The Widow
E420607
"The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Widow canonical | 1 |
| The Widow’s Retinue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4190747 — 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 Widow Context triple: [Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists, hasPart, The Widow]
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A.
The Widow and Her Son
"The Widow and Her Son" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that portrays the quiet dignity and sorrow of a poor widow devoted to her only child.
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B.
The Wives of the Dead
"The Wives of the Dead" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends melancholy, ambiguity, and the supernatural as it follows two women who receive conflicting news about their supposedly deceased husbands.
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C.
The Lady
The Lady is the mysterious, sharpshooting female gunslinger who enters a deadly quick-draw tournament to confront her past in the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
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D.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
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E.
A Widow for One Year
A Widow for One Year is a 1998 novel by John Irving that follows the intertwined lives of a children’s book author, his daughter, and their complex family relationships over several decades.
- 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 Widow Target entity description: "The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
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A.
The Widow and Her Son
"The Widow and Her Son" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that portrays the quiet dignity and sorrow of a poor widow devoted to her only child.
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B.
The Wives of the Dead
"The Wives of the Dead" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends melancholy, ambiguity, and the supernatural as it follows two women who receive conflicting news about their supposedly deceased husbands.
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C.
The Lady
The Lady is the mysterious, sharpshooting female gunslinger who enters a deadly quick-draw tournament to confront her past in the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
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D.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
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E.
A Widow for One Year
A Widow for One Year is a 1998 novel by John Irving that follows the intertwined lives of a children’s book author, his daughter, and their complex family relationships over several decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous sketch
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1822 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts | English country gentry ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
character study
ⓘ
humor ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
English gentleman
ⓘ
widow ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
courtship and society
ⓘ
manners and customs ⓘ social life of the gentry ⓘ widowhood ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | prose fiction ⓘ |
| includedIn | 19th-century American literature syllabi ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Bracebridge Hall ⓘ |
| publicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| setting | English countryside ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Widow Description of subject: "The Widow" is a humorous sketch or tale within Washington Irving's 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall*, depicting the social life and character studies of English country gentry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Widow’s Retinue