Potatoes Are Cheaper
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Potatoes Are Cheaper is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on love, ambition, and postwar American life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Potatoes Are Cheaper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1280865 — 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: Potatoes Are Cheaper Context triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, Potatoes Are Cheaper]
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A.
Mashed Potato Time
"Mashed Potato Time" is a 1962 dance song popularized by Dee Dee Sharp that helped popularize the Mashed Potato dance craze in early 1960s pop music.
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B.
The Potato Planters
The Potato Planters is a realist painting by Jean-François Millet depicting rural peasants laboring in the fields, emblematic of his focus on the dignity and hardship of peasant life.
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C.
Salo
Salo is a town in southwestern Finland known for its electronics industry history and location along the Salo River.
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D.
The Diet
The Diet is Japan’s bicameral national legislature, consisting of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, responsible for making laws and selecting the Prime Minister.
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E.
Grits
Grits is a comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," known for contributing to the play’s broad humor and farcical situations.
- 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: Potatoes Are Cheaper Target entity description: Potatoes Are Cheaper is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on love, ambition, and postwar American life.
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A.
Mashed Potato Time
"Mashed Potato Time" is a 1962 dance song popularized by Dee Dee Sharp that helped popularize the Mashed Potato dance craze in early 1960s pop music.
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B.
The Potato Planters
The Potato Planters is a realist painting by Jean-François Millet depicting rural peasants laboring in the fields, emblematic of his focus on the dignity and hardship of peasant life.
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C.
Salo
Salo is a town in southwestern Finland known for its electronics industry history and location along the Salo River.
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D.
The Diet
The Diet is Japan’s bicameral national legislature, consisting of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, responsible for making laws and selecting the Prime Minister.
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E.
Grits
Grits is a comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," known for contributing to the play’s broad humor and farcical situations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Max Shulman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
American society
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postwar social conditions ⓘ |
| explores |
economic aspirations
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personal ambition ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
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humor ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle |
comic
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satirical ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
courtship
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social mobility ⓘ young adults ⓘ |
| hasTone | humorous ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
ambition
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love ⓘ postwar American life ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| settingPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| workOf | Max Shulman ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Potatoes Are Cheaper Description of subject: Potatoes Are Cheaper is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on love, ambition, and postwar American life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.