The Widow
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The Widow is a tragic female character in Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "Zorba the Greek," whose relationship with the narrator and subsequent fate highlight the clash between individual desire and oppressive social norms in a Cretan village.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Widow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8994080 — 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 Context triple: [Zorba the Greek, featuresCharacter, The Widow]
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A.
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.
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B.
The Widow
"The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
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C.
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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D.
The Wives of the Dead
"The Wives of the Dead" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends melancholy, ambiguity, and the supernatural as it follows two women who receive conflicting news about their supposedly deceased husbands.
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E.
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.
- 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 Target entity description: The Widow is a tragic female character in Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "Zorba the Greek," whose relationship with the narrator and subsequent fate highlight the clash between individual desire and oppressive social norms in a Cretan village.
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A.
The Widow
"The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
The Wives of the Dead
"The Wives of the Dead" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends melancholy, ambiguity, and the supernatural as it follows two women who receive conflicting news about their supposedly deceased husbands.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Zorba the Greek ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorNationality | Greek literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Alexis Zorba
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Pavlis ⓘ the narrator (Basil) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder by villagers ⓘ |
| createdBy | Nikos Kazantzakis ⓘ |
| diesIn |
Zorba the Greek
ⓘ
linked to:
novel Zorba the Greek
|
| emotionAssociated |
desire
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fear ⓘ grief ⓘ shame ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1946 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
modern Greek literature
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philosophical novel ⓘ |
| killedBecauseOf |
perceived dishonor
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relationship with the narrator ⓘ |
| killedBy | Cretan villagers ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Greek ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for village violence
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embodiment of victimized womanhood ⓘ reveals hypocrisy of village community ⓘ tests narrator’s moral courage ⓘ |
| nationality | Greek ⓘ |
| occupation | widow ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Alexis Zorba
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the narrator ⓘ |
| residence | Cretan village ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
love interest of the narrator
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tragic character ⓘ |
| setting | Crete ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
conflict between passion and convention
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female vulnerability under patriarchy ⓘ innocent victim of collective violence ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
clash between individual desire and social norms
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honor culture ⓘ oppressive social morality ⓘ patriarchal violence ⓘ sexual repression ⓘ |
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