The Boarding House
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"The Boarding House" is a short story by James Joyce, included in his collection Dubliners, that explores themes of social pressure, marriage, and moral ambiguity in early 20th-century Dublin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boarding House canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10184330 — 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 Boarding House Context triple: [Dubliners, hasPart, The Boarding House]
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A.
The Boarding-House
"The Boarding-House" is a comic short story by Charles Dickens that satirically portrays the eccentric residents and petty intrigues within a London lodging house.
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B.
The Girl on the Landing
The Girl on the Landing is a psychological novel by British writer Paul Torday that blends elements of mystery and the supernatural to explore mental illness, memory, and the fragility of identity within a seemingly conventional marriage.
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C.
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a satirical play by George Bernard Shaw that critiques the complacency and moral decay of the British upper class on the eve of World War I.
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D.
The Governess
The Governess is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin that depicts a domestic scene emphasizing quiet moral instruction and middle-class family life.
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E.
Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny by Gaslight is a 1944 British melodrama film, based on Michael Sadleir’s novel, that follows a young woman’s coming-of-age amid scandal and social hypocrisy in Victorian London.
- 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 Boarding House Target entity description: "The Boarding House" is a short story by James Joyce, included in his collection Dubliners, that explores themes of social pressure, marriage, and moral ambiguity in early 20th-century Dublin.
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A.
The Boarding-House
"The Boarding-House" is a comic short story by Charles Dickens that satirically portrays the eccentric residents and petty intrigues within a London lodging house.
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B.
The Girl on the Landing
The Girl on the Landing is a psychological novel by British writer Paul Torday that blends elements of mystery and the supernatural to explore mental illness, memory, and the fragility of identity within a seemingly conventional marriage.
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C.
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a satirical play by George Bernard Shaw that critiques the complacency and moral decay of the British upper class on the eve of World War I.
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D.
The Governess
The Governess is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin that depicts a domestic scene emphasizing quiet moral instruction and middle-class family life.
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E.
Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny by Gaslight is a 1944 British melodrama film, based on Michael Sadleir’s novel, that follows a young woman’s coming-of-age amid scandal and social hypocrisy in Victorian London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
short story
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work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce ⓘ |
| centralConflict | pressure on Mr Doran to marry Polly ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
marriage as social contract
ⓘ
reputation and scandal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| explores |
constraints of Irish middle-class society
ⓘ
intersection of sexuality and social convention ⓘ manipulation within family relationships ⓘ |
| firstBookPublication |
Dubliners (1914)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dubliners
|
| genre |
modernist literature
ⓘ
realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | short story length ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | widely anthologized short story ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Dubliners ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
epiphany
ⓘ
free indirect discourse ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Mr Doran
ⓘ
Mrs Mooney ⓘ Polly Mooney ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1914 ⓘ |
| partOf | Dubliners ⓘ |
| placeInCollectionOrder | seventh story in Dubliners ⓘ |
| protagonist | Mrs Mooney ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Grant Richards Ltd ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
A Little Cloud
ⓘ
Araby ⓘ
linked to:
Dubliners
Eveline ⓘ |
| setIn | a Dublin boarding house ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Irish literature courses
ⓘ
modernist literature courses ⓘ |
| theme |
Catholic morality
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economic dependence ⓘ gender roles ⓘ marriage ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ respectability ⓘ social pressure ⓘ |
| workChronologyWithinDubliners | middle-phase story ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Boarding House Description of subject: "The Boarding House" is a short story by James Joyce, included in his collection Dubliners, that explores themes of social pressure, marriage, and moral ambiguity in early 20th-century Dublin.
Referenced by (2)
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