Book III
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Book III is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous mock-historical narrative of the city’s early days.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Book III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295486 — 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: Book III Context triple: [A History of New York, hasPart, Book III]
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A.
Book II
Book II is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous, mock-historical narrative of early New York.
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B.
Volume III
Volume III is the third book in Charles Lyell’s influential multi-volume work "Principles of Geology," which helped establish modern geology and popularize the concept of deep geological time.
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C.
Book V
Book V is one of the later sections of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its mock-historical narrative of the early Dutch settlement of the city.
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D.
Book I
Book I is the opening section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, introducing the mock-historical tone and humorous narrative that characterize the rest of the book.
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E.
Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei
Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei is a section of Cotton Mather’s historical work Magnalia Christi Americana that focuses on the defense and history of New England churches.
- 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: Book III Target entity description: Book III is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous mock-historical narrative of the city’s early days.
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A.
Book II
Book II is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous, mock-historical narrative of early New York.
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B.
Volume III
Volume III is the third book in Charles Lyell’s influential multi-volume work "Principles of Geology," which helped establish modern geology and popularize the concept of deep geological time.
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C.
Book V
Book V is one of the later sections of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its mock-historical narrative of the early Dutch settlement of the city.
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D.
Book I
Book I is the opening section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, introducing the mock-historical tone and humorous narrative that characterize the rest of the book.
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E.
Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei
Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei is a section of Cotton Mather’s historical work Magnalia Christi Americana that focuses on the defense and history of New England churches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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literary work ⓘ |
| author | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
humorous fiction
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satire ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | historical parody ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | mock-historical narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| narrator | Diedrich Knickerbocker ⓘ |
| partOf |
A History of New York
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early 19th-century American satire ⓘ |
| pseudonymousAuthor | Diedrich Knickerbocker ⓘ |
| settingPlace | New York ⓘ |
| settingTime | early history of New York ⓘ |
| subject |
New Netherland
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surface form:
Dutch colonial New York
early days of New York City ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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satirical ⓘ |
| usesLiteraryDevice |
exaggeration
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irony ⓘ parody of historical scholarship ⓘ |
| workInSeries |
A History of New York
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surface form:
A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker
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Input
Subject: Book III Description of subject: Book III is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous mock-historical narrative of the city’s early days.
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