Joseph Andrews
E166316
Joseph Andrews is a comic novel by Henry Fielding that parodies the sentimental fiction of its time and is considered a foundational work of the English realistic novel.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Andrews canonical | 32 |
| Book I (Joseph Andrews) | 1 |
| Book II (Joseph Andrews) | 1 |
| Joseph Andrews (1742) | 1 |
| Joseph Andrews (1977 film) | 1 |
| Joseph Andrews (fictional character) | 1 |
| Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding | 1 |
| Joseph Andrews universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438135 — 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: Joseph Andrews Context triple: [Augustan literature, notableWork, Joseph Andrews]
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A.
Ephraim Chambers
Ephraim Chambers was an English writer and encyclopedist best known for compiling the influential early 18th-century reference work "Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences."
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B.
Uncle Fred
Uncle Fred is a mischievous, quick-witted aristocrat and recurring comic hero in P. G. Wodehouse’s humorous stories.
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C.
Squire Bracebridge
Squire Bracebridge is a jovial, old-fashioned English country gentleman featured in Washington Irving’s "Bracebridge Hall," known for his hospitality and love of traditional customs.
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D.
Jack Sprat
"Jack Sprat" is an English nursery rhyme character best known for the verse about a man who could eat no fat and his wife who could eat no lean.
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E.
Pepys
Pepys is a notable English surname most famously associated with Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century diarist and naval administrator.
- 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: Joseph Andrews Target entity description: Joseph Andrews is a comic novel by Henry Fielding that parodies the sentimental fiction of its time and is considered a foundational work of the English realistic novel.
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A.
Ephraim Chambers
Ephraim Chambers was an English writer and encyclopedist best known for compiling the influential early 18th-century reference work "Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences."
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B.
Uncle Fred
Uncle Fred is a mischievous, quick-witted aristocrat and recurring comic hero in P. G. Wodehouse’s humorous stories.
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C.
Squire Bracebridge
Squire Bracebridge is a jovial, old-fashioned English country gentleman featured in Washington Irving’s "Bracebridge Hall," known for his hospitality and love of traditional customs.
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D.
Jack Sprat
"Jack Sprat" is an English nursery rhyme character best known for the verse about a man who could eat no fat and his wife who could eat no lean.
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E.
Pepys
Pepys is a notable English surname most famously associated with Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century diarist and naval administrator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Joseph Andrews Description of subject: Joseph Andrews is a comic novel by Henry Fielding that parodies the sentimental fiction of its time and is considered a foundational work of the English realistic novel.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Joseph Andrews
linked to: Joseph Andrews
subject linked to:
Sharpham, Somerset, England
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Book II
linked to: Joseph Andrews
subject linked to:
Book II
subject linked to:
Book II
linked to: Joseph Andrews
subject linked to:
Book II
linked to: Joseph Andrews
subject linked to:
Book II
subject linked to:
Book III
linked to: Joseph Andrews
subject linked to:
Book III
linked to: Joseph Andrews