Sowing
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Sowing is the first book of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times," introducing the characters and themes through its focus on the planting of ideas and values that will later bear consequences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sowing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11822692 — 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: Sowing Context triple: [Hard Times, bookTitle, Sowing]
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A.
Tilling
Tilling is the fictional seaside town in E.F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" novels, known for its satirical portrayal of upper-middle-class social rivalries.
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B.
The Sower
The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.
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C.
The Sower
The Sower is a prominent bronze statue symbolizing agriculture and human labor that crowns the tower of the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln.
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D.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
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E.
Harvest
"Harvest" is a medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that follows a young surgical resident who uncovers a deadly black-market organ trafficking scheme.
- 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: Sowing Target entity description: Sowing is the first book of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times," introducing the characters and themes through its focus on the planting of ideas and values that will later bear consequences.
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A.
Tilling
Tilling is the fictional seaside town in E.F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" novels, known for its satirical portrayal of upper-middle-class social rivalries.
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B.
The Sower
The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.
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C.
The Sower
The Sower is a prominent bronze statue symbolizing agriculture and human labor that crowns the tower of the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln.
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D.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
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E.
Harvest
"Harvest" is a medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that follows a young surgical resident who uncovers a deadly black-market organ trafficking scheme.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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part of novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serial fiction ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Gradgrind educational philosophy
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contrast between fact and fancy ⓘ formation of children’s characters ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Garnering
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Reaping ⓘ |
| followsInStructure | opening section of Hard Times ⓘ |
| genre |
Victorian novel section
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social problem fiction ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | agricultural metaphor of sowing and reaping ⓘ |
| introduces |
Coketown
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Josiah Bounderby ⓘ Louisa Gradgrind ⓘ Sissy Jupe ⓘ Thomas Gradgrind ⓘ Tom Gradgrind Jr. ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryWorkType | first book of a three-part novel ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| metaphorFor |
implanting of values
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planting of ideas ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
character introduction
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exposition ⓘ thematic establishment ⓘ |
| partOf | Hard Times ⓘ |
| publicationContext | originally serialized as part of Hard Times in Household Words ⓘ |
| setsUp | later moral consequences in Hard Times ⓘ |
| setting |
Coketown, an industrial city
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linked to:
Coketown
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| theme |
class division
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consequences of ideology ⓘ education based on facts ⓘ emotional repression ⓘ industrialization ⓘ utilitarianism ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | Victorian era ⓘ |
| workContainedIn | Hard Times: For These Times ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sowing Description of subject: Sowing is the first book of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times," introducing the characters and themes through its focus on the planting of ideas and values that will later bear consequences.
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