Train Dreams
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Train Dreams is a celebrated novella by Denis Johnson that portrays the hardscrabble life of a railroad laborer in the early 20th-century American West with spare, haunting prose.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Train Dreams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14212366 — 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: Train Dreams Context triple: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Train Dreams]
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A.
House by the Railroad
House by the Railroad is a 1925 painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary Victorian house beside railroad tracks and often interpreted as a symbol of modern isolation and alienation.
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B.
The Railroad Stories
The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
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C.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is a landmark 1934 novel by Henry Roth that portrays the inner life and struggles of a young Jewish immigrant boy growing up in New York City's Lower East Side.
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D.
The Vanishing American Hobo
"The Vanishing American Hobo" is an essay by Jack Kerouac reflecting on the decline of the traditional American hobo and the changing nature of freedom and wandering in modern society.
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E.
Weekend in the Dust
"Weekend in the Dust" is a track from the collaborative art-pop album *Love This Giant* by David Byrne and St. Vincent, showcasing their experimental blend of brass arrangements and offbeat songwriting.
- 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: Train Dreams Target entity description: Train Dreams is a celebrated novella by Denis Johnson that portrays the hardscrabble life of a railroad laborer in the early 20th-century American West with spare, haunting prose.
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A.
House by the Railroad
House by the Railroad is a 1925 painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary Victorian house beside railroad tracks and often interpreted as a symbol of modern isolation and alienation.
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B.
The Railroad Stories
The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
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C.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is a landmark 1934 novel by Henry Roth that portrays the inner life and struggles of a young Jewish immigrant boy growing up in New York City's Lower East Side.
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D.
The Vanishing American Hobo
"The Vanishing American Hobo" is an essay by Jack Kerouac reflecting on the decline of the traditional American hobo and the changing nature of freedom and wandering in modern society.
-
E.
Weekend in the Dust
"Weekend in the Dust" is a track from the collaborative art-pop album *Love This Giant* by David Byrne and St. Vincent, showcasing their experimental blend of brass arrangements and offbeat songwriting.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.