ Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableEpisode |
Tom and Becky lost in the cave
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Tom and Huck witnessing a murder in the graveyard ⓘ whitewashing the fence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonist | Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1876 ⓘ |
| publisher | American Publishing Company ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Mississippi River
ⓘ
St. Petersburg, Missouri (fictional town) ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general audience
ⓘ
young readers ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood and growing up
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freedom and adventure ⓘ moral development ⓘ social conventions and hypocrisy ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | pre-Civil War America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Description of subject: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain that follows the mischievous exploits of a boy growing up along the Mississippi River, capturing American small-town life with humor and satire.
Referenced by (85)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hannibal, Missouri
this entity surface form:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (novel)
subject surface form:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
subject surface form:
St. Petersburg, Missouri
subject surface form:
St. Petersburg, Missouri
subject surface form:
St. Petersburg, Missouri
this entity surface form:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876 novel)
this entity surface form:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
this entity surface form:
Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
this entity surface form:
1876 (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
subject surface form:
Aunt Polly
subject surface form:
Hannibal, Missouri
this entity surface form:
promotes reading of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer