The View from Mrs. Thompson’s
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"The View from Mrs. Thompson’s" is an essay by David Foster Wallace that reflects on the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks from the perspective of small-town Bloomington, Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The View from Mrs. Thompson’s canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12886012 — 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: The View from Mrs. Thompson’s Context triple: [Consider the Lobster, hasPart, The View from Mrs. Thompson’s]
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A.
The First Grader
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B.
The Making of a Schoolgirl
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C.
The School Principal
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The Reading Lesson
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- 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: The View from Mrs. Thompson’s Target entity description: "The View from Mrs. Thompson’s" is an essay by David Foster Wallace that reflects on the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks from the perspective of small-town Bloomington, Illinois.
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A.
The First Grader
The First Grader is a 2010 biographical drama film about an elderly Kenyan man who enrolls in primary school to learn to read, directed by Justin Chadwick.
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B.
The Making of a Schoolgirl
The Making of a Schoolgirl is a work by British author and suffragist Evelyn Sharp, reflecting her interest in girls’ lives and education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
The School Principal
The School Principal is a notable novella by Iranian writer Jalal Al-e-Ahmad that critiques bureaucracy and social decay through the story of a disillusioned headmaster.
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D.
The Reading Lesson
The Reading Lesson is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch, depicting an intimate domestic scene of instruction and quiet concentration.
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E.
The Lesson
The Lesson is a one-act absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco that satirically explores the dangers of authoritarianism and the breakdown of communication between a domineering professor and his pupil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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nonfiction work ⓘ |
| author | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Consider the Lobster and Other Essays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts | watching news coverage in Mrs. Thompson’s living room ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
David Foster Wallace
NERFINISHED
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Mrs. Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
local reactions to national tragedy
ⓘ
television coverage of September 11 attacks ⓘ |
| form | magazine essay ⓘ |
| genre |
literary journalism
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reportage ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
detailed description
ⓘ
digressive prose ⓘ |
| mainEventDescribed | September 11 attacks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| nonfictionType | personal essay ⓘ |
| originalPublicationMedium | Rolling Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Little, Brown and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | War on Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Consider the Lobster and Other Essays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| settingLocation | Bloomington, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | small Midwestern town ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
American flags and displays of patriotism
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community gathering in a private home ⓘ personal perception of national crisis ⓘ |
| theme |
collective grief
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media consumption ⓘ patriotism ⓘ public versus private response to tragedy ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
September 11, 2001
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immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks ⓘ |
| tone |
observational
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reflective ⓘ |
| workOf | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The View from Mrs. Thompson’s Description of subject: "The View from Mrs. Thompson’s" is an essay by David Foster Wallace that reflects on the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks from the perspective of small-town Bloomington, Illinois.
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