The Bear
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"The Bear" is a renowned short story by William Faulkner, often celebrated as a centerpiece of his Yoknapatawpha County saga and a classic of American Southern literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bear canonical | 7 |
| Der Bärenhäuter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532211 — 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 Bear Context triple: [Go Down, Moses, hasPart, The Bear]
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A.
The Bear
The Bear is a 1988 French adventure drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud that follows the journey of an orphaned bear cub in the wild.
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B.
Two Lovers and a Bear
Two Lovers and a Bear is a Canadian romantic drama film set in a remote Arctic town, following two troubled lovers seeking escape and emotional healing amid the harsh northern landscape.
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C.
Coal the Bear
Coal the Bear is a fictional bear character, likely from a children’s story or animated series, known for appearing alongside the character Copper.
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D.
Le Blaireau
Le Blaireau is the famous nickname of Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist and multiple Tour de France winner.
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E.
The Nine Bears
The Nine Bears is a crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, featuring one of his characteristic fast-paced mystery plots involving high-stakes intrigue and investigation.
- 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 Bear Target entity description: "The Bear" is a renowned short story by William Faulkner, often celebrated as a centerpiece of his Yoknapatawpha County saga and a classic of American Southern literature.
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A.
The Bear
The Bear is a 1988 French adventure drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud that follows the journey of an orphaned bear cub in the wild.
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B.
Two Lovers and a Bear
Two Lovers and a Bear is a Canadian romantic drama film set in a remote Arctic town, following two troubled lovers seeking escape and emotional healing amid the harsh northern landscape.
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C.
Coal the Bear
Coal the Bear is a fictional bear character, likely from a children’s story or animated series, known for appearing alongside the character Copper.
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D.
Le Blaireau
Le Blaireau is the famous nickname of Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist and multiple Tour de France winner.
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E.
The Nine Bears
The Nine Bears is a crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, featuring one of his characteristic fast-paced mystery plots involving high-stakes intrigue and investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern Gothic literature
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short story ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| centralSymbol | Old Ben ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Southern history and guilt
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loss of wilderness ⓘ man versus nature ⓘ the legacy of slavery ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
inheritance and land ownership
ⓘ
initiation and coming of age ⓘ wilderness versus civilization ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| firstPublicationYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern literature
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modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasForm | multi-part narrative ⓘ |
| hasSection | extended fourth section on land and inheritance ⓘ |
| hasSettingElement |
big woods
ⓘ
plantation lands ⓘ |
| includedIn | many American literature anthologies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Boone Hogganbeck
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Isaac McCaslin ⓘ Major de Spain ⓘ Sam Fathers ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex narrative structure
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depiction of hunting rituals ⓘ exploration of racial relations in the American South ⓘ long, syntactically complex sentences ⓘ use of stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| partOf | Go Down, Moses ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Yoknapatawpha County saga
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linked to:
Yoknapatawpha saga
|
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic of American literature
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major work in Faulkner’s canon ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Go Down, Moses
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other Yoknapatawpha County stories by William Faulkner ⓘ |
| setIn |
Mississippi
ⓘ
Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Bear Description of subject: "The Bear" is a renowned short story by William Faulkner, often celebrated as a centerpiece of his Yoknapatawpha County saga and a classic of American Southern literature.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Bear