The Idler
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The Idler is a series of essays by Samuel Johnson, published in the mid-18th century, known for its moral reflection, social commentary, and character sketches in a lighter, more accessible style than some of his other works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Idler canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2525236 — 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 Idler Context triple: [Samuel Johnson, notableWork, The Idler]
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A.
The Idler Wheel...
The Idler Wheel... is Fiona Apple's critically acclaimed 2012 studio album known for its raw, percussive sound and intensely personal, experimental songwriting.
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B.
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is a satirical prose work collaboratively written by members of the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, parodying pedantry and false learning through the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus.
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C.
The Tea-Table Miscellany
The Tea-Table Miscellany is an influential early 18th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads that helped popularize vernacular Scots literature.
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D.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker is a posthumously published autobiographical and philosophical work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composed as a series of meditative walks reflecting on his life, society, and nature.
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E.
A Rill from the Town-Pump
"A Rill from the Town-Pump" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that personifies a village water pump to reflect on community life and moral themes.
- 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 Idler Target entity description: The Idler is a series of essays by Samuel Johnson, published in the mid-18th century, known for its moral reflection, social commentary, and character sketches in a lighter, more accessible style than some of his other works.
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A.
The Idler Wheel...
The Idler Wheel... is Fiona Apple's critically acclaimed 2012 studio album known for its raw, percussive sound and intensely personal, experimental songwriting.
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B.
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is a satirical prose work collaboratively written by members of the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, parodying pedantry and false learning through the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus.
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C.
The Tea-Table Miscellany
The Tea-Table Miscellany is an influential early 18th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads that helped popularize vernacular Scots literature.
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D.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker is a posthumously published autobiographical and philosophical work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composed as a series of meditative walks reflecting on his life, society, and nature.
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E.
A Rill from the Town-Pump
"A Rill from the Town-Pump" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that personifies a village water pump to reflect on community life and moral themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Idler Description of subject: The Idler is a series of essays by Samuel Johnson, published in the mid-18th century, known for its moral reflection, social commentary, and character sketches in a lighter, more accessible style than some of his other works.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.