Paul Ferroll: A Tale
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"Paul Ferroll: A Tale" is a mid-19th-century psychological and crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its exploration of a seemingly respectable man's concealed guilt and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Ferroll: A Tale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4042661 — 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: Paul Ferroll: A Tale Context triple: [Caroline Clive, notableWork, Paul Ferroll: A Tale]
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A.
Glenarvon
Glenarvon is a scandalous 1816 Gothic political novel by Lady Caroline Lamb, best known for its thinly veiled and unflattering portrayal of her former lover Lord Byron and high society.
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B.
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.
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C.
The Ghost in the Mill
"The Ghost in the Mill" is a short ghost story by Harriet Beecher Stowe that blends New England folklore with moral and religious themes.
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D.
The Maid of the Oaks
The Maid of the Oaks is an 18th-century comedic play by British general and playwright John Burgoyne, originally written to celebrate a high-society wedding and later adapted for the London stage.
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E.
The Spoils
The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
- 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: Paul Ferroll: A Tale Target entity description: "Paul Ferroll: A Tale" is a mid-19th-century psychological and crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its exploration of a seemingly respectable man's concealed guilt and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Glenarvon
Glenarvon is a scandalous 1816 Gothic political novel by Lady Caroline Lamb, best known for its thinly veiled and unflattering portrayal of her former lover Lord Byron and high society.
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B.
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.
-
C.
The Ghost in the Mill
"The Ghost in the Mill" is a short ghost story by Harriet Beecher Stowe that blends New England folklore with moral and religious themes.
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D.
The Maid of the Oaks
The Maid of the Oaks is an 18th-century comedic play by British general and playwright John Burgoyne, originally written to celebrate a high-society wedding and later adapted for the London stage.
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E.
The Spoils
The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| author | Caroline Clive ⓘ |
| centuryOfPublication | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| form | prose fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
Victorian literature
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crime fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistTrait |
inner moral conflict
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outward respectability ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conscience
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crime and punishment ⓘ guilt ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ respectability and hypocrisy ⓘ social reputation ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Paul Ferroll ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
concealed guilt
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moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of psychological crime fiction
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exploration of a respectable man's hidden crime ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th 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: Paul Ferroll: A Tale Description of subject: "Paul Ferroll: A Tale" is a mid-19th-century psychological and crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its exploration of a seemingly respectable man's concealed guilt and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.