The Card
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The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Card canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2898320 — 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 Card Context triple: [Arnold Bennett, notableWork, The Card]
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A.
Troika card
The Troika card is a reusable contactless smart card used for paying fares across Moscow’s public transportation system.
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B.
Go-To Card
The Go-To Card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Minneapolis–Saint Paul METRO transit system.
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C.
Cardiac Cards
Cardiac Cards is a nickname for the former St. Louis Cardinals NFL team, referencing their dramatic, late-game comebacks and close finishes.
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D.
Nol card
The Nol card is a rechargeable smart card used for paying fares across Dubai’s public transportation network, including metro, buses, trams, and water buses.
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E.
Card
Card is a surname most notably borne by Andrew Card, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
- 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 Card Target entity description: The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
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A.
Troika card
The Troika card is a reusable contactless smart card used for paying fares across Moscow’s public transportation system.
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B.
Go-To Card
The Go-To Card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Minneapolis–Saint Paul METRO transit system.
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C.
Cardiac Cards
Cardiac Cards is a nickname for the former St. Louis Cardinals NFL team, referencing their dramatic, late-game comebacks and close finishes.
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D.
Nol card
The Nol card is a rechargeable smart card used for paying fares across Dubai’s public transportation network, including metro, buses, trams, and water buses.
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E.
Card
Card is a surname most notably borne by Andrew Card, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Card (1922 film)
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The Card (1952 film) ⓘ stage musical adaptations ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Five Towns stories
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surface form:
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
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| author | Arnold Bennett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | life in the Staffordshire Potteries (fictionalized as Five Towns) ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| follows | the ambitious rise of Edward Henry Machin ⓘ |
| genre | comic fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Edward Henry Machin ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Five Towns stories
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surface form:
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
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| literarySeries | Five Towns novels ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Edward Henry Machin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
ambition
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provincial life in industrial England ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeInAuthorOeuvre | one of Arnold Bennett's best-known novels ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | entrepreneur ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait |
charming
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enterprising ⓘ |
| publisher | Methuen & Co. ⓘ |
| setting | Five Towns ⓘ |
| settingType | fictional townscape ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
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 Card Description of subject: The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.