novel "Little Children" by Tom Perrotta
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"Little Children" is a darkly comic suburban drama novel by Tom Perrotta that explores the hidden desires, moral failings, and intersecting lives of seemingly ordinary parents in a Massachusetts town.
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| novel "Little Children" by Tom Perrotta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15261946 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "Little Children" by Tom Perrotta Context triple: [Todd Field, adaptedFrom, novel "Little Children" by Tom Perrotta]
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Tom Perrotta’s novel "Election"
Tom Perrotta’s novel "Election" is a darkly comic political satire about a contentious high school student government race that exposes ambition, ethics, and hypocrisy in American suburban life.
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novel "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon
"Telegraph Avenue" is a 2012 novel by Michael Chabon that explores race, culture, friendship, and community tensions in Oakland and Berkeley through the story of two friends struggling to keep their used vinyl record store alive.
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C.
novel "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani
The novel "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani is a warm, character-driven work of contemporary fiction that follows the life, relationships, and self-discovery of a small-town woman in rural Appalachia.
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D.
Thomas Berger’s novel Neighbors
Thomas Berger’s novel "Neighbors" is a darkly comic work of suburban satire that follows an ordinary man whose life unravels over the course of one chaotic night with his bizarre new neighbors.
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E.
We Were the Mulvaneys
We Were the Mulvaneys is a contemporary American novel by Joyce Carol Oates that traces the disintegration of a seemingly perfect family after a traumatic event in small-town upstate New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "Little Children" by Tom Perrotta Target entity description: "Little Children" is a darkly comic suburban drama novel by Tom Perrotta that explores the hidden desires, moral failings, and intersecting lives of seemingly ordinary parents in a Massachusetts town.
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A.
Tom Perrotta’s novel "Election"
Tom Perrotta’s novel "Election" is a darkly comic political satire about a contentious high school student government race that exposes ambition, ethics, and hypocrisy in American suburban life.
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B.
novel "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon
"Telegraph Avenue" is a 2012 novel by Michael Chabon that explores race, culture, friendship, and community tensions in Oakland and Berkeley through the story of two friends struggling to keep their used vinyl record store alive.
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C.
novel "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani
The novel "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani is a warm, character-driven work of contemporary fiction that follows the life, relationships, and self-discovery of a small-town woman in rural Appalachia.
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D.
Thomas Berger’s novel Neighbors
Thomas Berger’s novel "Neighbors" is a darkly comic work of suburban satire that follows an ordinary man whose life unravels over the course of one chaotic night with his bizarre new neighbors.
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E.
We Were the Mulvaneys
We Were the Mulvaneys is a contemporary American novel by Joyce Carol Oates that traces the disintegration of a seemingly perfect family after a traumatic event in small-town upstate New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
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