The Sea Lady
E104414
The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sea Lady canonical | 2 |
| the Sea Lady | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T849262 — 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 Sea Lady Context triple: [The First Men in the Moon, followedBy, The Sea Lady]
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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C.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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D.
Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind is a 1941 nature book by marine biologist Rachel Carson that vividly portrays the lives of sea creatures through lyrical, scientifically informed narrative.
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E.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
- 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 Sea Lady Target entity description: The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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C.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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D.
Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind is a 1941 nature book by marine biologist Rachel Carson that vividly portrays the lives of sea creatures through lyrical, scientifically informed narrative.
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E.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| author |
H. G. Wells
ⓘ
linked to:
Herbert George Wells
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| centralTheme |
class and society
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disruption of social norms ⓘ gender roles ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between duty and desire
ⓘ
respectability in Edwardian society ⓘ the role of women ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | mermaid ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | book ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Herbert George Wells ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Adeline Glendower
ⓘ
Chatteris ⓘ the Sea Lady ⓘ
linked to:
The Sea Lady
|
| hasMotif |
otherworldly visitor
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temptation ⓘ the sea ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Edwardian era ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | multiple narrators ⓘ |
| partOf | H. G. Wells bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1902 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Edwardian society ⓘ |
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 Sea Lady Description of subject: The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Sea Lady