Jack Maggs
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Jack Maggs is a historical novel by Peter Carey that reimagines and subverts the story of Dickens’s "Great Expectations" from the perspective of the convict benefactor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Maggs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5136569 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Maggs Context triple: [Peter Carey, notableWork, Jack Maggs]
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Peter Blood
Peter Blood is a fictional 17th-century Irish physician-turned-pirate hero created by Rafael Sabatini and famously portrayed by Errol Flynn in the swashbuckling film "Captain Blood."
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B.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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C.
Paul Clifford
Paul Clifford is an 1830 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, best known for opening with the famously clichéd line "It was a dark and stormy night."
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D.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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E.
Lord Hodge
Lord Hodge is a senior Scottish jurist who serves as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
- 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: Jack Maggs Target entity description: Jack Maggs is a historical novel by Peter Carey that reimagines and subverts the story of Dickens’s "Great Expectations" from the perspective of the convict benefactor.
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A.
Peter Blood
Peter Blood is a fictional 17th-century Irish physician-turned-pirate hero created by Rafael Sabatini and famously portrayed by Errol Flynn in the swashbuckling film "Captain Blood."
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B.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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C.
Paul Clifford
Paul Clifford is an 1830 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, best known for opening with the famously clichéd line "It was a dark and stormy night."
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D.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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E.
Lord Hodge
Lord Hodge is a senior Scottish jurist who serves as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Peter Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Miles Franklin Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
class
ⓘ
colonialism ⓘ crime and punishment ⓘ exile ⓘ identity ⓘ power of storytelling ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| focusesOn | convict benefactor of Great Expectations ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Edward Constable
NERFINISHED
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Jack Maggs (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mercy Larkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobias Oates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780702228780 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Great Expectations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredByAuthor | Charles Dickens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary Australian literature ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
intertextuality
ⓘ
multiple perspectives ⓘ revisionist retelling ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | convict benefactor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonist | Jack Maggs (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisher | University of Queensland Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reimaginesWork | Great Expectations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subvertsWork | Great Expectations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jack Maggs Description of subject: Jack Maggs is a historical novel by Peter Carey that reimagines and subverts the story of Dickens’s "Great Expectations" from the perspective of the convict benefactor.
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