The Four Stages of Cruelty
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The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of moralizing engravings by William Hogarth that graphically depict the progressive brutality and downfall of a cruel protagonist as a warning against animal and human cruelty.
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| The Four Stages of Cruelty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16145390 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Four Stages of Cruelty Context triple: [William Hogarth, notableWork, The Four Stages of Cruelty]
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The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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The Torture Garden
The Torture Garden is a controversial 1899 decadent novel by French writer Octave Mirbeau that blends political satire, philosophical reflection, and graphic depictions of cruelty to critique Western civilization and authoritarian power.
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C.
The Vicious Kind
The Vicious Kind is a 2009 dark comedy-drama film about a bitter, insomniac man whose life unravels when his younger brother brings home a new girlfriend for Thanksgiving.
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D.
Contes cruels
Contes cruels is a celebrated collection of fantastical and macabre short stories by French symbolist writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, noted for its dark irony and philosophical pessimism.
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E.
The Slaughter Pen
The Slaughter Pen is a rocky, boulder-strewn area on the Gettysburg battlefield known for its intense and deadly close-quarters fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Four Stages of Cruelty Target entity description: The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of moralizing engravings by William Hogarth that graphically depict the progressive brutality and downfall of a cruel protagonist as a warning against animal and human cruelty.
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A.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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B.
The Torture Garden
The Torture Garden is a controversial 1899 decadent novel by French writer Octave Mirbeau that blends political satire, philosophical reflection, and graphic depictions of cruelty to critique Western civilization and authoritarian power.
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C.
The Vicious Kind
The Vicious Kind is a 2009 dark comedy-drama film about a bitter, insomniac man whose life unravels when his younger brother brings home a new girlfriend for Thanksgiving.
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D.
Contes cruels
Contes cruels is a celebrated collection of fantastical and macabre short stories by French symbolist writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, noted for its dark irony and philosophical pessimism.
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E.
The Slaughter Pen
The Slaughter Pen is a rocky, boulder-strewn area on the Gettysburg battlefield known for its intense and deadly close-quarters fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Hogarth