Lake Wobegon Days
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Lake Wobegon Days is a humorous, nostalgic collection of stories by Garrison Keillor about life in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon, based on his long-running radio monologues.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Wobegon Days canonical | 2 |
| Lake Wobegon books | 2 |
| Lake Wobegon County (sometimes implied) | 1 |
| Lake Wobegon Days (audiobook) | 1 |
| Lake Wobegon series | 1 |
| Lake Wobegon stories | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2949866 — 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: Lake Wobegon Days Context triple: [Garrison Keillor, notableWork, Lake Wobegon Days]
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A.
Happy Days
Happy Days is a popular American sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s that nostalgically portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s through the Cunningham family and the iconic character Fonzie.
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B.
Happy Days
"Happy Days" is a darkly comic existential play by Samuel Beckett that portrays a woman buried increasingly in the ground as she clings to routine and optimism amid encroaching despair.
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C.
Podunk
Podunk was a Native American tribe of southern New England that played a significant role in 17th-century colonial conflicts, including King Philip's War.
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D.
Green Acres
Green Acres is a classic 1960s American television sitcom about a New York lawyer and his wife adjusting to an eccentric rural farming community.
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E.
Pleasant Valley Sunday
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a 1967 pop rock song, made famous by The Monkees, that satirically critiques suburban middle-class life.
- 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: Lake Wobegon Days Target entity description: Lake Wobegon Days is a humorous, nostalgic collection of stories by Garrison Keillor about life in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon, based on his long-running radio monologues.
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A.
Happy Days
Happy Days is a popular American sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s that nostalgically portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s through the Cunningham family and the iconic character Fonzie.
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B.
Happy Days
"Happy Days" is a darkly comic existential play by Samuel Beckett that portrays a woman buried increasingly in the ground as she clings to routine and optimism amid encroaching despair.
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C.
Podunk
Podunk was a Native American tribe of southern New England that played a significant role in 17th-century colonial conflicts, including King Philip's War.
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D.
Green Acres
Green Acres is a classic 1960s American television sitcom about a New York lawyer and his wife adjusting to an eccentric rural farming community.
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E.
Pleasant Valley Sunday
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a 1967 pop rock song, made famous by The Monkees, that satirically critiques suburban middle-class life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Garrison Keillor ⓘ |
| basedOn | A Prairie Home Companion monologues ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Robert Crawford ⓘ |
| featuresFictionalTown | Lake Wobegon ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Leaving Home
ⓘ
Wobegon Boy ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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humor ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| hasAudiobookVersion |
Lake Wobegon Days
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Wobegon Days (audiobook)
|
| hasAward | Minnesota Book Award ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Clarence Bunsen
ⓘ
Florian Krebsbach ⓘ Myrlie Krebsbach ⓘ Norwegian bachelor farmers ⓘ Pastor Inqvist ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
American small towns
ⓘ
Lutheran church life ⓘ Scandinavian-American culture ⓘ |
| isbn | 978-0-670-80954-5 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Midwestern identity
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family relationships ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ religion and Lutheran culture ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | linked short stories ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptation of radio monologues into prose
ⓘ
depiction of fictional town Lake Wobegon ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Lake Wobegon Days
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Wobegon books
|
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
|
| setting |
Lake Wobegon
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Minnesota ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | 20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
humorous
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nostalgic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Lake Wobegon Days Description of subject: Lake Wobegon Days is a humorous, nostalgic collection of stories by Garrison Keillor about life in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon, based on his long-running radio monologues.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lake Wobegon books
this entity surface form:
Lake Wobegon Days (audiobook)
this entity surface form:
Lake Wobegon series
this entity surface form:
Lake Wobegon stories
this entity surface form:
Lake Wobegon books
this entity surface form:
Lake Wobegon County (sometimes implied)