"The Narrows" (1953)
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"The Narrows" (1953) is a novel by Ann Petry that explores race, class, and identity in a small New England town through the intertwined lives of its Black and white residents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "The Narrows" (1953) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9568667 — 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" (1953) Context triple: [Ann Petry, publicationDateOfWork, "The Narrows" (1953)]
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A.
Quicksand (1928)
Quicksand (1928) is a seminal Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen that explores race, gender, and identity through the experiences of a mixed-race woman navigating Black and white societies in the early 20th century.
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B.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is a famous viewpoint in Death Valley National Park known for its striking eroded badlands and panoramic desert landscapes.
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C.
Red Meander (1954)
Red Meander (1954) is a modernist textile artwork by Anni Albers that exemplifies her innovative use of geometric abstraction in weaving.
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D.
Riptide (1934)
Riptide (1934) is a pre-Code romantic drama film best known as one of producer Irving Thalberg’s polished MGM star vehicles of the early 1930s.
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E.
The Nuer (1940)
The Nuer (1940) is a classic ethnographic study by anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard that examines the social structure, kinship, and pastoral life of the Nuer people of South Sudan.
- 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" (1953) Target entity description: "The Narrows" (1953) is a novel by Ann Petry that explores race, class, and identity in a small New England town through the intertwined lives of its Black and white residents.
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A.
Quicksand (1928)
Quicksand (1928) is a seminal Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen that explores race, gender, and identity through the experiences of a mixed-race woman navigating Black and white societies in the early 20th century.
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B.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is a famous viewpoint in Death Valley National Park known for its striking eroded badlands and panoramic desert landscapes.
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C.
Red Meander (1954)
Red Meander (1954) is a modernist textile artwork by Anni Albers that exemplifies her innovative use of geometric abstraction in weaving.
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D.
Riptide (1934)
Riptide (1934) is a pre-Code romantic drama film best known as one of producer Irving Thalberg’s polished MGM star vehicles of the early 1930s.
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E.
The Nuer (1940)
The Nuer (1940) is a classic ethnographic study by anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard that examines the social structure, kinship, and pastoral life of the Nuer people of South Sudan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| author | Ann Petry ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| explores |
community dynamics
ⓘ
interracial relationships ⓘ personal identity ⓘ racial prejudice ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Black residents
ⓘ
white residents ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Ann Petry ⓘ |
| hasEthnicContext | African-American experience ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class
ⓘ
identity ⓘ race ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Narrows (novel) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| setting | small New England town ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | mid-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" (1953) Description of subject: "The Narrows" (1953) is a novel by Ann Petry that explores race, class, and identity in a small New England town through the intertwined lives of its Black and white residents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.