The Trial of Abigail Goodman
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The Trial of Abigail Goodman is a novel by American writer Howard Fast that explores themes of political persecution and civil liberties in mid-20th-century America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Trial of Abigail Goodman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8135427 — 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 Trial of Abigail Goodman Context triple: [Howard Fast, notableWork, The Trial of Abigail Goodman]
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A.
The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1927 American courtroom drama film, notable as an early sound-era legal thriller.
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B.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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C.
The Widow’s Trial
The Widow’s Trial is a novel by American author John Ehle, known for its richly drawn characters and exploration of moral and social tensions in a Southern Appalachian setting.
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D.
The People vs. Jean Harris
The People vs. Jean Harris is a 1981 television drama film that dramatizes the real-life murder trial of Jean Harris, with Ellen Burstyn portraying the title character.
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E.
Ermine Cowles Case
Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
- 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 Trial of Abigail Goodman Target entity description: The Trial of Abigail Goodman is a novel by American writer Howard Fast that explores themes of political persecution and civil liberties in mid-20th-century America.
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A.
The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1927 American courtroom drama film, notable as an early sound-era legal thriller.
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B.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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C.
The Widow’s Trial
The Widow’s Trial is a novel by American author John Ehle, known for its richly drawn characters and exploration of moral and social tensions in a Southern Appalachian setting.
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D.
The People vs. Jean Harris
The People vs. Jean Harris is a 1981 television drama film that dramatizes the real-life murder trial of Jean Harris, with Ellen Burstyn portraying the title character.
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E.
Ermine Cowles Case
Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Howard Fast ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| explores |
abuse of state power
ⓘ
freedom of expression ⓘ individual rights ⓘ political repression ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | work of fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
political novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Abigail Goodman ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
civil liberties
ⓘ
justice ⓘ political persecution ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | trial proceedings ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | mid-20th-century America ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | civil rights in the United States ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Howard Fast ⓘ |
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 Trial of Abigail Goodman Description of subject: The Trial of Abigail Goodman is a novel by American writer Howard Fast that explores themes of political persecution and civil liberties in mid-20th-century America.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.