The Big Sky
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The Big Sky is a classic 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. that follows frontiersmen in the early 19th-century American West and helped define the modern Western literary genre.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Sky canonical | 5 |
| The Big Sky (novel) | 1 |
| The Big Sky series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23090354 — 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 Big Sky Context triple: [William Wycliffe Anderson, notableWork, The Big Sky]
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A.
The Big Sky
The Big Sky is a 1952 American Western adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, noted for its depiction of early 19th-century fur trappers and frontier exploration.
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B.
Big Sky
Big Sky is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities in the western United States.
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C.
Big Sky
Big Sky is an American crime drama television series centered on private detectives investigating abductions and other dark mysteries in rural Montana.
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D.
Gros Ventre of the Prairie
Gros Ventre of the Prairie is a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, traditionally associated with present-day Montana and known for their distinct Algonquian language and culture.
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E.
The Prairie
The Prairie is an 1827 frontier novel by James Fenimore Cooper, part of the Leatherstocking Tales, that follows Natty Bumppo in his old age on the Great Plains of the American West.
- 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 Big Sky Target entity description: The Big Sky is a classic 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. that follows frontiersmen in the early 19th-century American West and helped define the modern Western literary genre.
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A.
The Big Sky
The Big Sky is a 1952 American Western adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, noted for its depiction of early 19th-century fur trappers and frontier exploration.
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B.
Big Sky
Big Sky is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities in the western United States.
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C.
Big Sky
Big Sky is an American crime drama television series centered on private detectives investigating abductions and other dark mysteries in rural Montana.
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D.
Gros Ventre of the Prairie
Gros Ventre of the Prairie is a Native American tribe of the Northern Plains, traditionally associated with present-day Montana and known for their distinct Algonquian language and culture.
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E.
The Prairie
The Prairie is an 1827 frontier novel by James Fenimore Cooper, part of the Leatherstocking Tales, that follows Natty Bumppo in his old age on the Great Plains of the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.