The Feather Merchants
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The Feather Merchants is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on postwar American life and military bureaucracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Feather Merchants canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1280863 — 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 Feather Merchants Context triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, The Feather Merchants]
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A.
The Silk Spinners
"The Silk Spinners" is an episode of the nature documentary series *Life in the Undergrowth* that explores the remarkable diversity, behavior, and engineering feats of silk-producing invertebrates such as spiders and caterpillars.
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B.
La Distribution des Aigles
La Distribution des Aigles is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting depicting Napoleon ceremonially presenting imperial eagles to his troops.
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C.
Old Fuss and Feathers
Old Fuss and Feathers was the famous nickname of Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century U.S. Army general known for his strict discipline and elaborate military bearing.
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D.
The Eagle
The Eagle is a 1925 silent adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino as a dashing Russian outlaw hero.
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E.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
- 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 Feather Merchants Target entity description: The Feather Merchants is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on postwar American life and military bureaucracy.
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A.
The Silk Spinners
"The Silk Spinners" is an episode of the nature documentary series *Life in the Undergrowth* that explores the remarkable diversity, behavior, and engineering feats of silk-producing invertebrates such as spiders and caterpillars.
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B.
La Distribution des Aigles
La Distribution des Aigles is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting depicting Napoleon ceremonially presenting imperial eagles to his troops.
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C.
Old Fuss and Feathers
Old Fuss and Feathers was the famous nickname of Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century U.S. Army general known for his strict discipline and elaborate military bearing.
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D.
The Eagle
The Eagle is a 1925 silent adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino as a dashing Russian outlaw hero.
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E.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Max Shulman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalSetting |
United States military
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linked to:
United States Armed Forces
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| genre |
humor
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satire ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
bureaucracy
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military life ⓘ post–World War II America ⓘ satire of institutions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | comic ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
military bureaucracy
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postwar American life ⓘ |
| workOf | Max Shulman ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Max Shulman ⓘ |
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 Feather Merchants Description of subject: The Feather Merchants is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on postwar American life and military bureaucracy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.