Flower Garden
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"Flower Garden" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that explores themes of prejudice, conformity, and social exclusion in a small American town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flower Garden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316957 — 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: Flower Garden Context triple: [The Lottery and Other Stories, hasPart, Flower Garden]
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A.
Flower Garden
Flower Garden is a historic ornamental garden in Kroměříž, Czech Republic, renowned for its Baroque design, elaborate flowerbeds, and architectural features.
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B.
Marine Garden
Marine Garden is a specially designated intertidal conservation area that protects diverse marine life and habitats along the Oregon coast.
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C.
Island Garden
Island Garden is a former multi-purpose arena in West Hempstead, New York, best known for hosting the ABA’s New York Nets in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
Island Garden
Island Garden is a historic landscaped island within the royal estate of Aranjuez in Spain, known for its ornamental gardens and scenic river setting.
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E.
Sea Garden
Sea Garden is a landmark 1916 poetry collection by H.D. that exemplifies the Imagist movement through its vivid, concise, and image-driven verse.
- 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: Flower Garden Target entity description: "Flower Garden" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that explores themes of prejudice, conformity, and social exclusion in a small American town.
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A.
Flower Garden
Flower Garden is a historic ornamental garden in Kroměříž, Czech Republic, renowned for its Baroque design, elaborate flowerbeds, and architectural features.
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B.
Marine Garden
Marine Garden is a specially designated intertidal conservation area that protects diverse marine life and habitats along the Oregon coast.
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C.
Island Garden
Island Garden is a former multi-purpose arena in West Hempstead, New York, best known for hosting the ABA’s New York Nets in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
Island Garden
Island Garden is a historic landscaped island within the royal estate of Aranjuez in Spain, known for its ornamental gardens and scenic river setting.
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E.
Sea Garden
Sea Garden is a landmark 1916 poetry collection by H.D. that exemplifies the Imagist movement through its vivid, concise, and image-driven verse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMotif | flower garden ⓘ |
| collection | The Lottery and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| explores |
fear of difference
ⓘ
social ostracism ⓘ tension between individual morality and community norms ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | short story collection ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Mrs. MacLane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Winning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Shirley Jackson’s collected short fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | realism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| setting | small American town ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| theme |
conformity
ⓘ
outsider status ⓘ prejudice ⓘ racism ⓘ small-town hypocrisy ⓘ social class ⓘ social exclusion ⓘ |
| tone |
quietly sinister
ⓘ
uneasy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Flower Garden Description of subject: "Flower Garden" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that explores themes of prejudice, conformity, and social exclusion in a small American town.
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