Argall
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Argall is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that reimagines the early English colonization of America and the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in a dense, baroque narrative style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Argall canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090796 — 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: Argall Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Argall]
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Gallanach
Gallanach is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Muck in the Inner Hebrides.
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Airmyn
Airmyn is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated near the town of Goole and the confluence of the Rivers Aire and Ouse.
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Gaheris
Gaheris is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of King Arthur’s nephews and a member of the Orkney clan.
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Streonshalh
Streonshalh was the original Anglo-Saxon name for the monastic settlement that later became known as Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, England.
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Givors
Givors is a commune in eastern France located in the Metropolis of Lyon, known historically as an industrial and river-port town on the Rhône.
- 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: Argall Target entity description: Argall is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that reimagines the early English colonization of America and the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in a dense, baroque narrative style.
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A.
Gallanach
Gallanach is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Muck in the Inner Hebrides.
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B.
Airmyn
Airmyn is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated near the town of Goole and the confluence of the Rivers Aire and Ouse.
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C.
Gaheris
Gaheris is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of King Arthur’s nephews and a member of the Orkney clan.
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D.
Streonshalh
Streonshalh was the original Anglo-Saxon name for the monastic settlement that later became known as Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, England.
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E.
Givors
Givors is a commune in eastern France located in the Metropolis of Lyon, known historically as an industrial and river-port town on the Rhône.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | William T. Vollmann ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical events of English colonization in North America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublicationDate | 2001 ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Captain John Smith
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English colonists ⓘ Pocahontas ⓘ Powhatan ⓘ |
| hasStyleCharacteristic |
Elizabethan-influenced prose
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archaic diction ⓘ experimental narrative structure ⓘ historical pastiche ⓘ intertextuality ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
colonialism
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cultural encounter ⓘ history and narrative ⓘ myth-making ⓘ power ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| ISBN | 9780670891805 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
historical fiction
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metafiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Captain John Smith
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Pocahontas ⓘ early English colonization of America ⓘ |
| mediaType |
book
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print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
baroque
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dense ⓘ |
| pageCount | ~700 ⓘ |
| partOf | William T. Vollmann’s historical project on North America ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
|
| reimagines |
career of Captain John Smith
ⓘ
legend of Pocahontas ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Jamestown
ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 17th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacterReference | Samuel Argall ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Argall Description of subject: Argall is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that reimagines the early English colonization of America and the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in a dense, baroque narrative style.
Referenced by (4)
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subject surface form:
William T. Vollmann