Like Family
E338335
Like Family is a poignant contemporary novel by Italian author Paolo Giordano that explores intimacy, loss, and the fragile bonds that hold a makeshift family together.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Like Family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3216635 — 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: Like Family Context triple: [Paolo Giordano, notableWork, Like Family]
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A.
His Family
"His Family" is a 1917 novel by Ernest Poole that portrays the struggles and changes within a New York City family in the early 20th century.
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B.
Family Ties
Family Ties is a popular 1980s American sitcom that follows the Keaton family as they navigate generational and political differences with humor and heart.
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C.
Bright family
The Bright family is a prominent benefactor family associated with Harvard University, recognized for their significant philanthropic contributions that led to the naming of the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.
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D.
What Makes a Family
"What Makes a Family" is a 2001 television drama film that explores the legal and emotional struggles of a lesbian couple fighting for custody of their child.
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E.
Familia
"Familia" is a musical track featured on Yo-Yo Ma and Friends' holiday-themed album "Songs of Joy & Peace."
- 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: Like Family Target entity description: Like Family is a poignant contemporary novel by Italian author Paolo Giordano that explores intimacy, loss, and the fragile bonds that hold a makeshift family together.
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A.
His Family
"His Family" is a 1917 novel by Ernest Poole that portrays the struggles and changes within a New York City family in the early 20th century.
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B.
Family Ties
Family Ties is a popular 1980s American sitcom that follows the Keaton family as they navigate generational and political differences with humor and heart.
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C.
Bright family
The Bright family is a prominent benefactor family associated with Harvard University, recognized for their significant philanthropic contributions that led to the naming of the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.
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D.
What Makes a Family
"What Makes a Family" is a 2001 television drama film that explores the legal and emotional struggles of a lesbian couple fighting for custody of their child.
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E.
Familia
"Familia" is a musical track featured on Yo-Yo Ma and Friends' holiday-themed album "Songs of Joy & Peace."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Paolo Giordano ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| explores |
caregiving
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domestic life ⓘ fragility of human connections ⓘ parental figures outside biological family ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
child
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non-biological caregiver ⓘ young couple ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st century literature ⓘ |
| literaryTone |
intimate
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melancholic ⓘ poignant ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
emotional bonds
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family relationships ⓘ grief ⓘ intimacy ⓘ loss ⓘ makeshift family ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary Italy ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Paolo Giordano ⓘ |
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: Like Family Description of subject: Like Family is a poignant contemporary novel by Italian author Paolo Giordano that explores intimacy, loss, and the fragile bonds that hold a makeshift family together.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.