Short story "We So Seldom Look on Love"
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"We So Seldom Look on Love" is a dark, psychologically complex short story by Canadian author Barbara Gowdy that explores themes of obsession, otherness, and the boundaries of love through a protagonist with necrophiliac desires.
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| Short story "We So Seldom Look on Love" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22594991 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Short story "We So Seldom Look on Love" Context triple: [Kissed, basedOn, Short story "We So Seldom Look on Love"]
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True Love (short story)
"True Love" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the unintended emotional consequences of an advanced computer program designed to find its creator the perfect romantic partner.
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A Very Short Story
"A Very Short Story" is a brief World War I–themed narrative by Ernest Hemingway, known for its concise style and emotional understatement, later collected in his book *In Our Time*.
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short story "Murphy's Romance"
The short story "Murphy's Romance" is a romantic narrative best known as the literary source for the 1985 film adaptation starring Sally Field and James Garner.
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Short story "Incident"
"Incident" is a short story by William Kennedy that served as the basis for the 1991 crime drama film *The Indian Runner*, directed by Sean Penn.
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short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
- 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: Short story "We So Seldom Look on Love" Target entity description: "We So Seldom Look on Love" is a dark, psychologically complex short story by Canadian author Barbara Gowdy that explores themes of obsession, otherness, and the boundaries of love through a protagonist with necrophiliac desires.
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A.
True Love (short story)
"True Love" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the unintended emotional consequences of an advanced computer program designed to find its creator the perfect romantic partner.
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B.
A Very Short Story
"A Very Short Story" is a brief World War I–themed narrative by Ernest Hemingway, known for its concise style and emotional understatement, later collected in his book *In Our Time*.
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C.
short story "Murphy's Romance"
The short story "Murphy's Romance" is a romantic narrative best known as the literary source for the 1985 film adaptation starring Sally Field and James Garner.
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D.
Short story "Incident"
"Incident" is a short story by William Kennedy that served as the basis for the 1991 crime drama film *The Indian Runner*, directed by Sean Penn.
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E.
short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
- F. None of above. chosen
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