The Silent Boy
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The Silent Boy is a historical young adult novel by Lois Lowry that follows a girl’s relationship with a mysteriously mute farmhand in early 20th-century America, exploring themes of compassion, misunderstanding, and mental disability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Silent Boy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18297170 — 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 Silent Boy Context triple: [Lois Lowry, notableWork, The Silent Boy]
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The Silent Girl
The Silent Girl is a crime thriller novel in Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli & Isles series that blends forensic investigation with Chinese folklore and a mysterious Chinatown murder.
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B.
The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry is a dark, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe that explores family trauma, guilt, and the search for meaning in postwar rural Japan.
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C.
The Quiet Girl
The Quiet Girl is a 2022 Irish-language coming-of-age drama film about a neglected young girl sent to live with distant relatives in rural Ireland, where she experiences care and affection for the first time.
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A Strange Boy
"A Strange Boy" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced sound.
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E.
The Roaring Silence
The Roaring Silence is a 1976 rock album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, best known for featuring their hit cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light."
- 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 Silent Boy Target entity description: The Silent Boy is a historical young adult novel by Lois Lowry that follows a girl’s relationship with a mysteriously mute farmhand in early 20th-century America, exploring themes of compassion, misunderstanding, and mental disability.
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A.
The Silent Girl
The Silent Girl is a crime thriller novel in Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli & Isles series that blends forensic investigation with Chinese folklore and a mysterious Chinatown murder.
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B.
The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry is a dark, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe that explores family trauma, guilt, and the search for meaning in postwar rural Japan.
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C.
The Quiet Girl
The Quiet Girl is a 2022 Irish-language coming-of-age drama film about a neglected young girl sent to live with distant relatives in rural Ireland, where she experiences care and affection for the first time.
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D.
A Strange Boy
"A Strange Boy" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced sound.
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E.
The Roaring Silence
The Roaring Silence is a 1976 rock album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, best known for featuring their hit cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.