A Modern Instance
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"A Modern Instance" is an 1882 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores the moral and social implications of divorce in late 19th-century American society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Modern Instance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T319649 — 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: A Modern Instance Context triple: [William Dean Howells, notableWork, A Modern Instance]
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A.
After the Fall
After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
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B.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale is a popular stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan, best known for its clean humor and iconic routines about food, laziness, and everyday life.
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C.
Caput Mundi
Caput Mundi is a Latin epithet meaning "capital of the world," historically used to emphasize Rome’s central importance in politics, culture, and civilization.
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D.
As He Saw It
"As He Saw It" is a memoir by Elliott Roosevelt that offers an insider’s account of his father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s views and experiences during World War II.
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E.
The Example
The Example is a 17th-century stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, reflecting the manners and social intrigues of Caroline-era London.
- 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: A Modern Instance Target entity description: "A Modern Instance" is an 1882 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores the moral and social implications of divorce in late 19th-century American society.
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A.
After the Fall
After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
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B.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale is a popular stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan, best known for its clean humor and iconic routines about food, laziness, and everyday life.
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C.
Caput Mundi
Caput Mundi is a Latin epithet meaning "capital of the world," historically used to emphasize Rome’s central importance in politics, culture, and civilization.
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D.
As He Saw It
"As He Saw It" is a memoir by Elliott Roosevelt that offers an insider’s account of his father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s views and experiences during World War II.
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E.
The Example
The Example is a 17th-century stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, reflecting the manners and social intrigues of Caroline-era London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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realist novel ⓘ |
| author | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
American middle-class life
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legal and social aspects of divorce ⓘ social norms surrounding marriage ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | book ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
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social novel ⓘ |
| hasCreator | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle | realism ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
family
ⓘ
marriage ⓘ morality in social relations ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
divorce
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late 19th-century American society ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ moral consequences of divorce ⓘ social implications of divorce ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | early realistic treatment of divorce in American literature ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| publicationYear | 1882 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: A Modern Instance Description of subject: "A Modern Instance" is an 1882 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores the moral and social implications of divorce in late 19th-century American society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.