The Fathers
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"The Fathers" is a 1938 Southern Gothic novel by American poet and critic Allen Tate that explores the moral and social collapse of a Virginia family on the eve of the Civil War.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Fathers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14296118 — 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 Fathers Context triple: [Allen Tate, notableWork, The Fathers]
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The Fathers
"The Fathers" is a poem from Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I collection *Counter-Attack and Other Poems*, reflecting his characteristic anti-war themes and critical perspective on those removed from the front lines.
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Of the Faith of the Fathers
"Of the Faith of the Fathers" is a chapter in W.E.B. Du Bois's seminal work *The Souls of Black Folk* that explores the spiritual life, religious traditions, and moral resilience of African Americans in the post-slavery era.
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Sons of an Illustrious Father
Sons of an Illustrious Father is an experimental indie rock band known for its genre-blending sound and for featuring actor-musician Ezra Miller as a member.
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D.
White Fathers
The White Fathers, formally known as the Missionaries of Africa, are a Roman Catholic missionary society founded in 1868 that is especially active in Africa and the Middle East.
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E.
Other Father
Other Father is a doppelgänger parental figure created by the Other Mother in Neil Gaiman’s "Coraline," appearing as a seemingly kind but ultimately controlled and unsettling version of Coraline’s real father.
- 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 Fathers Target entity description: "The Fathers" is a 1938 Southern Gothic novel by American poet and critic Allen Tate that explores the moral and social collapse of a Virginia family on the eve of the Civil War.
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A.
The Fathers
"The Fathers" is a poem from Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I collection *Counter-Attack and Other Poems*, reflecting his characteristic anti-war themes and critical perspective on those removed from the front lines.
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B.
Of the Faith of the Fathers
"Of the Faith of the Fathers" is a chapter in W.E.B. Du Bois's seminal work *The Souls of Black Folk* that explores the spiritual life, religious traditions, and moral resilience of African Americans in the post-slavery era.
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C.
Sons of an Illustrious Father
Sons of an Illustrious Father is an experimental indie rock band known for its genre-blending sound and for featuring actor-musician Ezra Miller as a member.
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D.
White Fathers
The White Fathers, formally known as the Missionaries of Africa, are a Roman Catholic missionary society founded in 1868 that is especially active in Africa and the Middle East.
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E.
Other Father
Other Father is a doppelgänger parental figure created by the Other Mother in Neil Gaiman’s "Coraline," appearing as a seemingly kind but ultimately controlled and unsettling version of Coraline’s real father.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.