The Splendid Things We Planned
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The Splendid Things We Planned is a memoir by biographer Blake Bailey that recounts his troubled relationship with his brother and their dysfunctional family.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Splendid Things We Planned canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2640862 — 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 Splendid Things We Planned Context triple: [Blake Bailey, notableWork, The Splendid Things We Planned]
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A.
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
"Love, Loss, and What We Ate" is a memoir by Padma Lakshmi that intertwines her personal journey through love, grief, immigration, and identity with the central role that food has played in her life.
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B.
Tender Lover
Tender Lover is a 1989 R&B album by Babyface that helped establish him as a leading singer, songwriter, and producer.
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C.
Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 comedy-drama film, based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, about a young American Jewish man traveling to Ukraine to uncover his family’s Holocaust-era past.
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D.
Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth is a critically acclaimed collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of family, migration, and cultural identity within the Indian diaspora.
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E.
A Life in Progress
"A Life in Progress" is a memoir by Canadian-born British former media mogul and writer Conrad Black, reflecting on his personal life, career, and controversies.
- 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 Splendid Things We Planned Target entity description: The Splendid Things We Planned is a memoir by biographer Blake Bailey that recounts his troubled relationship with his brother and their dysfunctional family.
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A.
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
"Love, Loss, and What We Ate" is a memoir by Padma Lakshmi that intertwines her personal journey through love, grief, immigration, and identity with the central role that food has played in her life.
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B.
Tender Lover
Tender Lover is a 1989 R&B album by Babyface that helped establish him as a leading singer, songwriter, and producer.
-
C.
Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 comedy-drama film, based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, about a young American Jewish man traveling to Ukraine to uncover his family’s Holocaust-era past.
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D.
Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth is a critically acclaimed collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of family, migration, and cultural identity within the Indian diaspora.
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E.
A Life in Progress
"A Life in Progress" is a memoir by Canadian-born British former media mogul and writer Conrad Black, reflecting on his personal life, career, and controversies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | memoir ⓘ |
| author | Blake Bailey ⓘ |
| awarded |
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (finalist)
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surface form:
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | W. W. Norton & Company design department ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780393239577 ⓘ |
| hasReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| hasStructure | episodic ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family dysfunction
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guilt ⓘ memory ⓘ mental illness ⓘ parent-child relationships ⓘ regret ⓘ responsibility ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ sibling rivalry ⓘ |
| hasTone |
darkly comic
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tragic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | nonfiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Blake Bailey
ⓘ
Scott Bailey ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of a destructive sibling relationship
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unflinching portrayal of a troubled family ⓘ |
| pageCount | 256 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
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Cheever: A Life ⓘ |
| reviewedIn |
The New York Times
ⓘ
The New Yorker ⓘ Washington Post ⓘ
surface form:
The Washington Post
|
| setting |
New Orleans
ⓘ
Oklahoma ⓘ |
| subject |
addiction
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brotherhood ⓘ dysfunctional families ⓘ family relationships ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | late 20th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfEvents |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
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