The Lost Lover
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The Lost Lover is a traditional folk ballad, also known as "John Riley," that tells the story of a woman’s steadfast faithfulness to her long-absent lover who returns in disguise to test her loyalty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lost Lover canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20925843 — 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 Lost Lover Context triple: [John Riley, hasAlternativeTitle, The Lost Lover]
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A.
The Great Lover
The Great Lover is a 1949 romantic comedy film starring Bob Hope as a scoutmaster entangled with a con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner.
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B.
The Great Lover
The Great Lover is a 1931 British romantic comedy film starring Roland Young, known for its lighthearted take on love and high society.
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C.
The Lover
The Lover is a prominent modern Hebrew novel, best known as A. B. Yehoshua’s exploration of love, identity, and moral ambiguity in contemporary Israeli society.
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D.
The Lover
The Lover is a 1992 French romantic drama film set in colonial Vietnam, adapted from Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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E.
The Lover
The Lover is a one-act play by Harold Pinter that explores the blurred boundaries between fantasy and reality within a seemingly conventional middle-class marriage.
- 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 Lost Lover Target entity description: The Lost Lover is a traditional folk ballad, also known as "John Riley," that tells the story of a woman’s steadfast faithfulness to her long-absent lover who returns in disguise to test her loyalty.
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A.
The Great Lover
The Great Lover is a 1931 British romantic comedy film starring Roland Young, known for its lighthearted take on love and high society.
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B.
The Great Lover
The Great Lover is a 1949 romantic comedy film starring Bob Hope as a scoutmaster entangled with a con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner.
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C.
The Lover
The Lover is a prominent modern Hebrew novel, best known as A. B. Yehoshua’s exploration of love, identity, and moral ambiguity in contemporary Israeli society.
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D.
The Lover
The Lover is a 1992 French romantic drama film set in colonial Vietnam, adapted from Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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E.
The Lover
The Lover is a one-act play by Harold Pinter that explores the blurred boundaries between fantasy and reality within a seemingly conventional middle-class marriage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“John Riley”