McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's…
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McTeague topic overview
The analysis highlights Literary Connections, Adaptations and Plot summary as prominent areas in the source structure around McTeague.
Related topics
45
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
49
Extracted relationships
102
Concept neighborhoods
10
Bridge connections
49
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Adaptations · 31 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Background · 3 topics
Plot summary · 3 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Author
Frank Norris
Genre
Naturalism
Publication date
1899
Publisher
Doubleday & McClure
Language
English
Publication place
United States
Suggested research paths
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Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How McTeague connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around McTeague shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, McTeague → Abo, American, Arnold Weinstein, Babaloo Mandel, Bob Balaban, Carol Kane, Christian Ford, Colleen Camp, Corporation, Ed Asner, Ed Begley Jr, Erich, Fania Marinoff, Fox, Greed, Greedy, Hector Elizondo, Holbrook Blinn, In, It Another extracted example is McTeague → Ark, His, In, Mac, Marcus, Marcus Schouler, Marcus's, McTeague's, More, Mrs, Noah's, Polk Street, San Francisco, Secretly, She, Shortly, Sieppe, The, Though, Trina. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
McTeague
Top relations
related to Adaptations· 48
McTeague → Abo, American, Arnold Weinstein, Babaloo Mandel, Bob Balaban, Carol Kane, Christian Ford, Colleen Camp, Corporation, Ed Asner, Ed Begley Jr, Erich, Fania Marinoff, Fox, Greed, Greedy, Hector Elizondo, Holbrook Blinn, In, It
related to Plot summary· 23
McTeague → Ark, His, In, Mac, Marcus, Marcus Schouler, Marcus's, McTeague's, More, Mrs, Noah's, Polk Street, San Francisco, Secretly, She, Shortly, Sieppe, The, Though, Trina
related to background· 14
McTeague → Emile Zola, English Department, Frank Norris, Harvard University, He, In, McTeague's, Mrs Sarah Collins, Norris, Operative Dentistry, San Francisco, Text-book, Thomas Fillebrown's, Trina
related to External links· 11
McTeague → December, Frank NORRIS, Full Audio Book, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Jeff Robinson, LibriVox, LibriVox Audiobooks, Project GutenbergMcTeague, Standard Ebooks, YouTube
Author· 1
McTeague → Frank Norris
Genre· 1
McTeague → Naturalism
Language· 1
McTeague → English
Publication date· 1
McTeague → 1899
Publication place· 1
McTeague → United States
Publisher· 1
McTeague → Doubleday & McClure
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 102 structured relationships around McTeague. Examples in this analysis include McTeague → Author → Frank Norris and McTeague → Genre → Naturalism. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
McTeague
Author
Frank Norris
1.00
infobox
McTeague
Genre
Naturalism
1.00
infobox
McTeague
Language
English
1.00
infobox
McTeague
Publication date
1899
1.00
infobox
McTeague
Publication place
United States
1.00
infobox
McTeague
Publisher
Doubleday & McClure
1.00
infobox
McTeague
related to Adaptations
Life's Whirlpool
0.60
section
McTeague
related to Adaptations
Holbrook Blinn
0.60
section
McTeague
related to Adaptations
Fania Marinoff
0.60
section
McTeague
related to Adaptations
It
0.60
section
McTeague
related to Adaptations
Greed
0.60
section
McTeague
related to Adaptations
Erich
0.60
section
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around McTeague bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Marcus, Trina and Becomes. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
McTeague
Marcus
Trina
Becomes
Francisco
Frank
San
Norris
Book
First
Name
Greed
Novel
mcteague
Marcus
Trina
Becomes
Francisco
Frank
San
Norris
Book
First
Name
Greed
Novel
san francisco
San
Frank
Norris
Simply
First
Novel
English
Known
Place
Story
Book
Name
frank norris
Norris
San
Simply
Book
First
Novel
English
Known
Librivox
Place
Story
Name
greed
Erich
Stroheim's
Von
Jealousy
Basis
Marriage
Story
Book
Name
Film
Mcteague
erich von stroheim
Erich
Stroheim's
Von
Greed
Basis
Book
Film
Mcteague
william bolcom
Bolcom
Opera
William
Basis
Also
Name
Mcteague
lost film
Stroheim's
Von
Greed
Mcteague
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For McTeague, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects McTeague with Adaptations. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
McTeague
Nodes50
Edges49
Triples102
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around McTeague to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections, Adaptations & Plot summary, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
