novel The Descendants
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The Descendants is a contemporary novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings that follows Hawaiian lawyer Matt King as he reconnects with his daughters and confronts family secrets after his wife falls into a coma.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Descendants | 5 |
| The Descendants (novel) | 2 |
| The Descendants: A Novel | 1 |
| novel The Descendants canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15964801 — 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 The Descendants Context triple: [Matt King, firstAppearance, novel The Descendants]
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A.
The Descendants
The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, in which George Clooney stars as a Hawaiian lawyer grappling with family crises and questions of legacy.
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B.
Hawaii (novel)
Hawaii is a 1959 historical novel by James A. Michener that chronicles the multicultural settlement and transformation of the Hawaiian Islands over several centuries.
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C.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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D.
The Hours
The Hours is a 2002 drama film, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that interweaves the lives of three women in different eras connected by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
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E.
Aloha & the Three Johns
Aloha & the Three Johns is a musical work featured as a component of the album *The Voyager*.
- 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 The Descendants Target entity description: The Descendants is a contemporary novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings that follows Hawaiian lawyer Matt King as he reconnects with his daughters and confronts family secrets after his wife falls into a coma.
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A.
The Descendants
The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, in which George Clooney stars as a Hawaiian lawyer grappling with family crises and questions of legacy.
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B.
Hawaii (novel)
Hawaii is a 1959 historical novel by James A. Michener that chronicles the multicultural settlement and transformation of the Hawaiian Islands over several centuries.
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C.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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D.
The Hours
The Hours is a 2002 drama film, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that interweaves the lives of three women in different eras connected by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
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E.
Aloha & the Three Johns
Aloha & the Three Johns is a musical work featured as a component of the album *The Voyager*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Descendants: A Novel
subject surface form:
The Descendants (film)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants
this entity surface form:
The Descendants
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants
this entity surface form:
The Descendants