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The Lady, or the Tiger?
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"The Lady, or the Tiger?" is an 1882 short story by Frank Stockton.In an ancient, semi-barbaric kingdom, the king has established a unique method to try particularly significant criminals. The accused is brought into the king's arena, facing two identical, soundproofed doors. He then must choose his own verdict by opening one of them: behind one door lurks a hungry tiger which will kill him as punishment for his guilt, but behind the other is a desirable woman who will immediately become his wife as a reward for his innocence. No one watching knows which door leads to which, so the defendant's fate is entirely up to chance, and the trials make for thrilling public entertainment as well.During one such trial, the defendant is a man who had the audacity to court the king's favorite daughter. She has bribed the guards and learned which door leads to the lady and which to the tiger. As the man enters the arena, the princess has an opportunity to guide him to life or death, but which does she choose? The story leaves the answer up to the reader.Stockton wrote a sequel, "The Discourager of Hesitancy," in which a troupe of officials from another kingdom come to learn the defendant's fate. They receive in return another story about a young man who came to court seeking a wife — he was blindfolded and married nearly on the spot and then asked to pick out his new wife from among a line of women. After some pressure from the titular Discourager (a servant of the king with a Sinister Scimitar), he chose correctly. The storyteller promises to reveal the ending if the officials can tell him how he identified his bride; as far as we know, they're still thinking about it. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The last line of the story. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: The king loves his daughter more than anything else, at least in part because she's most like him in temperament. (Not enough to stop him from throwing her boyfriend to a tiger, mind you...) | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Anyone who picks the wrong door is torn to pieces by a tiger. | |
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All Crimes Are Equal | |
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All Crimes Are Equal: Zigzagged. The story is clear that only a crime which is significant enough to interest the king gets tried in the arena, so lesser matters presumably get settled elsewhere. However, anyone who does wind up in the arena has a 50% chance of meeting a horrible death, no matter what he allegedly did. | |
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Ancient Grome | |
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Ancient Grome: Subverted. The central kingdom and the Roman Empire are contemporaries, and the king has raised himself to semi-barbarian by adopting some Roman ideas, but he's twisted them to fit his own fancy. | |
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Failed a Spot Check | |
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Failed a Spot Check: The audience at the trial is so focused on the defendant that they don't notice the princess giving a subtle but unambiguous signal to him. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: The crowd seem saddened when they see what a bright, handsome man is up for execution for the crime of being the princess's lover. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: Pretty much everything the king does, but particularly his trial system, which requires finding a suitable woman for every defendant, having an entire wedding procession on standby for a Not Guilty verdict, plus having a team to wrangle a fierce and hungry tiger in the event of a Guilty verdict. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: As the story points out from very early on, the cruel and selfish king gets his way no matter what happens: either he gets to see the guy whose only crime was dating his daughter without his permission torn apart, or married off to someone else, and thus no longer something he has to care about. | |
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Paralysis by Analysis | |
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Paralysis by Analysis: The prince nearly succumbs to this repeatedly until urged on by the Discourager. At the end of the story, the officials are similarly unable to decide. Since the prince correctly chooses his bride when the Discourager is inches from taking his head off, Stockton seems to be saying that the "answer" to both stories is whichever seems most obvious to the reader, so don't overthink it. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: No matter what the princess chooses, she'll lose her man. The only question is whether she'd rather lose him to the claws of a tiger or the arms of another woman. | |
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The Caligula | |
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The Caligula: In addition to the king setting up a barbaric system for punishing criminals, he's also said to talk to himself. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The Discourager of Hesitancy — the servant whose job is to "ensure" prompt compliance with the king's orders — is soft-spoken, gracious, and polite at all times. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: The story doesn't tell us just what the princess has sent her lover to. | |
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Forced to Watch | |
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Forced to Watch: Subverted. The princess is not under any external pressure to attend the trial: the narrative even tells us that a less-barbarian woman wouldn't even have been there. However, if she wants to control the outcome, she has no choice but to attend — and that will mean witnessing the agonizing result of her decision. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: If the princess guides the man to the lady, she sends him into the arms of another woman — a woman who desires him, and it might be mutual — to save his life. | |
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Panthera Awesome | |
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Panthera Awesome: Not that it's particularly awesome for any poor schmuck who meets the tiger, but the story plays up the strength and savagery of the beast and makes it clear that the lover is doomed if the princess sends him to the wrong door. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: The officials come to the kingdom because another man from their country had suffered a failure of nerve and fled just before the defendant opened the door. But in the original story, there is an obvious reaction from the crowd at every trial — happy bells and cheering for the lady, sad bells and wails for the tiger — that would have told him without seeing it what the man's fate had been. | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
