Adultery (short story)
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"Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adultery | 1 |
| Adultery (short story) canonical | 1 |
| Adultery and Other Choices | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3671570 — 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: Adultery (short story) Context triple: [We Don't Live Here Anymore, basedOn, Adultery (short story)]
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A.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a seminal early 20th-century artwork by Marcel Duchamp, often called "The Large Glass," that radically challenged traditional notions of painting and sculpture through its use of glass, chance operations, and conceptual complexity.
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B.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores guilt, jealousy, and obsession through the tense relationship between a widower and his late wife's former lover.
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C.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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D.
The Proposal
The Proposal is a 2009 romantic comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds about a demanding book editor who forces her assistant into a fake engagement to avoid deportation.
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E.
A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.
- 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: Adultery (short story) Target entity description: "Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
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A.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a seminal early 20th-century artwork by Marcel Duchamp, often called "The Large Glass," that radically challenged traditional notions of painting and sculpture through its use of glass, chance operations, and conceptual complexity.
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B.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores guilt, jealousy, and obsession through the tense relationship between a widower and his late wife's former lover.
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C.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
-
D.
The Proposal
The Proposal is a 2009 romantic comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds about a demanding book editor who forces her assistant into a fake engagement to avoid deportation.
-
E.
A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Andre Dubus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Andre Dubus ⓘ |
| depicts | extramarital affair ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
inner lives of characters
ⓘ
psychological realism ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | short narrative ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
adultery
ⓘ
conscience ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ moral choice ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Adultery (short story)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Adultery
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
betrayal
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emotional complexity in relationships ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ guilt ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ marriage ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Andre Dubus ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Adultery (short story) Description of subject: "Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Adultery
this entity surface form:
Adultery and Other Choices