The Ticket-of-Leave Man
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The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a 19th-century melodramatic stage play by Tom Taylor that helped popularize the character of the wrongfully accused ex-convict in Victorian theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ticket-of-Leave Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5904375 — 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 Ticket-of-Leave Man Context triple: [Tom Taylor, notableWork, The Ticket-of-Leave Man]
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The Slave
"The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
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B.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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C.
The Slave
The Slave is a central character in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The Time of the Hero," representing the psychological turmoil and moral conflicts within a Peruvian military academy.
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D.
Parade of the Slave Children
"Parade of the Slave Children" is a musical cue composed by John Williams for the film *Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*, accompanying the sequence of enslaved children being freed.
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E.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
- 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 Ticket-of-Leave Man Target entity description: The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a 19th-century melodramatic stage play by Tom Taylor that helped popularize the character of the wrongfully accused ex-convict in Victorian theatre.
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A.
The Slave
"The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
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B.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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C.
The Slave
The Slave is a central character in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The Time of the Hero," representing the psychological turmoil and moral conflicts within a Peruvian military academy.
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D.
Parade of the Slave Children
"Parade of the Slave Children" is a musical cue composed by John Williams for the film *Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*, accompanying the sequence of enslaved children being freed.
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E.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century play
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melodrama ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ticket-of-leave system in British penal policy ⓘ |
| author | Tom Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | five-act play ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1863 ⓘ |
| firstProducedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| genre | melodrama ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
villainous criminal antagonist
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virtuous heroine ⓘ wrongfully accused ex-convict ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later crime melodramas
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stage portrayals of ex-convict protagonists ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
criminal justice
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redemption ⓘ social stigma ⓘ |
| helpedPopularize | character type of the wrongfully accused ex-convict in Victorian theatre ⓘ |
| historicalContext | 19th-century British legal and penal system ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian drama ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
ex-convict’s social rehabilitation
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wrongful accusation ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor | influencing Victorian stage melodrama conventions ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| period | Victorian theatre ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| writer | Tom Taylor ⓘ |
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: The Ticket-of-Leave Man Description of subject: The Ticket-of-Leave Man is a 19th-century melodramatic stage play by Tom Taylor that helped popularize the character of the wrongfully accused ex-convict in Victorian theatre.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.