The Mill on the Floss
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The Mill on the Floss is a 1860 novel by George Eliot that follows the tragic lives of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom in a provincial English town, exploring themes of family conflict, social constraints, and personal sacrifice.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mill on the Floss canonical | 24 |
| The Mill on the Floss (1860) | 3 |
| "The Mill on the Floss" | 1 |
| The Mill on the Floss (1936 film) | 1 |
| The Mill on the Floss (novel) | 1 |
| The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505562 — 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 Mill on the Floss Context triple: [George Eliot, notableWork, The Mill on the Floss]
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A.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch is a classic 19th-century English novel renowned for its intricate portrayal of provincial life, complex characters, and exploration of social and moral issues.
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B.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot that tells the story of a reclusive weaver whose life is transformed by the arrival of an orphaned child.
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that highlights notable and anticipated films.
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Howards End
Howards End is a 1992 British period drama film, adapted from E.M. Forster’s novel, that explores class, inheritance, and social change in Edwardian England.
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E.
The Small House at Allington
The Small House at Allington is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope, part of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, exploring love, class, and social ambition in a rural English community.
- 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 Mill on the Floss Target entity description: The Mill on the Floss is a 1860 novel by George Eliot that follows the tragic lives of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom in a provincial English town, exploring themes of family conflict, social constraints, and personal sacrifice.
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A.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch is a classic 19th-century English novel renowned for its intricate portrayal of provincial life, complex characters, and exploration of social and moral issues.
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B.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot that tells the story of a reclusive weaver whose life is transformed by the arrival of an orphaned child.
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C.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that highlights notable and anticipated films.
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D.
Howards End
Howards End is a 1992 British period drama film, adapted from E.M. Forster’s novel, that explores class, inheritance, and social change in Edwardian England.
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E.
The Small House at Allington
The Small House at Allington is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope, part of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, exploring love, class, and social ambition in a rural English community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Mill on the Floss Description of subject: The Mill on the Floss is a 1860 novel by George Eliot that follows the tragic lives of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom in a provincial English town, exploring themes of family conflict, social constraints, and personal sacrifice.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Mill on the Floss
linked to: The Mill on the Floss
linked to: The Mill on the Floss
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the River Floss
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the River Floss
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the River Floss
linked to: The Mill on the Floss
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister
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Maggie Tulliver is romantically involved with Stephen Guest
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Maggie Tulliver is romantically involved with Stephen Guest
linked to: The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss (1978 TV series)
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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linked to: The Mill on the Floss
linked to: The Mill on the Floss