Surfacing
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Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surfacing canonical | 8 |
| Diving Deep and Surfacing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T161972 — 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: Surfacing Context triple: [Margaret Atwood, notableWork, Surfacing]
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A.
As He Saw It
"As He Saw It" is a memoir by Elliott Roosevelt that offers an insider’s account of his father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s views and experiences during World War II.
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B.
Paradise
"Paradise" is a 1997 novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison that explores race, gender, community, and violence in an all-Black town in Oklahoma.
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C.
Surface
Surface is Microsoft's line of touchscreen-based personal computing devices, including laptops, tablets, and 2-in-1 hybrids.
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D.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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E.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
- 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: Surfacing Target entity description: Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
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A.
As He Saw It
"As He Saw It" is a memoir by Elliott Roosevelt that offers an insider’s account of his father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s views and experiences during World War II.
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B.
Paradise
"Paradise" is a 1997 novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison that explores race, gender, community, and violence in an all-Black town in Oklahoma.
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C.
Surface
Surface is Microsoft's line of touchscreen-based personal computing devices, including laptops, tablets, and 2-in-1 hybrids.
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D.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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E.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| centralPlotElement | search for missing father ⓘ |
| containsSymbol |
animals
ⓘ
water ⓘ wilderness ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| followedBy | Lady Oracle ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental fiction
ⓘ
feminist literature ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Anna
ⓘ
David ⓘ Joe ⓘ unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| hasPart |
confrontation with personal trauma
ⓘ
flashbacks to narrator’s past ⓘ hallucinatory or visionary sequences ⓘ trip to remote island ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Canadian national identity
ⓘ
abortion ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ media and exploitation ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Canadian literature
ⓘ
second-wave feminism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | key early work in Margaret Atwood’s career ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | unnamed female narrator ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of female subjectivity
ⓘ
integration of psychological and environmental concerns ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Edible Woman ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| publisher | McClelland and Stewart ⓘ |
| setting | rural Quebec ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
colonialism and cultural oppression ⓘ environmentalism ⓘ feminism ⓘ gender relations ⓘ identity ⓘ madness and sanity ⓘ relationship between humans and nature ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Surfacing Description of subject: Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Surfacing