The Shepherd's Calendar
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The Shepherd's Calendar is a collection of tales and sketches by Scottish writer James Hogg that vividly portrays rural life, folklore, and customs in the Scottish Borders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Shepherd's Calendar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11780656 — 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: The Shepherd's Calendar Context triple: [James Hogg, notableWork, The Shepherd's Calendar]
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A.
Book of Seasons
Book of Seasons is a section of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah that codifies Jewish laws related to Sabbaths, festivals, and the yearly religious calendar.
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B.
Shepheardes Calender
Shepheardes Calender is a 1579 pastoral poetry collection by Edmund Spenser that helped establish his reputation and is notable for its archaic language and allegorical commentary on Elizabethan society.
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C.
The Shepherd’s Paradise
The Shepherd’s Paradise is a 17th-century pastoral drama by Walter Montagu, notable for its elaborate courtly setting and early performance at the English royal court.
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D.
The Book of Days
The Book of Days is a 19th-century reference work by Robert Chambers that compiles curious facts, anecdotes, and historical events arranged according to the calendar.
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E.
Come into the Garden, Maud
Come into the Garden, Maud is a painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his expressive, abstract style and vibrant use of color.
- 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: The Shepherd's Calendar Target entity description: The Shepherd's Calendar is a collection of tales and sketches by Scottish writer James Hogg that vividly portrays rural life, folklore, and customs in the Scottish Borders.
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A.
Book of Seasons
Book of Seasons is a section of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah that codifies Jewish laws related to Sabbaths, festivals, and the yearly religious calendar.
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B.
Shepheardes Calender
Shepheardes Calender is a 1579 pastoral poetry collection by Edmund Spenser that helped establish his reputation and is notable for its archaic language and allegorical commentary on Elizabethan society.
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C.
The Shepherd’s Paradise
The Shepherd’s Paradise is a 17th-century pastoral drama by Walter Montagu, notable for its elaborate courtly setting and early performance at the English royal court.
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D.
The Book of Days
The Book of Days is a 19th-century reference work by Robert Chambers that compiles curious facts, anecdotes, and historical events arranged according to the calendar.
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E.
Come into the Garden, Maud
Come into the Garden, Maud is a painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his expressive, abstract style and vibrant use of color.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | James Hogg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| depicts |
Scottish folklore
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Scottish rural customs ⓘ rural life in the Scottish Borders ⓘ |
| genre |
short stories
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sketches ⓘ tales ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“The Adventures of Captain John Lochy”
NERFINISHED
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“The Bridal of Polmood” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Brownie of the Black Haggs” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Laird of Cassway” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Shepherd’s Calendar” (title sketch) NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Souters of Selkirk” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Wool-Gatherer” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Scottish Borders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Shepherd's Calendar Description of subject: The Shepherd's Calendar is a collection of tales and sketches by Scottish writer James Hogg that vividly portrays rural life, folklore, and customs in the Scottish Borders.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.