The Bread-Winners
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The Bread-Winners is an 1883 anti-labor novel by American author and statesman John Hay that satirizes labor unions and class conflict in post–Civil War industrial America.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Bread-Winners canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4333227 — 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 Bread-Winners Context triple: [John Hay, notableWork, The Bread-Winners]
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A.
Strength to Love
Strength to Love is a collection of sermons and essays by Martin Luther King Jr. that explores Christian theology, nonviolence, and the moral foundations of the civil rights movement.
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B.
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is a late-1940s American radio sitcom starring Lucille Ball that served as a precursor to and inspiration for the television series I Love Lucy.
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C.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Small Woman
The Small Woman is a 1957 biographical book by Alan Burgess that recounts the life and missionary work of British evangelist Gladys Aylward in China.
- 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 Bread-Winners Target entity description: The Bread-Winners is an 1883 anti-labor novel by American author and statesman John Hay that satirizes labor unions and class conflict in post–Civil War industrial America.
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A.
Strength to Love
Strength to Love is a collection of sermons and essays by Martin Luther King Jr. that explores Christian theology, nonviolence, and the moral foundations of the civil rights movement.
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B.
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is a late-1940s American radio sitcom starring Lucille Ball that served as a precursor to and inspiration for the television series I Love Lucy.
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C.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Small Woman
The Small Woman is a 1957 biographical book by Alan Burgess that recounts the life and missionary work of British evangelist Gladys Aylward in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-labor novel
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novel ⓘ |
| anonymouslyPublished | true ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Gilded Age conservatism ⓘ |
| author | John Hay ⓘ |
| controversial | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
conflict between workers and employers
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labor strikes ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | serial publication ⓘ |
| genre |
political fiction
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satire ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | novel-length work ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | statesman ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasIdeology |
anti-socialist
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pro-capitalist ⓘ |
| hasMoralPerspective |
supportive of property-owning classes
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suspicious of organized labor ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalContent | true ⓘ |
| hasPublicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Gilded Age United States
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linked to:
Gilded Age
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| influencedBy | post–Civil War labor unrest in the United States ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class conflict
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labor unions ⓘ post–Civil War industrial America ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of working-class activism
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hostile portrayal of labor organizing ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | anti-labor ⓘ |
| publicationType | newspaper serial ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| reflectsViewpointOf | conservative elites of the Gilded Age ⓘ |
| satirizes |
class conflict
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labor unions ⓘ organized labor ⓘ |
| setInContext | industrialization in the United States ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post–Civil War era ⓘ |
| targetAudience | middle-class and upper-class readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfWork | 19th century ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: The Bread-Winners Description of subject: The Bread-Winners is an 1883 anti-labor novel by American author and statesman John Hay that satirizes labor unions and class conflict in post–Civil War industrial America.
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