Adultery (short story)
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"Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adultery | 1 |
| Adultery (short story) canonical | 1 |
| Adultery and Other Choices | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3671570 — 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: Adultery (short story) Context triple: [We Don't Live Here Anymore, basedOn, Adultery (short story)]
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A.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a seminal early 20th-century artwork by Marcel Duchamp, often called "The Large Glass," that radically challenged traditional notions of painting and sculpture through its use of glass, chance operations, and conceptual complexity.
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B.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores guilt, jealousy, and obsession through the tense relationship between a widower and his late wife's former lover.
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C.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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D.
The Proposal
The Proposal is a 2009 romantic comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds about a demanding book editor who forces her assistant into a fake engagement to avoid deportation.
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E.
A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.
- 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: Adultery (short story) Target entity description: "Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
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A.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a seminal early 20th-century artwork by Marcel Duchamp, often called "The Large Glass," that radically challenged traditional notions of painting and sculpture through its use of glass, chance operations, and conceptual complexity.
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B.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores guilt, jealousy, and obsession through the tense relationship between a widower and his late wife's former lover.
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C.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
-
D.
The Proposal
The Proposal is a 2009 romantic comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds about a demanding book editor who forces her assistant into a fake engagement to avoid deportation.
-
E.
A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Andre Dubus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Andre Dubus ⓘ |
| depicts | extramarital affair ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
inner lives of characters
ⓘ
psychological realism ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | short narrative ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
adultery
ⓘ
conscience ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ moral choice ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Adultery
ⓘ
linked to:
Adultery (short story)
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
emotional complexity in relationships ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ guilt ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ marriage ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Andre Dubus ⓘ |
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: Adultery (short story) Description of subject: "Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Adultery (short story)
linked to: Adultery (short story)