The Wife’s Tale
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"The Wife’s Tale" is a narrative poem by Seamus Heaney that portrays a farm wife’s perspective on rural labor, gender roles, and quiet marital estrangement in the Irish countryside.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wife’s Tale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5698173 — 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 Wife’s Tale Context triple: [Door into the Dark, containsPoem, The Wife’s Tale]
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A.
The Wife’s Secret
The Wife’s Secret is a psychological suspense novel by British author Caroline England that explores hidden pasts and buried family secrets.
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B.
A Woman’s Tale
A Woman’s Tale is a 1991 Australian drama film by director Paul Cox that poignantly portrays the final days and emotional resilience of an elderly woman facing terminal illness.
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C.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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D.
The Wife
"The Wife" is an 1887 stage drama by American playwright Henry Churchill DeMille that explores marriage, social reputation, and moral conflict in upper-class society.
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E.
The Old Wives’ Tale
The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.
- 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 Wife’s Tale Target entity description: "The Wife’s Tale" is a narrative poem by Seamus Heaney that portrays a farm wife’s perspective on rural labor, gender roles, and quiet marital estrangement in the Irish countryside.
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A.
The Wife’s Secret
The Wife’s Secret is a psychological suspense novel by British author Caroline England that explores hidden pasts and buried family secrets.
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B.
A Woman’s Tale
A Woman’s Tale is a 1991 Australian drama film by director Paul Cox that poignantly portrays the final days and emotional resilience of an elderly woman facing terminal illness.
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C.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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D.
The Wife
"The Wife" is an 1887 stage drama by American playwright Henry Churchill DeMille that explores marriage, social reputation, and moral conflict in upper-class society.
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E.
The Old Wives’ Tale
The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
| depicts |
a visit by the wife to the harvest field
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the wife returning home alone ⓘ |
| explores |
emotional unfulfillment
ⓘ
women’s marginalization in rural communities ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
a farm wife’s perspective
ⓘ
harvest work ⓘ |
| genre |
narrative poetry
ⓘ
pastoral poetry ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
everyday domestic routine
ⓘ
women’s experience in rural Ireland ⓘ |
| hasTone |
melancholic
ⓘ
quiet ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary Irish poetry ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | a farm wife ⓘ |
| partOf | Seamus Heaney’s body of work ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| portrays |
emotional distance in marriage
ⓘ
gendered division of labor ⓘ male farm workers at harvest ⓘ rural labor ⓘ the wife’s exclusion from male social space ⓘ |
| setting |
Irish countryside
ⓘ
a farm ⓘ |
| theme |
class and social hierarchy
ⓘ
domestic work ⓘ gender roles ⓘ isolation ⓘ marital estrangement ⓘ marriage ⓘ rural labor ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| uses |
colloquial speech
ⓘ
rural imagery ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Wife’s Tale Description of subject: "The Wife’s Tale" is a narrative poem by Seamus Heaney that portrays a farm wife’s perspective on rural labor, gender roles, and quiet marital estrangement in the Irish countryside.
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