The Law and the Lady
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The Law and the Lady is an 1875 sensation novel by Wilkie Collins that follows a determined young wife who investigates her husband’s mysterious past and a controversial Scottish “Not Proven” verdict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Law and the Lady canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12886767 — 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 Law and the Lady Context triple: [Wilkie Collins, notableWork, The Law and the Lady]
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A.
The Lady’s Trial
The Lady’s Trial is a Caroline-era tragicomedy by English playwright John Ford that explores themes of marital fidelity, honor, and social reputation.
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B.
Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film best known for its ensemble cast including Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, and its fast-paced plot involving a libel lawsuit and romantic mix-ups.
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C.
The Pleading Woman
The Pleading Woman is the English title of Surah Al-Mujadila, a chapter of the Qur’an that centers on a woman’s complaint and God’s response to issues of justice and social conduct.
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D.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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E.
The Honourable Woman
The Honourable Woman is a British political thriller television miniseries that follows a woman entangled in international espionage and Middle Eastern peace negotiations.
- 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 Law and the Lady Target entity description: The Law and the Lady is an 1875 sensation novel by Wilkie Collins that follows a determined young wife who investigates her husband’s mysterious past and a controversial Scottish “Not Proven” verdict.
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A.
The Lady’s Trial
The Lady’s Trial is a Caroline-era tragicomedy by English playwright John Ford that explores themes of marital fidelity, honor, and social reputation.
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B.
Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film best known for its ensemble cast including Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, and its fast-paced plot involving a libel lawsuit and romantic mix-ups.
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C.
The Pleading Woman
The Pleading Woman is the English title of Surah Al-Mujadila, a chapter of the Qur’an that centers on a woman’s complaint and God’s response to issues of justice and social conduct.
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D.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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E.
The Honourable Woman
The Honourable Woman is a British political thriller television miniseries that follows a woman entangled in international espionage and Middle Eastern peace negotiations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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sensation novel ⓘ |
| author | Wilkie Collins ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
justice
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legal system ⓘ marriage ⓘ truth-seeking ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresLegalConcept | Not Proven verdict ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| followsWorkBySameAuthor |
Armadale
ⓘ
The Moonstone ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
ⓘ
sensation fiction ⓘ |
| hasLegalContext | Scottish criminal law ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime and suspicion
ⓘ
female agency ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ social reputation ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | sensation novel tradition ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Valeria Woodville ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre | works of Wilkie Collins ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young wife investigates her husband’s mysterious past and a controversial Scottish Not Proven verdict. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Valeria Woodville ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1875 ⓘ |
| setting | Scotland ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 19th century ⓘ |
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 Law and the Lady Description of subject: The Law and the Lady is an 1875 sensation novel by Wilkie Collins that follows a determined young wife who investigates her husband’s mysterious past and a controversial Scottish “Not Proven” verdict.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.