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If I Can't Have You…: If the princess guides the man to the tiger, she sends him to a horrible death rather than see him with another. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: The king is passionate, decisive, and cruel... and his daughter, whom he loves best, is just like him. The narrator makes sure that we know this, if only to remind us that she could and would choose to send her lover to the tiger. | |
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The Power of Hate | |
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The Power of Hate: The princess hates the lady who will get her lover if he opens her door. She despises the woman so deeply and intensely that it might give her the strength to send him to the other door. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: The princess genuinely loves the man. She can't bear to send him to the tiger. But that same strength of love makes her equally unable to bear the idea of seeing him marry someone else. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: The tone of the story is fairly detached and sardonic, especially at the beginning | |
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Parental Marriage Veto | |
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Parental Marriage Veto: Whether or not the lover thought he could actually marry the princess, her father promptly ensures that he never will, either because he's been married off to someone else or because he's been eaten by a tiger. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: The threat the Discourager poses to those who seem reluctant to do whatever the King tells them to do. | |
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Aroused by Their Voice | |
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Aroused by Their Voice: The prince doesn't hesitate to say his vows to his unseen bride after feeling the softness of her hand and hearing the sweetness of her voice. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_870bbf64 | type |
Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: The story relies very heavily on telling, since it's entirely told by the third person narrator, and adds to the ambiguity regarding certain characters' actions and motives, while ultimately letting readers come to their own conclusion as to what the princess decided. | |
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Nameless Narrative | |
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Nameless Narrative: Everyone is described by role. Even the Discourager is merely called by his title. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: Defied — the princess's only choices are to watch her lover die or watch him marry someone else. Given that Stockton's point was to make the reader confront the choice, this is deliberate. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_96a33f11 | type |
Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: What was on the other side of the door? | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
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Luck-Based Mission: The trials. They're fair and impartial in the sense that the outcome isn't predetermined and everyone has a 50% chance at acquittal, but they're utterly unfair in terms of punishing wrongdoing or rewarding virtue. | |
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Judge, Jury, and Executioner | |
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Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Subverted. The king's authority is complete; he could condemn anyone to death at any time, for any reason. Nevertheless, he leaves the final verdict and sentencing up to chance, and no one has grounds to complain. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_aabe2fb | type |
Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The society portrayed in the story has a justice system that is utterly alien to any modern society. This is driven home by the narrator calling the kingdom "semi-barbaric." | |
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Held Gaze | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_abdc0b3f | comment |
Held Gaze: When the lover enters the arena, he and princess lock eyes. Such is their bond that he knows immediately that she can save him, and she knows he's asking which door to open. She even knew ahead of time that he would ask, which makes the decision to send him to the tiger — if that is her decision — particularly cruel. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: The chosen lady for this trial also has her eye on the defendant — or at least, the princess thinks she does — and she also thinks her lover might return her interest. As much as she wants to save him from the tiger, sending him to the lady would be just as painful. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_babc974 | type |
Sadistic Choice | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_babc974 | comment |
Sadistic Choice: The princess must choose between watching her lover die or seeing him marry someone else. | |
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Everything but the Girl | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_bba00564 | comment |
Everything but the Girl: If the lover opens the correct door, he will be acquitted, freed, and married off in great joy to a woman just as lovely as the princess (and one that he might already take an interest in) but he won't get the princess. The twist is that this can only happen if the princess decides to let it happen — and she could send him to his death instead and spare herself that humiliation. | |
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Sinister Scimitar | |
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Sinister Scimitar: The Discourager's weapon. | |
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Unwanted Spouse | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c2c92862 | comment |
Unwanted Spouse: The potential result of an 'acquittal' — the King doesn't care whether the defendant loves someone else or already has a wife. If you don't get eaten by the tiger, you get married to the lady, and that's just how it is. | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c2c92862 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c3286b8e | type |
Uptown Girl | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c3286b8e | comment |
