The Present Time
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"The Present Time" is one of Thomas Carlyle’s polemical essays in his 1850 collection *Latter-Day Pamphlets*, critiquing the social and political conditions of his contemporary Victorian era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Present Time canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7243966 — 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 Present Time Context triple: [Latter-Day Pamphlets, hasPart, The Present Time]
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A.
The Past, the Present, the Future
"The Past, the Present, the Future" is a compilation album by American R&B group Jodeci that collects many of their most popular tracks and signature slow jams.
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B.
Now Is the Time
"Now Is the Time" is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released in 1992 and showcasing her early dance-pop style prior to her international breakthrough with "Jagged Little Pill."
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C.
From Time to Time
From Time to Time is a 2009 British fantasy drama film written and directed by Julian Fellowes, blending a World War II–era family mystery with time-travel elements in an English country house.
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D.
The Time is at Hand
"The Time is at Hand" is a volume in Charles Taze Russell’s *Studies in the Scriptures* series that focuses on biblical chronology and end-times prophecy.
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E.
In Our Time
In Our Time is a 1925 short story collection by Ernest Hemingway that helped establish his distinctive minimalist style and major themes of war, loss, and disillusionment.
- 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 Present Time Target entity description: "The Present Time" is one of Thomas Carlyle’s polemical essays in his 1850 collection *Latter-Day Pamphlets*, critiquing the social and political conditions of his contemporary Victorian era.
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A.
The Past, the Present, the Future
"The Past, the Present, the Future" is a compilation album by American R&B group Jodeci that collects many of their most popular tracks and signature slow jams.
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B.
Now Is the Time
"Now Is the Time" is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released in 1992 and showcasing her early dance-pop style prior to her international breakthrough with "Jagged Little Pill."
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C.
From Time to Time
From Time to Time is a 2009 British fantasy drama film written and directed by Julian Fellowes, blending a World War II–era family mystery with time-travel elements in an English country house.
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D.
The Time is at Hand
"The Time is at Hand" is a volume in Charles Taze Russell’s *Studies in the Scriptures* series that focuses on biblical chronology and end-times prophecy.
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E.
In Our Time
In Our Time is a 1925 short story collection by Ernest Hemingway that helped establish his distinctive minimalist style and major themes of war, loss, and disillusionment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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literary work ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | Victorian social criticism ⓘ |
| author |
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle ⓘ |
| collectionEditor | Thomas Carlyle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Victorian politics
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Victorian society ⓘ democratic tendencies as seen by Carlyle ⓘ materialism ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | pamphlet ⓘ |
| genre |
polemical essay
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political criticism ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Present Time ⓘ |
| historicalContext | mid-19th-century Britain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of contemporary political conditions
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critique of contemporary social conditions ⓘ moral and spiritual decline ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| partOf | Latter-Day Pamphlets ⓘ |
| publicationYear |
1850
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1850 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Past and Present
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Sartor Resartus ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism on Carlyle’s political thought ⓘ |
| workInCollectionNumber | one of the essays in Latter-Day Pamphlets ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Present Time Description of subject: "The Present Time" is one of Thomas Carlyle’s polemical essays in his 1850 collection *Latter-Day Pamphlets*, critiquing the social and political conditions of his contemporary Victorian era.
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