Given a factoid/trivia type question, generate the topic of the question. The topic is the entity the question talks about.

[Q]: The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as?
[A]: the canterbury tales


[Q]: Mar Chiquita (Cordoba) is the largest natural salt lake in which South American country?
[A]: mar chiquita lake


[Q]: Which novelist wrote 'The Bostonians'?
[A]:
the bostonians