The Intelligence Office
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The Intelligence Office is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, included in his collection "Mosses from an Old Manse," that satirically imagines a bureau where people seek information and fulfillment of their deepest desires.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Intelligence Office canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021582 — 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 Intelligence Office Context triple: [Mosses from an Old Manse, hasPart, The Intelligence Office]
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A.
División de Inteligencia
La División de Inteligencia es la principal unidad de inteligencia militar del Ejército de Chile, encargada de la recolección, análisis y producción de información estratégica y táctica para la defensa nacional.
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B.
The Craft of Intelligence
The Craft of Intelligence is a seminal book on espionage and intelligence operations written by former CIA Director Allen Dulles, offering an insider’s perspective on the theory and practice of modern intelligence work.
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C.
Intelligenzaktion
Intelligenzaktion was a secret Nazi German extermination campaign during the early stages of World War II aimed at eliminating the Polish intelligentsia and leadership class to cripple Polish society.
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D.
The Spy
"The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
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E.
Joint Intelligence Organisation
The Joint Intelligence Organisation is a UK government body that coordinates and assesses intelligence from across departments to support national security and foreign policy decision-making.
- 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 Intelligence Office Target entity description: The Intelligence Office is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, included in his collection "Mosses from an Old Manse," that satirically imagines a bureau where people seek information and fulfillment of their deepest desires.
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A.
División de Inteligencia
La División de Inteligencia es la principal unidad de inteligencia militar del Ejército de Chile, encargada de la recolección, análisis y producción de información estratégica y táctica para la defensa nacional.
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B.
The Craft of Intelligence
The Craft of Intelligence is a seminal book on espionage and intelligence operations written by former CIA Director Allen Dulles, offering an insider’s perspective on the theory and practice of modern intelligence work.
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C.
Intelligenzaktion
Intelligenzaktion was a secret Nazi German extermination campaign during the early stages of World War II aimed at eliminating the Polish intelligentsia and leadership class to cripple Polish society.
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D.
The Spy
"The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
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E.
Joint Intelligence Organisation
The Joint Intelligence Organisation is a UK government body that coordinates and assesses intelligence from across departments to support national security and foreign policy decision-making.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
human desire
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limitations of human institutions ⓘ search for happiness ⓘ social criticism ⓘ unattainable ideals ⓘ utopian aspirations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| exploresConcept |
bureaucracy
ⓘ
moral responsibility ⓘ social reform ⓘ wish fulfillment ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1846 ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasCollectionType | short story collection component ⓘ |
| hasImaginedInstitution | Intelligence Office ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Intelligence Office self-link ⓘ |
| includedIn | Mosses from an Old Manse ⓘ |
| isSatireOf |
human credulity
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reformist schemes ⓘ social institutions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| originalMediaType | print ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Nathaniel Hawthorne short fiction ⓘ |
| period | 19th century American literature ⓘ |
| publisher |
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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surface form:
Wiley and Putnam
|
| relatedWork |
Mosses from an Old Manse
ⓘ
Rappaccini's Daughter ⓘ The Birth-Mark ⓘ Young Goodman Brown ⓘ |
| setting | fictional bureau for information and desires ⓘ |
| tone |
allegorical
ⓘ
philosophical ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Intelligence Office Description of subject: The Intelligence Office is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, included in his collection "Mosses from an Old Manse," that satirically imagines a bureau where people seek information and fulfillment of their deepest desires.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.