Brooklyn (novel)
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Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Colm Tóibín that follows a young Irish woman's emotionally complex emigration to 1950s New York and the life she builds there between two countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brooklyn (novel) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19982905 — 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)
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Target entity: Brooklyn (novel) Context triple: [Brooklyn (2015 film), basedOn, Brooklyn (novel)]
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Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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B.
Going Back to Brooklyn
Going Back to Brooklyn is a folk album by American singer-songwriter Dave Van Ronk that showcases his distinctive storytelling and guitar style.
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C.
City of Brooklyn
The City of Brooklyn was a former independent city in New York State that encompassed the area of present-day Brooklyn before its consolidation into New York City in 1898.
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D.
The Brooklyn Novels
The Brooklyn Novels is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical works by Daniel Fuchs that vividly portray Jewish working-class life in Brooklyn during the early 20th century.
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E.
It Happened in Brooklyn
It Happened in Brooklyn is a 1947 romantic musical comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante, set in postwar Brooklyn.
- 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: Brooklyn (novel) Target entity description: Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Colm Tóibín that follows a young Irish woman's emotionally complex emigration to 1950s New York and the life she builds there between two countries.
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A.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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B.
Going Back to Brooklyn
Going Back to Brooklyn is a folk album by American singer-songwriter Dave Van Ronk that showcases his distinctive storytelling and guitar style.
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C.
City of Brooklyn
The City of Brooklyn was a former independent city in New York State that encompassed the area of present-day Brooklyn before its consolidation into New York City in 1898.
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D.
The Brooklyn Novels
The Brooklyn Novels is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical works by Daniel Fuchs that vividly portray Jewish working-class life in Brooklyn during the early 20th century.
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E.
It Happened in Brooklyn
It Happened in Brooklyn is a 1947 romantic musical comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante, set in postwar Brooklyn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.