The Wish
E1466289
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The Wish is a short story by Roald Dahl that explores themes of childhood imagination, fear, and consequence through a boy’s perilous game on a patterned carpet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Wish canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21090879 — 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 Wish Context triple: [Someone Like You, hasStory, The Wish]
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A.
Wish
"Wish" is an aggressive, industrial rock song by Nine Inch Nails, known for its intense sound and Grammy-winning performance.
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B.
Wish
Wish is a 1992 studio album by English rock band The Cure, known for hits like "Friday I'm in Love" and its blend of alternative rock and gothic pop.
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C.
Wish
Wish is an e-commerce platform and mobile shopping app known for offering a wide variety of low-priced goods shipped directly from merchants, primarily in China, to consumers worldwide.
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D.
The Wish List
The Wish List is a young adult fantasy novel by Eoin Colfer that follows a recently deceased teenage girl caught between Heaven and Hell as she attempts to right her past wrongs.
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E.
A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish is a 1997 family fantasy-comedy film in which a young girl tries to help her bumbling fairy godfather save the North American Fairy Godmothers Association.
- 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 Wish Target entity description: The Wish is a short story by Roald Dahl that explores themes of childhood imagination, fear, and consequence through a boy’s perilous game on a patterned carpet.
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A.
Wish
"Wish" is an aggressive, industrial rock song by Nine Inch Nails, known for its intense sound and Grammy-winning performance.
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B.
Wish
Wish is a 1992 studio album by English rock band The Cure, known for hits like "Friday I'm in Love" and its blend of alternative rock and gothic pop.
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C.
Wish
Wish is an e-commerce platform and mobile shopping app known for offering a wide variety of low-priced goods shipped directly from merchants, primarily in China, to consumers worldwide.
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D.
The Wish List
The Wish List is a young adult fantasy novel by Eoin Colfer that follows a recently deceased teenage girl caught between Heaven and Hell as she attempts to right her past wrongs.
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E.
A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish is a 1997 family fantasy-comedy film in which a young girl tries to help her bumbling fairy godfather save the North American Fairy Godmothers Association.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.