short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"
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"The Lottery and Other Stories" is a renowned collection of dark, psychologically unsettling short fiction by American author Shirley Jackson, best known for including her iconic story "The Lottery."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lottery and Other Stories | 1 |
| The Lottery and Other Stories (reissue contexts) | 1 |
| short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715171 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories" Context triple: [Shirley Jackson, hasPart, short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"]
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short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
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The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a celebrated anthology that brings together many of Faulkner’s most important short stories, showcasing his complex narrative style and exploration of the American South.
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In the Penal Colony
"In the Penal Colony" is a dark, allegorical short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of justice, bureaucracy, and cruelty through the depiction of a gruesome execution machine in a remote penal settlement.
- 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: short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories" Target entity description: "The Lottery and Other Stories" is a renowned collection of dark, psychologically unsettling short fiction by American author Shirley Jackson, best known for including her iconic story "The Lottery."
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A.
short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
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B.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
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C.
The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
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D.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a celebrated anthology that brings together many of Faulkner’s most important short stories, showcasing his complex narrative style and exploration of the American South.
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E.
In the Penal Colony
"In the Penal Colony" is a dark, allegorical short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of justice, bureaucracy, and cruelty through the depiction of a gruesome execution machine in a remote penal settlement.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Subject: short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories" Description of subject: "The Lottery and Other Stories" is a renowned collection of dark, psychologically unsettling short fiction by American author Shirley Jackson, best known for including her iconic story "The Lottery."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Lottery and Other Stories
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"
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this entity surface form:
The Lottery and Other Stories (reissue contexts)