After You, My Dear Alphonse
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"After You, My Dear Alphonse" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, best known for its subtle critique of racial prejudice and social assumptions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| After You, My Dear Alphonse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316954 — 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: After You, My Dear Alphonse Context triple: [The Lottery and Other Stories, hasPart, After You, My Dear Alphonse]
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A.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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B.
Les Amours
Les Amours is a celebrated 16th-century sonnet sequence by Pierre de Ronsard that helped establish him as a leading poet of the French Renaissance.
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C.
Une Page d’amour
Une Page d’amour is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores love, jealousy, and bourgeois domestic life in 19th-century Paris through the story of a widowed mother and her sickly daughter.
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D.
Goodbye Marie
"Goodbye Marie" is a country song recorded by Kenny Rogers about a bittersweet farewell to a lover.
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E.
Les Amoureuses
Les Amoureuses is one of Burgundy’s most celebrated and sought-after Premier Cru vineyards, renowned for producing exceptionally elegant and perfumed Pinot Noir wines.
- 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: After You, My Dear Alphonse Target entity description: "After You, My Dear Alphonse" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, best known for its subtle critique of racial prejudice and social assumptions.
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A.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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B.
Les Amours
Les Amours is a celebrated 16th-century sonnet sequence by Pierre de Ronsard that helped establish him as a leading poet of the French Renaissance.
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C.
Une Page d’amour
Une Page d’amour is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores love, jealousy, and bourgeois domestic life in 19th-century Paris through the story of a widowed mother and her sickly daughter.
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D.
Goodbye Marie
"Goodbye Marie" is a country song recorded by Kenny Rogers about a bittersweet farewell to a lover.
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E.
Les Amoureuses
Les Amoureuses is one of Burgundy’s most celebrated and sought-after Premier Cru vineyards, renowned for producing exceptionally elegant and perfumed Pinot Noir wines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationalUse |
commonly anthologized in school readers
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used to teach themes of prejudice and bias ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Boyd
NERFINISHED
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Johnny NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny's mother ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
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short fiction ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasTitle | After You, My Dear Alphonse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
dialogue-driven narrative
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dramatic irony ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class and race
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racial prejudice ⓘ social assumptions ⓘ stereotyping ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of unconscious bias in everyday conversation
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subtle critique of racial prejudice ⓘ |
| setting | American middle-class home ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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satirical ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: After You, My Dear Alphonse Description of subject: "After You, My Dear Alphonse" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, best known for its subtle critique of racial prejudice and social assumptions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Lottery and Other Stories