The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback
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The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback is a collected volume of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed Sandman comic series, compiling the “Brief Lives” story arc that follows Dream and his sister Delirium on a quest to find their missing brother.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sandman: Brief Lives graphic novel collection | 1 |
| The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17883611 — 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)
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Target entity: The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback Context triple: [Brief Lives, hasCollectedEdition, The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback]
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The Sandman: The Doll's House
The Sandman: The Doll's House is a major early story arc in Neil Gaiman's comic series "The Sandman," focusing on a developing dream vortex and its impact on Morpheus and the waking world.
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The Sandman #32–#37
The Sandman #32–#37 is the six-issue DC/Vertigo comic arc "A Game of You," a fantasy-horror storyline by Neil Gaiman that follows Barbie into a surreal dream realm to confront her past and identity.
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The Sandman
The Sandman is a seminal Gothic short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann that explores themes of madness, perception, and the uncanny through a young man's obsession with a mysterious automaton.
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The Sandman (DC Golden Age version)
The Sandman (DC Golden Age version) is a classic DC Comics superhero, originally a gas-mask-wearing, trench-coated crimefighter who used a sleep-inducing gas gun and operated as one of the earliest mystery men of the Golden Age.
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E.
The Sandman #1
The Sandman #1 is the debut issue of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed dark fantasy comic series introducing Dream, one of the Endless, and setting the tone for the saga that follows.
- 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: The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback Target entity description: The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback is a collected volume of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed Sandman comic series, compiling the “Brief Lives” story arc that follows Dream and his sister Delirium on a quest to find their missing brother.
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A.
The Sandman: The Doll's House
The Sandman: The Doll's House is a major early story arc in Neil Gaiman's comic series "The Sandman," focusing on a developing dream vortex and its impact on Morpheus and the waking world.
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B.
The Sandman #32–#37
The Sandman #32–#37 is the six-issue DC/Vertigo comic arc "A Game of You," a fantasy-horror storyline by Neil Gaiman that follows Barbie into a surreal dream realm to confront her past and identity.
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C.
The Sandman
The Sandman is a seminal Gothic short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann that explores themes of madness, perception, and the uncanny through a young man's obsession with a mysterious automaton.
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D.
The Sandman (DC Golden Age version)
The Sandman (DC Golden Age version) is a classic DC Comics superhero, originally a gas-mask-wearing, trench-coated crimefighter who used a sleep-inducing gas gun and operated as one of the earliest mystery men of the Golden Age.
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E.
The Sandman #1
The Sandman #1 is the debut issue of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed dark fantasy comic series introducing Dream, one of the Endless, and setting the tone for the saga that follows.
- F. None of above. chosen
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linked to: The Sandman: Brief Lives trade paperback