The Corner That Held Them
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The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Corner That Held Them canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364113 — 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 Corner That Held Them Context triple: [Sylvia Townsend Warner, notableWork, The Corner That Held Them]
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A.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
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B.
The Corner Man
The Corner Man is a work associated with the historical intelligence unit known as the Cairo Gang, likely depicting or inspired by their covert operations during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
A Night This Side of Dying
"A Night This Side of Dying" is a song by Carole King featured on her 1974 album *Wrap Around Joy*.
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D.
A Small Corner of Hell
A Small Corner of Hell is a non-fiction book by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya that documents human rights abuses and the brutal realities of the Second Chechen War.
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E.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
- 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 Corner That Held Them Target entity description: The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
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A.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
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B.
The Corner Man
The Corner Man is a work associated with the historical intelligence unit known as the Cairo Gang, likely depicting or inspired by their covert operations during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
A Night This Side of Dying
"A Night This Side of Dying" is a song by Carole King featured on her 1974 album *Wrap Around Joy*.
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D.
A Small Corner of Hell
A Small Corner of Hell is a non-fiction book by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya that documents human rights abuses and the brutal realities of the Second Chechen War.
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E.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Sylvia Townsend Warner ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
medieval society
ⓘ
monastic life ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1948-10-21 ⓘ |
| genre |
historical novel
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | female ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9781590179600 ⓘ |
| hasStructure | vignettes ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Corner That Held Them ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacters | nuns of the convent ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | episodic ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | quietly ironic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| publisher | Chatto & Windus ⓘ |
| reissuedBy |
New York Review Books Classics
ⓘ
linked to:
New York Review Books
|
| setting |
English convent
ⓘ
medieval England ⓘ |
| themes |
community
ⓘ
female community ⓘ power and authority ⓘ religious life ⓘ time and change ⓘ |
| timeSpanDepicted | several centuries ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Corner That Held Them Description of subject: The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
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