The First Stone
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The First Stone is a controversial non-fiction book by Australian writer Helen Garner that examines a 1990s sexual harassment case at an elite Melbourne university college and sparked intense public debate about feminism and victimhood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The First Stone canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1660623 — 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 First Stone Context triple: [Helen Garner, notableWork, The First Stone]
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Shadows on the Rock
Shadows on the Rock is a historical novel by Willa Cather set in 17th-century Quebec, exploring themes of faith, community, and cultural identity in the French colonial world.
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One Stone
"One Stone" is a music release by the American Christian rock band Culture, recognized as a key work in their discography.
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C.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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D.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
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E.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
- 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 First Stone Target entity description: The First Stone is a controversial non-fiction book by Australian writer Helen Garner that examines a 1990s sexual harassment case at an elite Melbourne university college and sparked intense public debate about feminism and victimhood.
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A.
Shadows on the Rock
Shadows on the Rock is a historical novel by Willa Cather set in 17th-century Quebec, exploring themes of faith, community, and cultural identity in the French colonial world.
-
B.
One Stone
"One Stone" is a music release by the American Christian rock band Culture, recognized as a key work in their discography.
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C.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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D.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
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E.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| addresses |
generational divisions within feminism
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legal responses to sexual harassment ⓘ media representation of sexual harassment cases ⓘ |
| author | Helen Garner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | Australia ⓘ |
| examines | a sexual harassment case at an elite Melbourne university college ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
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non-fiction ⓘ true crime ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Australian ⓘ |
| hasFormat | print ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780330356552 ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | Helen Garner's personal viewpoint ⓘ |
| hasReception |
highly controversial in Australian public discourse
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polarised responses from feminist commentators ⓘ significant media attention in Australia ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates about feminism in 1990s Australia
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public discussion of victimhood narratives ⓘ |
| involves | allegations against the master of Ormond College ⓘ |
| literaryForm | narrative non-fiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
feminism
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gender politics ⓘ sexual harassment ⓘ university culture ⓘ victimhood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy
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discussion of sexual harassment in universities ⓘ public debate about feminism in Australia ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher | Picador ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| setting |
Melbourne
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Ormond College, University of Melbourne ⓘ |
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 First Stone Description of subject: The First Stone is a controversial non-fiction book by Australian writer Helen Garner that examines a 1990s sexual harassment case at an elite Melbourne university college and sparked intense public debate about feminism and victimhood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.