Book III
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Book III is the third of four sections in James Joyce’s experimental novel *Finnegans Wake*, continuing its dense, dreamlike narrative and complex linguistic play.
All labels observed (1)
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| Book III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10184369 — 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: Book III Context triple: [Finnegans Wake, hasPart, Book III]
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Book III
Book III is the section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract* that focuses on the nature, forms, and functioning of government in relation to the sovereign people.
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Book III
Book III is the final section of Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, in which he applies his laws of motion and universal gravitation to explain the motions of celestial bodies and the structure of the solar system.
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Book III
Book III is a component section of the Power Architecture specification that defines part of the architecture’s operational and programming model.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, continuing his systematic defense and explanation of Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
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Book III
Book III of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section in which he analyzes moral responsibility, voluntary and involuntary action, and the nature of courage and temperance as key virtues.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book III Target entity description: Book III is the third of four sections in James Joyce’s experimental novel *Finnegans Wake*, continuing its dense, dreamlike narrative and complex linguistic play.
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Book III
Book III is a major section of Henry Fielding’s comic novel "Joseph Andrews," continuing the picaresque adventures and satirical episodes of its protagonist.
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Book III
Book III is the third section of Augustine’s theological treatise *On Christian Doctrine*, focusing on the principles for interpreting ambiguous or figurative passages of Scripture.
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Book III
Book III is the third section of Herman Melville’s long religious-epic poem *Clarel*, continuing its exploration of faith, doubt, and spiritual crisis during a pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
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Book III
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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Book III is a section of Leonardo Bruni’s historical work "History of the Florentine People," continuing his humanist narrative of Florence’s political and civic development.
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Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
part of Finnegans Wake
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section of a novel ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacters |
ALP
NERFINISHED
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HCE NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaun NERFINISHED ⓘ Shem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| feature |
complex linguistic play
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dense prose ⓘ multilingual puns ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ portmanteau words ⓘ |
| firstPublicationIn | Finnegans Wake first edition ⓘ |
| followedBy | Book IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Book II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Chapter 1 of Book III
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Chapter 2 of Book III ⓘ Chapter 3 of Book III ⓘ Chapter 4 of Book III ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | High modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
dreamlike
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experimental ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFor |
difficulty of interpretation
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extensive wordplay ⓘ innovative narrative techniques ⓘ |
| originalPublisher |
Faber and Faber
NERFINISHED
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Viking Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Finnegans Wake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | 3 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| setting | Dublin (dreamlike version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
cyclical nature of history
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dream and reality overlap ⓘ family dynamics ⓘ guilt and redemption ⓘ identity and transformation ⓘ |
| workBy | James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workIn | modernist literature ⓘ |
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Subject: Book III Description of subject: Book III is the third of four sections in James Joyce’s experimental novel *Finnegans Wake*, continuing its dense, dreamlike narrative and complex linguistic play.
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