The Widow’s Breakfast
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The Widow’s Breakfast is a short story by Joe Hill, included in his horror and dark fantasy collection "20th Century Ghosts."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Widow’s Breakfast canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319385 — 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 Widow’s Breakfast Context triple: [20th Century Ghosts, containsWork, The Widow’s Breakfast]
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A.
The Wife’s Tale
"The Wife’s Tale" is a narrative poem by Seamus Heaney that portrays a farm wife’s perspective on rural labor, gender roles, and quiet marital estrangement in the Irish countryside.
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B.
The Widow and Her Son
"The Widow and Her Son" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that portrays the quiet dignity and sorrow of a poor widow devoted to her only child.
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C.
The Pregnant Widow
The Pregnant Widow is a darkly comic novel by Martin Amis that explores sexual politics, aging, and the aftermath of the 1960s sexual revolution through a group of friends on an Italian holiday.
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D.
A Letter to Five Wives
A Letter to Five Wives is the original source work that inspired the classic 1949 film "A Letter to Three Wives."
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E.
The Widow
The Widow is a British television drama-thriller series starring Kate Beckinsale as a woman who travels to the Congo after discovering clues that suggest her presumed-dead husband may still be alive.
- 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 Widow’s Breakfast Target entity description: The Widow’s Breakfast is a short story by Joe Hill, included in his horror and dark fantasy collection "20th Century Ghosts."
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A.
The Wife’s Tale
"The Wife’s Tale" is a narrative poem by Seamus Heaney that portrays a farm wife’s perspective on rural labor, gender roles, and quiet marital estrangement in the Irish countryside.
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B.
The Widow and Her Son
"The Widow and Her Son" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that portrays the quiet dignity and sorrow of a poor widow devoted to her only child.
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C.
The Pregnant Widow
The Pregnant Widow is a darkly comic novel by Martin Amis that explores sexual politics, aging, and the aftermath of the 1960s sexual revolution through a group of friends on an Italian holiday.
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D.
A Letter to Five Wives
A Letter to Five Wives is the original source work that inspired the classic 1949 film "A Letter to Three Wives."
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E.
The Widow
The Widow is a British television drama-thriller series starring Kate Beckinsale as a woman who travels to the Congo after discovering clues that suggest her presumed-dead husband may still be alive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| authorLegalName | Joseph Hillström King ⓘ |
| authorPseudonymOf | Stephen King’s son ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| collectionCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| collectionGenre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ |
| collectionLanguage | English ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationTitle | 20th Century Ghosts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | fictional narrative ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | 20th Century Ghosts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration (typical for Joe Hill’s short fiction, exact POV may vary) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfGenreTradition |
contemporary dark fantasy literature
ⓘ
contemporary horror literature ⓘ |
| publicationType | fiction ⓘ |
| workTitle | The Widow’s Breakfast ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Widow’s Breakfast Description of subject: The Widow’s Breakfast is a short story by Joe Hill, included in his horror and dark fantasy collection "20th Century Ghosts."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.