A Journal of the Plague Year
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A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel by Daniel Defoe that vividly reconstructs life in London during the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Journal of the Plague Year canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T825913 — 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: A Journal of the Plague Year Context triple: [Great Plague of London, relatedWork, A Journal of the Plague Year]
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A.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a famous 17th-century personal journal that offers an intimate, day-by-day account of London life, politics, and major events such as the Great Plague and the Great Fire.
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B.
The Disasters of War
The Disasters of War is a harrowing series of etchings by Francisco Goya that graphically depicts the brutality and suffering caused by the Peninsular War in early 19th-century Spain.
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C.
La Contagion sacrée
La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
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D.
Armies of the Night
Armies of the Night is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel that blends history and personal narrative to chronicle the 1967 anti–Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
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E.
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
The Diary of Samuel Sewall is a detailed personal journal by the colonial New England judge that offers a rare, firsthand account of daily life, religion, and major events such as the Salem witch trials in late 17th- and early 18th-century Massachusetts.
- 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: A Journal of the Plague Year Target entity description: A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel by Daniel Defoe that vividly reconstructs life in London during the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak.
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A.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a famous 17th-century personal journal that offers an intimate, day-by-day account of London life, politics, and major events such as the Great Plague and the Great Fire.
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B.
The Disasters of War
The Disasters of War is a harrowing series of etchings by Francisco Goya that graphically depicts the brutality and suffering caused by the Peninsular War in early 19th-century Spain.
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C.
La Contagion sacrée
La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
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D.
Armies of the Night
Armies of the Night is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel that blends history and personal narrative to chronicle the 1967 anti–Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
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E.
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
The Diary of Samuel Sewall is a detailed personal journal by the colonial New England judge that offers a rare, firsthand account of daily life, religion, and major events such as the Salem witch trials in late 17th- and early 18th-century Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Daniel Defoe ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Great Plague of London
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bubonic plague outbreak of 1665 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| depicts |
burial practices during plague
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flight of citizens from London ⓘ lockdown of infected houses ⓘ medical practices in 17th-century London ⓘ role of clergy during plague ⓘ social impact of plague ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | radio dramatizations ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
epidemics
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fear and mortality ⓘ plague ⓘ public health measures ⓘ quarantine ⓘ religion and providence ⓘ social order during crisis ⓘ statistics and mortality bills ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| influenced |
epidemic fiction
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later plague literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | realism precursor ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 18th-century literature ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
documentary style
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pseudo-journalistic narrative ⓘ use of supposed official records ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | ostensibly eyewitness account ⓘ |
| narrator | H. F. ⓘ |
| oftenClassifiedAs | journal-like chronicle ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedIn | England ⓘ |
| publicationType | prose narrative ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1722 ⓘ |
| publisher | originally published anonymously ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Moll Flanders
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Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| setInPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| setInTimePeriod |
1665
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Great Plague of London ⓘ |
| structure | chronological account ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
courses on 18th-century British literature
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courses on literature and disease ⓘ |
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