The Stone Angel
E452007
The Stone Angel is a classic Canadian novel by Margaret Laurence that follows the fierce, aging Hagar Shipley as she confronts her past and struggles with pride, memory, and mortality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Stone Angel canonical | 5 |
| The Stone Angel (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4545529 — 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 Stone Angel Context triple: [Canadian literature canon, includesWork, The Stone Angel]
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A.
The Edible Woman
The Edible Woman is Margaret Atwood’s debut novel, a darkly comic feminist work that explores identity, consumerism, and the pressures of gender roles through a young woman’s psychological unraveling.
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B.
The Painted Angel
The Painted Angel is a 1929 silent drama film starring popular 1920s screen actress Billie Dove.
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C.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize–winning novel by Margaret Atwood that blends family saga, mystery, and metafiction through a story-within-a-story structure.
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D.
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Odour of Chrysanthemums is a short story by D. H. Lawrence that explores themes of marital alienation, industrial hardship, and emotional awakening in an English mining community.
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E.
La Doyenne
La Doyenne is the traditional nickname of Liège–Bastogne–Liège, one of cycling’s oldest and most prestigious one-day Classics.
- 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 Stone Angel Target entity description: The Stone Angel is a classic Canadian novel by Margaret Laurence that follows the fierce, aging Hagar Shipley as she confronts her past and struggles with pride, memory, and mortality.
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A.
The Edible Woman
The Edible Woman is Margaret Atwood’s debut novel, a darkly comic feminist work that explores identity, consumerism, and the pressures of gender roles through a young woman’s psychological unraveling.
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B.
The Painted Angel
The Painted Angel is a 1929 silent drama film starring popular 1920s screen actress Billie Dove.
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C.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize–winning novel by Margaret Atwood that blends family saga, mystery, and metafiction through a story-within-a-story structure.
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D.
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Odour of Chrysanthemums is a short story by D. H. Lawrence that explores themes of marital alienation, industrial hardship, and emotional awakening in an English mining community.
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E.
La Doyenne
La Doyenne is the traditional nickname of Liège–Bastogne–Liège, one of cycling’s oldest and most prestigious one-day Classics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian novel
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Stone Angel (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Stone Angel
|
| author | Margaret Laurence ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
Hagar Shipley’s struggle with her own pride
ⓘ
reconciliation with past choices ⓘ |
| character | Hagar Shipley ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstPublication | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| explores |
class and social status in small-town Canada
ⓘ
gender roles in early 20th-century Canada ⓘ |
| fictionalTownBasedOn |
Neepawa, Manitoba
ⓘ
linked to:
Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
|
| filmAdaptationCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
intergenerational family conflict
ⓘ
the experience of old age ⓘ |
| genre |
Canadian literature
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ realist novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Bram Shipley
ⓘ
Doris Shipley ⓘ Jason Currie ⓘ John Shipley ⓘ Marvin Shipley ⓘ |
| hasFoilCharacter | Marvin Shipley ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | stone angel statue ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Canadian modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered a classic of Canadian literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hagar Shipley ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear ⓘ |
| partOf | Manawaka cycle ⓘ |
| protagonist | Hagar Shipley ⓘ |
| publisher |
McClelland & Stewart
ⓘ
linked to:
McClelland and Stewart
|
| setting | Manawaka ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Canadian high school curricula
ⓘ
university literature courses ⓘ |
| symbolism | stone angel statue as symbol of pride and emotional repression ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ identity ⓘ independence ⓘ memory ⓘ mortality ⓘ pride ⓘ regret ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Stone Angel Description of subject: The Stone Angel is a classic Canadian novel by Margaret Laurence that follows the fierce, aging Hagar Shipley as she confronts her past and struggles with pride, memory, and mortality.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Stone Angel