A Long Petal of the Sea
E103168
A Long Petal of the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows Spanish Civil War refugees exiled to Chile, exploring themes of displacement, love, and political upheaval across decades.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Long Petal of the Sea canonical | 9 |
| A Long Petal of the Sea universe | 1 |
| Isabel Allende’s novel A Long Petal of the Sea | 1 |
| Long Petal of the Sea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T872437 — 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: A Long Petal of the Sea Context triple: [Isabel Allende, notableWork, A Long Petal of the Sea]
-
A.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
-
B.
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic war drama film, based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel, that follows the tragic, interwoven stories of several characters during World War II and won multiple Academy Awards.
-
C.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
-
D.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is a traditional Marian title that invokes the Virgin Mary as a guiding and protective figure for Christians, especially sailors and travelers.
-
E.
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch is a famous 1654 trompe-l'œil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius, depicting a life-sized goldfinch chained to its perch.
- 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 Long Petal of the Sea Target entity description: A Long Petal of the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows Spanish Civil War refugees exiled to Chile, exploring themes of displacement, love, and political upheaval across decades.
-
A.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
-
B.
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic war drama film, based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel, that follows the tragic, interwoven stories of several characters during World War II and won multiple Academy Awards.
-
C.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
-
D.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is a traditional Marian title that invokes the Virgin Mary as a guiding and protective figure for Christians, especially sailors and travelers.
-
E.
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch is a famous 1654 trompe-l'œil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius, depicting a life-sized goldfinch chained to its perch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Isabel Allende ⓘ |
| awarded | American Book Award ⓘ |
| contains |
historical references to the Pinochet dictatorship
ⓘ
historical references to the Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Chile ⓘ |
| explores |
the experience of political refugees
ⓘ
the impact of dictatorship in Chile ⓘ |
| featuresEvent | Voyage of the Winnipeg ⓘ |
| featuresFigure | Pablo Neruda ⓘ |
| follows | Spanish Civil War refugees ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
war novel ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-9848-1873-2 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Pablo Neruda ⓘ |
| languageVersion | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Latin American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Guillem
ⓘ
Rosera Bruguera ⓘ Víctor Dalmau ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | several decades ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person omniscient ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Largo pétalo de mar ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 320 ⓘ |
| partOf | Isabel Allende bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Ballantine Books
ⓘ
Plaza & Janés ⓘ |
| setDuring | Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| setIn |
Chile
ⓘ
France ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor |
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
ⓘ
linked to:
Walter Scott Prize
|
| theme |
displacement
ⓘ
exile ⓘ family ⓘ love ⓘ memory ⓘ political upheaval ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| titleDerivedFrom | a phrase by Pablo Neruda describing Chile as a "long petal of sea and wine and snow" ⓘ |
| translatedBy |
Amanda Hopkinson
ⓘ
Nick Caistor ⓘ |
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: A Long Petal of the Sea Description of subject: A Long Petal of the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows Spanish Civil War refugees exiled to Chile, exploring themes of displacement, love, and political upheaval across decades.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Long Petal of the Sea
linked to: A Long Petal of the Sea