Guy Mannering
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Guy Mannering is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott that blends romance, adventure, and Scottish local color in a tale of lost heirs, family secrets, and fortune-telling.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guy Mannering canonical | 4 |
| Guy Mannering (film) | 1 |
| Guy Mannering (opera) | 1 |
| Guy Mannering (play) | 1 |
| Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866420 — 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.
Target entity: Guy Mannering Context triple: [Sir Walter Scott, notableWork, Guy Mannering]
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Charles Jervas
Charles Jervas was an Irish portrait painter and translator of Cervantes who became a prominent figure in early 18th-century London’s artistic and literary circles.
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B.
Walton and Maberly
Walton and Maberly was a 19th-century London-based publishing firm known for producing scholarly and scientific works.
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C.
Mr. Sansom
Mr. Sansom is a minor character in Truman Capote’s Southern Gothic novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," contributing to the book’s eerie, atmospheric portrayal of a decaying Southern world.
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D.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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E.
Edmund Happold
Edmund Happold was a prominent British structural engineer renowned for his innovative, collaborative approach to building design and for co-founding the influential engineering consultancy Buro Happold.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Guy Mannering Target entity description: Guy Mannering is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott that blends romance, adventure, and Scottish local color in a tale of lost heirs, family secrets, and fortune-telling.
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A.
Charles Jervas
Charles Jervas was an Irish portrait painter and translator of Cervantes who became a prominent figure in early 18th-century London’s artistic and literary circles.
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B.
Walton and Maberly
Walton and Maberly was a 19th-century London-based publishing firm known for producing scholarly and scientific works.
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C.
Mr. Sansom
Mr. Sansom is a minor character in Truman Capote’s Southern Gothic novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," contributing to the book’s eerie, atmospheric portrayal of a decaying Southern world.
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D.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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E.
Edmund Happold
Edmund Happold was a prominent British structural engineer renowned for his innovative, collaborative approach to building design and for co-founding the influential engineering consultancy Buro Happold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Guy Mannering
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surface form:
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
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| author |
Sir Walter Scott
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Sir Walter Scott ⓘ
surface form:
Walter Scott
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| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
Gypsy characters
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Scottish local color ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | three volumes ⓘ |
| follows | Waverley ⓘ |
| genre |
Scottish literature
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adventure fiction ⓘ historical novel ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Guy Mannering
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Guy Mannering (film)
Guy Mannering self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Guy Mannering (opera)
Guy Mannering self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Guy Mannering (play)
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| hasCharacter |
Colonel Mannering
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Dirk Hatteraick ⓘ Gilbert Glossin ⓘ Godfrey Bertram ⓘ Lucy Bertram ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Dominie Sampson
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Guy Mannering self-link ⓘ Harry Bertram ⓘ Julia Mannering ⓘ Meg Merrilies ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
astrology
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smuggling ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | Scottish historical romance ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family secrets
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fate and destiny ⓘ fortune-telling ⓘ identity ⓘ inheritance ⓘ lost heirs ⓘ |
| isFollowedBy | The Antiquary ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | early example of the Waverley Novels ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Meg Merrilies ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Prodigious! ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Waverley
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surface form:
Waverley Novels
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| placeOfFirstPublication | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1815 ⓘ |
| publisher | Archibald Constable ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Scotland ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | 18th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Guy Mannering Description of subject: Guy Mannering is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott that blends romance, adventure, and Scottish local color in a tale of lost heirs, family secrets, and fortune-telling.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.