Book V: The Dead Hand
E310149
Book V: The Dead Hand is a major internal division of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch that advances key plotlines and deepens the psychological and social complexity of the story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Book V: The Dead Hand canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901908 — 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: Book V: The Dead Hand Context triple: [Middlemarch, hasPart, Book V: The Dead Hand]
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A.
The Final Option
The Final Option is a 1982 British political action thriller film about a Special Air Service officer infiltrating a radical anti-nuclear terrorist group.
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B.
The Final Days
The Final Days is a nonfiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that chronicles the tumultuous final months of Richard Nixon’s presidency and the Watergate scandal.
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C.
The Fifth Book of Peace
The Fifth Book of Peace is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston that intertwines memoir, fiction, and meditation on war, loss, and the pursuit of peace.
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D.
Book V
Book V is one of the later sections of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its mock-historical narrative of the early Dutch settlement of the city.
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E.
Book V
Book V is a major section of John Stuart Mill’s "Principles of Political Economy" that focuses on the role and functions of government within an economic system.
- 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: Book V: The Dead Hand Target entity description: Book V: The Dead Hand is a major internal division of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch that advances key plotlines and deepens the psychological and social complexity of the story.
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A.
The Final Option
The Final Option is a 1982 British political action thriller film about a Special Air Service officer infiltrating a radical anti-nuclear terrorist group.
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B.
The Final Days
The Final Days is a nonfiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that chronicles the tumultuous final months of Richard Nixon’s presidency and the Watergate scandal.
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C.
The Fifth Book of Peace
The Fifth Book of Peace is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston that intertwines memoir, fiction, and meditation on war, loss, and the pursuit of peace.
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D.
Book V
Book V is one of the later sections of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its mock-historical narrative of the early Dutch settlement of the city.
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E.
Book V
Book V is a major section of John Stuart Mill’s "Principles of Political Economy" that focuses on the role and functions of government within an economic system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
ⓘ
internal division of a novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
individual morality
ⓘ
marriage ⓘ provincial life in 19th-century England ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| author |
George Eliot
ⓘ
Mary Ann Evans ⓘ
linked to:
George Eliot
|
| belongsToWorkType | English novel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1871–1872 ⓘ |
| genre | realist novel section ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | female ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | part of a canonical English novel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasNarratorType | third-person omniscient ⓘ |
| isMajorDivisionOf | Middlemarch ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
advances key plotlines in Middlemarch
ⓘ
deepens psychological complexity of characters ⓘ develops social complexity of Middlemarch ⓘ |
| originalWork |
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
ⓘ
linked to:
Middlemarch
|
| partOf | Middlemarch ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | serial publication ⓘ |
| setIn | fictional town of Middlemarch ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| title | Book V: The Dead Hand ⓘ |
| workOfFiction | yes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Input
Subject: Book V: The Dead Hand Description of subject: Book V: The Dead Hand is a major internal division of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch that advances key plotlines and deepens the psychological and social complexity of the story.
Referenced by (4)
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