Uncle Tom's Cabin

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anti-slavery novel novel

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1852 anti-slavery novel that powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States and abroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

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Label	Occurrences
Uncle Tom's Cabin canonical	43
Uncle Tom’s Cabin	28
Uncle Tom’s Cabin universe	2
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"	1
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" (serial form)	1
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin	1
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"	1
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)	1
Uncle Tom's Cabin (film adaptations)	1
Uncle Tom's Cabin (stage adaptations)	1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852 novel)	1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)	1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (stage adaptation)	1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Chapter 1	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T53883 — 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: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Context triple: [Harriet Beecher Stowe, notableWork, Uncle Tom's Cabin]

A. Harriet
Harriet is the given name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century American author best known for writing the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
B. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.
C. My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom is an 1855 autobiographical slave narrative by Frederick Douglass that expands on his earlier life story to offer a powerful critique of American slavery and racism.
D. Douglass
Douglass is a surname and given name most famously associated with Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century American abolitionist, writer, and orator.
E. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" is a landmark 1845 autobiography that powerfully recounts Douglass’s experiences in slavery and his journey to freedom, becoming a foundational work of American abolitionist literature.
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: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Target entity description: Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1852 anti-slavery novel that powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States and abroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

A. Harriet
Harriet is the given name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century American author best known for writing the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
B. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.
C. My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom is an 1855 autobiographical slave narrative by Frederick Douglass that expands on his earlier life story to offer a powerful critique of American slavery and racism.
D. Douglass
Douglass is a surname and given name most famously associated with Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century American abolitionist, writer, and orator.
E. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" is a landmark 1845 autobiography that powerfully recounts Douglass’s experiences in slavery and his journey to freedom, becoming a foundational work of American abolitionist literature.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anti-slavery novel ⓘ novel ⓘ
adaptedInto	silent films ⓘ sound films ⓘ television productions ⓘ theatrical melodramas ⓘ
author	Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ
centralTheme	Christian morality ⓘ family separation under slavery ⓘ racial injustice ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ
commercialSuccess	bestseller in the 19th-century United States ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
earlySalesMilestone	sold hundreds of thousands of copies within its first year ⓘ
firstEditionPrintRun	5000 copies ⓘ
firstPublicationMedium	The National Era ⓘ
firstPublishedAs	serial ⓘ
firstSerializationStartYear	1851 ⓘ
genre	abolitionist literature ⓘ political fiction ⓘ social protest novel ⓘ
hasAdaptation	Uncle Tom's Cabin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Uncle Tom's Cabin (film adaptations) Uncle Tom's Cabin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Uncle Tom's Cabin (stage adaptations)
impact	contributed to sectional tensions before the American Civil War ⓘ helped galvanize anti-slavery forces in the North ⓘ
influenced	American abolitionist movement ⓘ British public opinion on slavery ⓘ anti-slavery sentiment in Europe ⓘ public opinion on slavery in the United States ⓘ
literaryForm	prose fiction ⓘ
literaryPeriod	19th-century American literature ⓘ
mainCharacter	Augustine St. Clare ⓘ Eliza Harris ⓘ Eva St. Clare ⓘ George Harris ⓘ Simon Legree ⓘ Topsy ⓘ Uncle Tom ⓘ
notableQuoteAttributed	So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
publicationYear	1852 ⓘ
publisher	John P. Jewett & Company ⓘ
quoteAttributedSpeaker	Abraham Lincoln ⓘ
setInPeriod	pre-Civil War United States ⓘ
setInPlace	Kentucky ⓘ Louisiana ⓘ
subjectOf	debates about the "Uncle Tom" stereotype ⓘ literary criticism on racial stereotypes ⓘ

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