The Human Stain
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The Human Stain is a 2000 novel by Philip Roth that explores identity, race, and scandal in late-20th-century America through the downfall of a classics professor with a hidden past.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Human Stain canonical | 12 |
| The Fixer | 1 |
| The Human Stain (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456972 — 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 Human Stain Context triple: [Philip Roth, notableWork, The Human Stain]
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A.
The Corrections
The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
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B.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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C.
The Hours
The Hours is a 2002 drama film, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that interweaves the lives of three women in different eras connected by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
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D.
A Mercy
"A Mercy" is a historical novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of slavery, motherhood, and identity in 17th-century America through the intertwined lives of several women.
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E.
The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a serialized novel by Stephen King that blends supernatural elements with a poignant death-row drama set in a 1930s Southern prison.
- 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 Human Stain Target entity description: The Human Stain is a 2000 novel by Philip Roth that explores identity, race, and scandal in late-20th-century America through the downfall of a classics professor with a hidden past.
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A.
The Corrections
The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
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B.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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C.
The Hours
The Hours is a 2002 drama film, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that interweaves the lives of three women in different eras connected by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
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D.
A Mercy
"A Mercy" is a historical novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of slavery, motherhood, and identity in 17th-century America through the intertwined lives of several women.
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E.
The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a serialized novel by Stephen King that blends supernatural elements with a poignant death-row drama set in a 1930s Southern prison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Human Stain Description of subject: The Human Stain is a 2000 novel by Philip Roth that explores identity, race, and scandal in late-20th-century America through the downfall of a classics professor with a hidden past.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Fixer
subject surface form:
Philip Roth
this entity surface form:
The Human Stain (film)