The Iron Heel
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The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by Jack London that portrays a future totalitarian oligarchy crushing a socialist movement in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Iron Heel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7301826 — 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 Iron Heel Context triple: [John Griffith Chaney, notableWork, The Iron Heel]
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A.
The Revolutionist
"The Revolutionist" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, included in his collection *In Our Time*, that portrays a young political idealist in postwar Europe.
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B.
The Inevitable Revolution
The Inevitable Revolution is a political work by Lebanese Druze leader and thinker Kamal Jumblatt that outlines his revolutionary, socialist, and humanist vision for transforming Arab and Lebanese society.
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C.
The Shame of the Cities
The Shame of the Cities is a landmark 1904 muckraking book that exposed widespread political corruption in major American urban governments during the Progressive Era.
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D.
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
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E.
Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class is a darkly comic, psychologically intense stage play by Sam Shepard that explores the disintegration of a dysfunctional American family struggling with poverty, identity, and the elusive promise of the American Dream.
- 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 Iron Heel Target entity description: The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by Jack London that portrays a future totalitarian oligarchy crushing a socialist movement in the United States.
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A.
The Revolutionist
"The Revolutionist" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, included in his collection *In Our Time*, that portrays a young political idealist in postwar Europe.
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B.
The Inevitable Revolution
The Inevitable Revolution is a political work by Lebanese Druze leader and thinker Kamal Jumblatt that outlines his revolutionary, socialist, and humanist vision for transforming Arab and Lebanese society.
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C.
The Shame of the Cities
The Shame of the Cities is a landmark 1904 muckraking book that exposed widespread political corruption in major American urban governments during the Progressive Era.
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D.
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
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E.
Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class is a darkly comic, psychologically intense stage play by Sam Shepard that explores the disintegration of a dysfunctional American family struggling with poverty, identity, and the elusive promise of the American Dream.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Jack London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains | footnotes by future historian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
future totalitarian oligarchy
ⓘ
suppression of socialist movement ⓘ |
| describes | Oligarchy called the Iron Heel ⓘ |
| explores |
corporate power
ⓘ
labor movement ⓘ revolutionary organization ⓘ state repression ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | serial ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Appeal to Reason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
ⓘ
political fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ socialist literature ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | serialized novel ⓘ |
| hasImaginedFuturePeriod | 27th century historian perspective ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | about 400 ⓘ |
| hasSettingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Iron Heel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | dystopian literature ⓘ |
| isFollowedBy | Martin Eden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | socialist realism precursor ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | early example of modern dystopia ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Avis Everhard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ernest Everhard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | framed manuscript ⓘ |
| narrator | Avis Everhard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposes | capitalist oligarchy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| politicalTheme |
class struggle
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fascism precursor ⓘ revolution ⓘ rise of oligarchy ⓘ socialism ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1908 ⓘ |
| publisher | Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| structure | fictional historical commentary ⓘ |
| supports | socialist revolution ⓘ |
| timeOfNarrative | early 20th century future ⓘ |
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Subject: The Iron Heel Description of subject: The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by Jack London that portrays a future totalitarian oligarchy crushing a socialist movement in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
John Griffith Chaney