The Wife
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"The Wife" is an 1887 stage drama by American playwright Henry Churchill DeMille that explores marriage, social reputation, and moral conflict in upper-class society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wife canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1124297 — 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 Wife Context triple: [Henry Churchill DeMille, notableWork, The Wife]
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A.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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B.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
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C.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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D.
An Ordinary Couple
An Ordinary Couple is a romantic song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music."
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E.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
- 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 Wife Target entity description: "The Wife" is an 1887 stage drama by American playwright Henry Churchill DeMille that explores marriage, social reputation, and moral conflict in upper-class society.
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A.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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B.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
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C.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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D.
An Ordinary Couple
An Ordinary Couple is a romantic song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music."
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E.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
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stage drama ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Henry Churchill DeMille ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| authorOccupation | playwright ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dramaticPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| era | 19th-century American theatre ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1887 ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
melodrama ⓘ |
| hasForm | stage play ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class and social status
ⓘ
conflict between personal happiness and social duty ⓘ gender roles in marriage ⓘ reputation and scandal ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
domestic life
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marital fidelity ⓘ social morality ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1887 ⓘ |
| setting | upper-class society ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
marriage
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moral conflict ⓘ social reputation ⓘ |
| workOf | Henry Churchill DeMille ⓘ |
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 Wife Description of subject: "The Wife" is an 1887 stage drama by American playwright Henry Churchill DeMille that explores marriage, social reputation, and moral conflict in upper-class society.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.