Ferral
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Ferral is a key character in André Malraux’s novel "Man’s Fate," representing the disillusioned European colonial presence amid the political upheavals of 1920s Shanghai.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ferral canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22784409 — 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: Ferral Context triple: [Man's Fate, notableCharacter, Ferral]
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A.
Ferentium
Ferentium was an ancient Etruscan town in central Italy, near modern Viterbo, known from Roman times and as the birthplace of the emperor Otho.
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B.
Ferro
Ferro is an alternative name for El Hierro, the smallest and westernmost of Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
Feronia
Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess associated with wilderness, fertility, and the liberation of slaves, venerated especially by the Sabines and other central Italian peoples.
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D.
Ferropolis
Ferropolis is an open-air museum and event venue in Germany featuring massive decommissioned industrial mining machines displayed on a peninsula in a former open-cast mine.
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E.
Forgesia
Forgesia is a small genus of flowering plants in the dogwood order Cornales, known for its shrubby species native to islands in the Indian Ocean.
- 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: Ferral Target entity description: Ferral is a key character in André Malraux’s novel "Man’s Fate," representing the disillusioned European colonial presence amid the political upheavals of 1920s Shanghai.
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A.
Ferentium
Ferentium was an ancient Etruscan town in central Italy, near modern Viterbo, known from Roman times and as the birthplace of the emperor Otho.
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B.
Ferro
Ferro is an alternative name for El Hierro, the smallest and westernmost of Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
Feronia
Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess associated with wilderness, fertility, and the liberation of slaves, venerated especially by the Sabines and other central Italian peoples.
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D.
Ferropolis
Ferropolis is an open-air museum and event venue in Germany featuring massive decommissioned industrial mining machines displayed on a peninsula in a former open-cast mine.
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E.
Forgesia
Forgesia is a small genus of flowering plants in the dogwood order Cornales, known for its shrubby species native to islands in the Indian Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.