Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a critically acclaimed 1982 novel by Anne Tyler that explores the complexities and long-lasting tensions within a fractured American family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13561240 — 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: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Context triple: [Anne Tyler, notableWork, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant]
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A.
The Meal Ticket
The Meal Ticket was the nickname of Carl Hubbell, a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his dominant screwball and long tenure with the New York Giants in Major League Baseball.
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B.
The Family Dinner
The Family Dinner is a cookbook and guide by environmental activist Laurie David that promotes healthy, sustainable eating and meaningful family mealtime conversations.
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C.
The Restaurant
The Restaurant is a television series produced by Reveille Productions that follows the behind-the-scenes drama of launching and running a high-profile restaurant.
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D.
Soup for One
"Soup for One" is a 1982 disco and funk song by the American band Chic, best known for its distinctive groove and later being sampled in Modjo's hit "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)."
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E.
The Dinner
The Dinner is a psychological drama film adapted from Herman Koch’s novel, centering on two couples whose tense restaurant conversation gradually reveals a disturbing family secret.
- 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: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Target entity description: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a critically acclaimed 1982 novel by Anne Tyler that explores the complexities and long-lasting tensions within a fractured American family.
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A.
The Meal Ticket
The Meal Ticket was the nickname of Carl Hubbell, a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his dominant screwball and long tenure with the New York Giants in Major League Baseball.
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B.
The Family Dinner
The Family Dinner is a cookbook and guide by environmental activist Laurie David that promotes healthy, sustainable eating and meaningful family mealtime conversations.
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C.
The Restaurant
The Restaurant is a television series produced by Reveille Productions that follows the behind-the-scenes drama of launching and running a high-profile restaurant.
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D.
Soup for One
"Soup for One" is a 1982 disco and funk song by the American band Chic, best known for its distinctive groove and later being sampled in Modjo's hit "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)."
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E.
The Dinner
The Dinner is a psychological drama film adapted from Herman Koch’s novel, centering on two couples whose tense restaurant conversation gradually reveals a disturbing family secret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Anne Tyler ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
National Book Award for Fiction
ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
abandonment
ⓘ
effects of divorce ⓘ family relationships ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ memory and perception ⓘ search for belonging ⓘ sibling rivalry ⓘ |
| character | Beck Tull ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Accidental Tourist
ⓘ
linked to:
novel The Accidental Tourist
|
| genre |
domestic fiction
ⓘ
family saga ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
family meals
ⓘ
homesickness ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
fractured American family
ⓘ
individual vs. family expectations ⓘ intergenerational conflict ⓘ |
| isbn | 978-0-394-52199-0 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Cody Tull
ⓘ
Ezra Tull ⓘ Jenny Tull ⓘ
linked to:
Pearl Tull
Pearl Tull ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed character studies
ⓘ
nonlinear narrative structure ⓘ |
| openingEvent | Pearl Tull’s terminal illness ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 300 pages ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Anne Tyler Baltimore novels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Morgan’s Passing ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Baltimore, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|
| structure | multiple viewpoints ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStory | several decades ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | a restaurant run by Ezra Tull ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Description of subject: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a critically acclaimed 1982 novel by Anne Tyler that explores the complexities and long-lasting tensions within a fractured American family.
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