The Amateur Marriage
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The Amateur Marriage is a novel by Anne Tyler that traces the tumultuous decades-long relationship of a mismatched American couple against the backdrop of mid-20th-century social change.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Amateur Marriage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13561245 — 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 Amateur Marriage Context triple: [Anne Tyler, notableWork, The Amateur Marriage]
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A.
The Marriage Mill
The Marriage Mill is a historic nickname for Crown Point, Indiana, reflecting its past reputation as a popular destination for quick and easy weddings.
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B.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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C.
The Marriage Counselor
The Marriage Counselor is a stage play by Tyler Perry that blends drama and comedy to explore the complexities of relationships, infidelity, and personal growth within a troubled marriage.
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D.
A Quiet Little Marriage
A Quiet Little Marriage is an independent drama film that explores the unraveling relationship of a young married couple as they confront secrets, addiction, and the pressures of commitment.
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E.
A Good Marriage
A Good Marriage is a 2014 psychological thriller film based on a Stephen King novella, in which a woman discovers her seemingly perfect husband may be hiding a horrifying 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: The Amateur Marriage Target entity description: The Amateur Marriage is a novel by Anne Tyler that traces the tumultuous decades-long relationship of a mismatched American couple against the backdrop of mid-20th-century social change.
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A.
The Marriage Mill
The Marriage Mill is a historic nickname for Crown Point, Indiana, reflecting its past reputation as a popular destination for quick and easy weddings.
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B.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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C.
The Marriage Counselor
The Marriage Counselor is a stage play by Tyler Perry that blends drama and comedy to explore the complexities of relationships, infidelity, and personal growth within a troubled marriage.
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D.
A Quiet Little Marriage
A Quiet Little Marriage is an independent drama film that explores the unraveling relationship of a young married couple as they confront secrets, addiction, and the pressures of commitment.
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E.
A Good Marriage
A Good Marriage is a 2014 psychological thriller film based on a Stephen King novella, in which a woman discovers her seemingly perfect husband may be hiding a horrifying secret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Anne Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
American family life across several decades
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effects of historical and social change on a marriage ⓘ |
| follows | decades-long relationship of a mismatched couple ⓘ |
| genre |
domestic fiction
ⓘ
family saga ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Anne Tyler’s Baltimore-centered fictional world ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
changing gender roles
ⓘ
disillusionment in marriage ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ parent-child relationships ⓘ personal growth over time ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
American middle-class life
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family relationships ⓘ incompatibility ⓘ marriage ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Michael Anton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pauline Anton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
World War II era
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mid-20th century ⓘ postwar America ⓘ |
| workOf | Anne Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Amateur Marriage Description of subject: The Amateur Marriage is a novel by Anne Tyler that traces the tumultuous decades-long relationship of a mismatched American couple against the backdrop of mid-20th-century social change.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.