Anywhere but Here
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Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anywhere But Here | 3 |
| Anywhere but Here canonical | 2 |
| Anywhere but Here (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3065007 — 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: Anywhere but Here Context triple: [Mona Simpson, notableWork, Anywhere but Here]
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A.
Enter Nowhere
Enter Nowhere is a 2011 psychological thriller film about three strangers mysteriously trapped at a remote cabin in the woods, where they uncover a mind-bending connection between them.
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B.
Whenever, Wherever
"Whenever, Wherever" is a globally successful Latin pop song by Colombian singer Shakira that helped launch her international crossover career in the early 2000s.
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C.
Somewhere Out There
"Somewhere Out There" is a popular 1986 pop ballad and duet from the animated film *An American Tail*, widely recognized for its emotional theme of longing and reunion.
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D.
Middle of Nowhere
Middle of Nowhere is an independent drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay that explores a woman's emotional journey while her husband serves time in prison.
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E.
Here and Now
"Here and Now" is a Grammy-winning R&B ballad by Luther Vandross that became one of his signature love songs and a popular wedding staple.
- 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: Anywhere but Here Target entity description: Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
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A.
Enter Nowhere
Enter Nowhere is a 2011 psychological thriller film about three strangers mysteriously trapped at a remote cabin in the woods, where they uncover a mind-bending connection between them.
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B.
Whenever, Wherever
"Whenever, Wherever" is a globally successful Latin pop song by Colombian singer Shakira that helped launch her international crossover career in the early 2000s.
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C.
Somewhere Out There
"Somewhere Out There" is a popular 1986 pop ballad and duet from the animated film *An American Tail*, widely recognized for its emotional theme of longing and reunion.
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D.
Middle of Nowhere
Middle of Nowhere is an independent drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay that explores a woman's emotional journey while her husband serves time in prison.
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E.
Here and Now
"Here and Now" is a Grammy-winning R&B ballad by Luther Vandross that became one of his signature love songs and a popular wedding staple.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coming-of-age novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation | Anywhere but Here (1999 film) ⓘ |
| author | Mona Simpson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| debutWorkOf | Mona Simpson ⓘ |
| follows | a mother and daughter leaving the Midwest for California ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptationDirector | Wayne Wang ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptationStar |
Natalie Portman
ⓘ
Susan Sarandon ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-394-54972-4 ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Adele August
ⓘ
Ann August ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Ann August ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistRelationship | mother and daughter ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
Midwest, United States
|
| theme |
class and aspiration
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identity ⓘ mother-daughter relationship ⓘ restlessness ⓘ search for a better life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Anywhere but Here Description of subject: Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anywhere But Here
this entity surface form:
Anywhere but Here (novel)
this entity surface form:
Anywhere But Here
this entity surface form:
Anywhere But Here