Waverley Novels corpus
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The Waverley Novels corpus is the collective body of historical novels by Sir Walter Scott that helped establish the genre and shaped 19th-century historical fiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waverley Novels corpus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8767604 — 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: Waverley Novels corpus Context triple: [Tales of My Landlord, partOf, Waverley Novels corpus]
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A.
Robert Fergusson's Scots poems corpus
Robert Fergusson's Scots poems corpus is a collection of 18th-century Scots-language verse by the Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, noted for its vivid depictions of Scottish urban and rural life.
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B.
The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
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C.
Scottish Book
The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Three Estates of Scotland
The Three Estates of Scotland were the pre-Union Scottish parliament’s representative bodies of clergy, nobility, and burgh commissioners that together formed the kingdom’s central legislative assembly.
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E.
Waverley
Waverley is a local government district and borough in Surrey, England, known for its market towns, rural landscapes, and part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
- 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: Waverley Novels corpus Target entity description: The Waverley Novels corpus is the collective body of historical novels by Sir Walter Scott that helped establish the genre and shaped 19th-century historical fiction.
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A.
Robert Fergusson's Scots poems corpus
Robert Fergusson's Scots poems corpus is a collection of 18th-century Scots-language verse by the Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, noted for its vivid depictions of Scottish urban and rural life.
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B.
The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
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C.
Scottish Book
The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Three Estates of Scotland
The Three Estates of Scotland were the pre-Union Scottish parliament’s representative bodies of clergy, nobility, and burgh commissioners that together formed the kingdom’s central legislative assembly.
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E.
Waverley
Waverley is a local government district and borough in Surrey, England, known for its market towns, rural landscapes, and part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical fiction corpus
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literary work collection ⓘ novel series ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Waverley Novels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Walter Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| creator | Sir Walter Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstWorkPublicationYear | 1814 ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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historical novel ⓘ |
| hasPart |
A Legend of Montrose
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anne of Geierstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Castle Dangerous NERFINISHED ⓘ Count Robert of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Mannering NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivanhoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenilworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Mortality NERFINISHED ⓘ Peveril of the Peak NERFINISHED ⓘ Quentin Durward NERFINISHED ⓘ Redgauntlet NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Ronan's Well NERFINISHED ⓘ The Abbot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Antiquary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bride of Lammermoor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fair Maid of Perth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fortunes of Nigel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heart of Midlothian NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monastery NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pirate NERFINISHED ⓘ Waverley NERFINISHED ⓘ Woodstock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century historical fiction
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European historical novel tradition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | helped establish the historical novel as a major literary genre ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Waverley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkInCorpus |
Ivanhoe
GENERATED
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Rob Roy GENERATED ⓘ The Heart of Midlothian GENERATED ⓘ Waverley GENERATED ⓘ |
| primarySetting |
England
NERFINISHED
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Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ continental Europe ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
17th century
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18th century ⓘ Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Waverley Novels corpus Description of subject: The Waverley Novels corpus is the collective body of historical novels by Sir Walter Scott that helped establish the genre and shaped 19th-century historical fiction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.