The Narrows
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The Narrows is a 1953 novel by Ann Petry that explores race, class, and identity in a fictional New England town through the story of a young Black man and his ill-fated relationship with a white woman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Narrows canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9568646 — 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 Narrows Context triple: [Ann Petry, notableWork, The Narrows]
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A.
The Narrows
The Narrows is the narrow strait of water that separates the Caribbean islands of Nevis and Saint Kitts.
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B.
The Narrows
The Narrows is a constricted channel at the entrance to Plymouth Sound in England, known for its strategic maritime significance and strong tidal currents.
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C.
The Narrows
The Narrows is a crime novel by Michael Connelly that continues the story of FBI agent Rachel Walling and retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch as they investigate a serial killer known as the Poet.
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D.
The Narrows
The Narrows is a famous slot canyon hike in Zion National Park where visitors wade through the Virgin River between towering sandstone walls.
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E.
The Narrows
The Narrows is the tidal strait separating Staten Island and Brooklyn that serves as the main entrance from the Atlantic Ocean into New York Harbor.
- 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 Narrows Target entity description: The Narrows is a 1953 novel by Ann Petry that explores race, class, and identity in a fictional New England town through the story of a young Black man and his ill-fated relationship with a white woman.
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A.
The Narrows
The Narrows is the tidal strait separating Staten Island and Brooklyn that serves as the main entrance from the Atlantic Ocean into New York Harbor.
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B.
The Narrows
The Narrows is the narrow strait of water that separates the Caribbean islands of Nevis and Saint Kitts.
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C.
The Narrows
The Narrows is a constricted channel at the entrance to Plymouth Sound in England, known for its strategic maritime significance and strong tidal currents.
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D.
The Narrows
The Narrows is a crime novel by Michael Connelly that continues the story of FBI agent Rachel Walling and retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch as they investigate a serial killer known as the Poet.
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E.
The Narrows
The Narrows is a famous slot canyon hike in Zion National Park where visitors wade through the Virgin River between towering sandstone walls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Ann Petry ⓘ |
| authorEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| explores |
personal identity
ⓘ
racial prejudice ⓘ small-town life ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | white woman ⓘ |
| featuresProtagonist | young Black man ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
novel ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | female ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
African-American literary tradition
ⓘ
linked to:
African American literature
realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class
ⓘ
identity ⓘ interracial relationships ⓘ race ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young Black man in a New England town becomes involved in an ill-fated relationship with a white woman. ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1953 ⓘ |
| setting | fictional New England town ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Narrows Description of subject: The Narrows is a 1953 novel by Ann Petry that explores race, class, and identity in a fictional New England town through the story of a young Black man and his ill-fated relationship with a white woman.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.