The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The Adventures of Roderick Random is an 18th-century picaresque novel following the misadventures of a roguish Scottish protagonist as he navigates social injustice, naval warfare, and romantic entanglements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Adventures of Roderick Random canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11931644 — 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 Adventures of Roderick Random Context triple: [Tobias Smollett, notableWork, The Adventures of Roderick Random]
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A.
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend is a 1906 silent fantasy film, inspired by Winsor McCay’s comic strip, that depicts a man’s surreal, nightmare-filled hallucinations after overindulging in Welsh rarebit.
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B.
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is a satirical prose work collaboratively written by members of the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, parodying pedantry and false learning through the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus.
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C.
The Book of Folly
The Book of Folly is a 1972 poetry collection by Anne Sexton that explores themes of madness, mortality, and the female experience through her characteristic confessional style.
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D.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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E.
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes is a dark, surreal short story by Rudyard Kipling about a British engineer who becomes trapped in a nightmarish sand-pit village of the living dead.
- 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 Adventures of Roderick Random Target entity description: The Adventures of Roderick Random is an 18th-century picaresque novel following the misadventures of a roguish Scottish protagonist as he navigates social injustice, naval warfare, and romantic entanglements.
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A.
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend is a 1906 silent fantasy film, inspired by Winsor McCay’s comic strip, that depicts a man’s surreal, nightmare-filled hallucinations after overindulging in Welsh rarebit.
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B.
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is a satirical prose work collaboratively written by members of the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, parodying pedantry and false learning through the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus.
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C.
The Book of Folly
The Book of Folly is a 1972 poetry collection by Anne Sexton that explores themes of madness, mortality, and the female experience through her characteristic confessional style.
-
D.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
-
E.
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes is a dark, surreal short story by Rudyard Kipling about a British engineer who becomes trapped in a nightmarish sand-pit village of the living dead.
- F. None of above. chosen
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