The Battle with the Slum
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The Battle with the Slum is a 1902 book by social reformer Jacob Riis that exposes and critiques the harsh living conditions in New York City’s tenements to advocate for urban and housing reform.
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| The Battle with the Slum canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11513777 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Battle with the Slum Context triple: [Jacob Riis, notableWork, The Battle with the Slum]
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A.
Battle at the Wall
Battle at the Wall is a major large-scale conflict in Game of Thrones where the Night's Watch defends the Wall against a massive wildling assault led by Mance Rayder.
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B.
The Battle
"The Battle" is a 1911 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early war drama in which Linda Arvidson appeared.
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C.
Battle of Unnumbered Tears
The Battle of Unnumbered Tears is a catastrophic and legendary defeat of the Elven and human hosts by Morgoth’s forces in J.R.R. Tolkien’s First Age history of Middle-earth.
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D.
The Battler
The Battler is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows a young drifter’s tense encounter with a mentally unstable ex-boxer beside a Midwestern railroad track.
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E.
The Turmoil
"The Turmoil" is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington that explores industrialization, social change, and family conflict in a rapidly modernizing Midwestern city.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Battle with the Slum Target entity description: The Battle with the Slum is a 1902 book by social reformer Jacob Riis that exposes and critiques the harsh living conditions in New York City’s tenements to advocate for urban and housing reform.
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A.
Battle at the Wall
Battle at the Wall is a major large-scale conflict in Game of Thrones where the Night's Watch defends the Wall against a massive wildling assault led by Mance Rayder.
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B.
The Battle
"The Battle" is a 1911 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early war drama in which Linda Arvidson appeared.
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C.
Battle of Unnumbered Tears
The Battle of Unnumbered Tears is a catastrophic and legendary defeat of the Elven and human hosts by Morgoth’s forces in J.R.R. Tolkien’s First Age history of Middle-earth.
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D.
The Battler
The Battler is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows a young drifter’s tense encounter with a mentally unstable ex-boxer beside a Midwestern railroad track.
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E.
The Turmoil
"The Turmoil" is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington that explores industrialization, social change, and family conflict in a rapidly modernizing Midwestern city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
advocate urban reform
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promote housing reform ⓘ raise public awareness of slum conditions ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
Progressive Era reform
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linked to:
Progressive Era
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| author | Jacob Riis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describes |
charitable and reform efforts
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crime in slum districts ⓘ immigrant communities in New York City ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
child welfare in poor neighborhoods
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overcrowding ⓘ public health in slums ⓘ sanitation problems ⓘ tenement housing conditions ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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social reform literature ⓘ |
| hasContributor | Jacob Riis ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
housing reform movements in the United States
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urban sociology discourse ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general public
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policy makers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Progressive Era literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
New York City tenements
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housing reform ⓘ slums ⓘ social reform ⓘ urban poverty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of tenement life
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influence on housing policy debates ⓘ |
| predecessor | How the Other Half Lives ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1902 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan Company
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linked to:
The Macmillan Company
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| setIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
| sharesAuthorWith | How the Other Half Lives ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
Progressive Era
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| uses |
journalistic narrative
ⓘ
photographs ⓘ |
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Subject: The Battle with the Slum Description of subject: The Battle with the Slum is a 1902 book by social reformer Jacob Riis that exposes and critiques the harsh living conditions in New York City’s tenements to advocate for urban and housing reform.
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