The Intoxicated
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"The Intoxicated" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of disillusionment and existential dread through a late-night conversation between a drunken man and a disturbingly clear-eyed teenage girl.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Intoxicated canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316946 — 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 Intoxicated Context triple: [The Lottery and Other Stories, hasPart, The Intoxicated]
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A.
Drink on It
"Drink on It" is a country song by American singer Blake Shelton, featured on his 2011 album "Red River Blue" and released as a successful single.
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B.
Dopesick
Dopesick is a drama miniseries that explores the origins and devastating impact of the U.S. opioid crisis, focusing on the roles of pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and law enforcement.
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C.
Drinking at the Dam
"Drinking at the Dam" is a melancholic folk song by Smog (Bill Callahan) known for its sparse instrumentation and reflective, narrative lyrics.
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D.
Drink with the Devil
Drink with the Devil is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives entangled in a deadly plot involving stolen IRA funds and international intrigue.
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E.
Hate Bein' Sober
"Hate Bein' Sober" is a popular hip-hop track by Chief Keef featuring 50 Cent and Wiz Khalifa, known for its hard-hitting production and party-centric, rebellious lyrics.
- 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 Intoxicated Target entity description: "The Intoxicated" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of disillusionment and existential dread through a late-night conversation between a drunken man and a disturbingly clear-eyed teenage girl.
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A.
Drink on It
"Drink on It" is a country song by American singer Blake Shelton, featured on his 2011 album "Red River Blue" and released as a successful single.
-
B.
Dopesick
Dopesick is a drama miniseries that explores the origins and devastating impact of the U.S. opioid crisis, focusing on the roles of pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and law enforcement.
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C.
Drinking at the Dam
"Drinking at the Dam" is a melancholic folk song by Smog (Bill Callahan) known for its sparse instrumentation and reflective, narrative lyrics.
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D.
Drink with the Devil
Drink with the Devil is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives entangled in a deadly plot involving stolen IRA funds and international intrigue.
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E.
Hate Bein' Sober
"Hate Bein' Sober" is a popular hip-hop track by Chief Keef featuring 50 Cent and Wiz Khalifa, known for its hard-hitting production and party-centric, rebellious lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| centralConflict | conversation between a drunken man and a teenage girl ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
existentialism
ⓘ
loss of innocence ⓘ moral decay ⓘ nuclear-age anxiety ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
drunken man
ⓘ
teenage girl ⓘ |
| hasDialogueForm | extended conversation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ short fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
subtle horror
ⓘ
understated prose ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Shirley Jackson short fiction corpus ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | drunkenness ⓘ |
| secondaryCharacterTrait | disturbing clarity ⓘ |
| settingPlace | suburban house ⓘ |
| settingTime | late at night ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
apocalyptic anxiety ⓘ disillusionment ⓘ existential dread ⓘ fear of the future ⓘ generational divide ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly ironic
ⓘ
ominous ⓘ uneasy ⓘ |
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 Intoxicated Description of subject: "The Intoxicated" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of disillusionment and existential dread through a late-night conversation between a drunken man and a disturbingly clear-eyed teenage girl.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
short story collection "The Lottery and Other Stories"