Uptown Girl: The man has dared to love far above his station. The rather Lemony Narrator tells us that this sort of cross-status relationship is common now, but at the time it was basically the Ur-Example and no one quite knew what to make of it. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c3286b8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c3286b8e | featureConfidence |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c3286b8e | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c32ff031 | type |
Xanatos Gambit | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c32ff031 | comment |
Xanatos Gambit: The king knows that the young man is guilty of loving his daughter, as does everyone else, but either outcome of the trial will work in his favor. If the man picks the tiger, he'll be killed, but if he picks the lady, he'll be married. Either way, he'll no longer be able to pursue the princess. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c32ff031 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c32ff031 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c32ff031 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c41668cd | type |
Needle in a Stack of Needles | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c41668cd | comment |
Needle in a Stack of Needles: Once married, the prince is shown a line of forty beautiful maidens and is told to take his bride home. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c41668cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c41668cd | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c6c73b3b | type |
Undesirable Prize | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c6c73b3b | comment |
Undesirable Prize: Opening the door to the lady means getting married to her... whether you like it or not. In the case of the central 'defendant' of this story, we don't know whether he had any interest in the woman in question, but there's enough evidence to make the princess suspicious... and jealous. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c6c73b3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c6c73b3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c6c73b3b | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_da38c13f | type |
Lamarck Was Right | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_da38c13f | comment |
Lamarck Was Right: The king is "semi-barbarian" by exposure to Ancient Grome, and his daughter consequently has an unstable blend of 'civilized' and 'barbaric' in her nature. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_da38c13f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_da38c13f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_da38c13f | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_dc0ca62a | type |
Public Execution | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_dc0ca62a | comment |
Public Execution: The outcome of the trial, if the accused is found 'guilty'. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_dc0ca62a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_dc0ca62a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_dc0ca62a | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_e0c00a95 | type |
Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_e0c00a95 | comment |
Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Discourager's scimitar can split a hair, as he helpfully demonstrates when the prince seems to be getting cold feet at his wedding. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_e0c00a95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_e0c00a95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_e0c00a95 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea0a3d | type |
The Tell | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea0a3d | comment |
The Tell: Of the forty maidens, one is smiling and one is frowning. The prince correctly picks one of them as his wife... but we don't know which. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea0a3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea0a3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea0a3d | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea2e9f2d | type |
No Ending | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea2e9f2d | comment |
No Ending: As with the former story, we never learn what we most want to know. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea2e9f2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea2e9f2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea2e9f2d | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_eb5b71fe | type |
Clingy Jealous Girl | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_eb5b71fe | comment |
Clingy Jealous Girl: The princess has shades of this, given how fervently she hates the other woman for seemingly attracting her lover's attention. To make matters worse, she may or may not be right about that. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_eb5b71fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_eb5b71fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_eb5b71fe | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6624c30 | type |
Together in Death | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6624c30 | comment |
Together in Death: One possible reason for having the princess choose the tiger is the belief that she and the man will be reunited in the afterlife. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6624c30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6624c30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6624c30 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6a9024b | type |
Altar the Speed | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6a9024b | comment |
Altar the Speed: The young prince who comes to the kingdom to seek a wife is married off before he even sees his new bride, let alone speaks with her. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6a9024b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6a9024b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_f6a9024b | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_fa675f27 | type |
Door Roulette | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_fa675f27 | comment |
Door Roulette: One of the most famous examples. Opening one door will kill the prisoner, while opening the other will lead to freedom and a reward. | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_fa675f27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_fa675f27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? | hasFeature |
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_fa675f27 | |
| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_name | type |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_name | comment |
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| The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_name | itemName |
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