The Cut-Glass Bowl
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The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of materialism, marital strain, and the unintended consequences of seemingly glamorous possessions in early 20th-century American society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cut-Glass Bowl canonical | 1 |
| The Cut‑Glass Bowl | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912654 — 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 Cut-Glass Bowl Context triple: [Flappers and Philosophers, hasPart, The Cut-Glass Bowl]
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A.
The World of Glass
The World of Glass is a museum and visitor attraction in St Helens, England, dedicated to the history, science, and art of glassmaking.
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B.
The Broken Jug
The Broken Jug is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting a young girl with a broken water jug as a moralizing allegory of lost innocence.
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C.
The Silver Tureen
The Silver Tureen is an 18th-century still-life painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, celebrated for its subtle realism, refined composition, and masterful rendering of everyday objects.
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D.
The Parlour
The Parlour is an ice cream-focused café and dessert parlour located within the luxury London department store Fortnum & Mason.
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E.
The Dyer's Hand
The Dyer's Hand is a collection of essays and lectures by poet W. H. Auden that reflects on poetry, art, and criticism with his characteristic wit and intellectual rigor.
- 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 Cut-Glass Bowl Target entity description: The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of materialism, marital strain, and the unintended consequences of seemingly glamorous possessions in early 20th-century American society.
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A.
The World of Glass
The World of Glass is a museum and visitor attraction in St Helens, England, dedicated to the history, science, and art of glassmaking.
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B.
The Broken Jug
The Broken Jug is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting a young girl with a broken water jug as a moralizing allegory of lost innocence.
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C.
The Silver Tureen
The Silver Tureen is an 18th-century still-life painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, celebrated for its subtle realism, refined composition, and masterful rendering of everyday objects.
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D.
The Parlour
The Parlour is an ice cream-focused café and dessert parlour located within the luxury London department store Fortnum & Mason.
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E.
The Dyer's Hand
The Dyer's Hand is a collection of essays and lectures by poet W. H. Auden that reflects on poetry, art, and criticism with his characteristic wit and intellectual rigor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| centralSymbol | cut-glass bowl ⓘ |
| character |
Evangeline Piper
ⓘ
Frederick Piper ⓘ Harold Piper ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts |
American domestic life
ⓘ
emotional alienation in marriage ⓘ social climbing ⓘ |
| explores |
consequences of infidelity
ⓘ
social expectations in marriage ⓘ tension between appearance and reality ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Scribner’s Magazine
ⓘ
linked to:
Scribner's Magazine
|
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryDevice |
foreshadowing
ⓘ
irony ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| hasObjectInTitle |
bowl
ⓘ
cut glass ⓘ |
| hasTone |
ironic
ⓘ
tragic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American modernism
ⓘ
Jazz Age literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
American upper-middle-class life
ⓘ
marital strain ⓘ materialism ⓘ unintended consequences ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| partOf | F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short fiction corpus ⓘ |
| protagonist | Evangeline Piper ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
emotional emptiness
ⓘ
hollowness of material wealth ⓘ social pretension ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | pre-World War I era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Cut-Glass Bowl Description of subject: The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of materialism, marital strain, and the unintended consequences of seemingly glamorous possessions in early 20th-century American society.
Referenced by (2)
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linked to: The Cut-Glass Bowl