Man and Wife
E1008387
"Man and Wife" is a sensation novel by Wilkie Collins that explores Victorian marriage laws, identity, and social hypocrisy through a complex plot of deception and legal entanglements.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Man and Wife canonical | 3 |
| “Man and Wife” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12886766 — 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: Man and Wife Context triple: [Wilkie Collins, notableWork, Man and Wife]
-
A.
Mann and Wife
Mann and Wife is an American television sitcom starring Tony Rock that centers on the comedic challenges of a blended family.
-
B.
Faithful Couple
Faithful Couple is a notable pair of closely growing giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park’s Mariposa Grove, known for their intertwined appearance suggesting a devoted partnership.
-
C.
Couples
Couples is a 1968 novel by John Updike that portrays the complex sexual and emotional entanglements of a group of married couples in a New England suburb.
-
D.
Hombre y mujer
Hombre y mujer is a hyperrealist painting by Spanish artist Antonio López García that depicts an intimate, unidealized view of a couple in a domestic setting.
-
E.
Husbands
Husbands is a 1970 American comedy-drama film that follows three middle-aged friends on a chaotic, soul-searching binge after the death of a close companion.
- 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: Man and Wife Target entity description: "Man and Wife" is a sensation novel by Wilkie Collins that explores Victorian marriage laws, identity, and social hypocrisy through a complex plot of deception and legal entanglements.
-
A.
Mann and Wife
Mann and Wife is an American television sitcom starring Tony Rock that centers on the comedic challenges of a blended family.
-
B.
Faithful Couple
Faithful Couple is a notable pair of closely growing giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park’s Mariposa Grove, known for their intertwined appearance suggesting a devoted partnership.
-
C.
Couples
Couples is a 1968 novel by John Updike that portrays the complex sexual and emotional entanglements of a group of married couples in a New England suburb.
-
D.
Hombre y mujer
Hombre y mujer is a hyperrealist painting by Spanish artist Antonio López García that depicts an intimate, unidealized view of a couple in a domestic setting.
-
E.
Husbands
Husbands is a 1970 American comedy-drama film that follows three middle-aged friends on a chaotic, soul-searching binge after the death of a close companion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
sensation novel ⓘ |
| addressesIssue |
marriage as a legal contract
ⓘ
public versus private morality ⓘ social reputation and scandal ⓘ women’s legal status in marriage ⓘ |
| author | Wilkie Collins ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Victorian marriage laws
ⓘ
identity ⓘ legal entanglements ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between law and justice
ⓘ
constraints on women in Victorian society ⓘ manipulation of legal loopholes ⓘ social consequences of marriage laws ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | serialisation ⓘ |
| genre |
legal fiction
ⓘ
sensation fiction ⓘ social problem novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
deceptive husband
ⓘ
wronged woman ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | sensation novel movement ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFeature |
complex plot of deception
ⓘ
use of legal technicalities ⓘ |
| notableWork | Man and Wife ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| workOf | Wilkie Collins ⓘ |
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: Man and Wife Description of subject: "Man and Wife" is a sensation novel by Wilkie Collins that explores Victorian marriage laws, identity, and social hypocrisy through a complex plot of deception and legal entanglements.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.