American Pastoral
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American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Pastoral canonical | 7 |
| American Pastoral (2016 film) | 1 |
| American Pastoral (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456970 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Pastoral Context triple: [Philip Roth, notableWork, American Pastoral]
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A.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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B.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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C.
A Life
A Life is the autobiographical memoir of influential film and theatre director Elia Kazan, in which he reflects on his career, personal life, and controversial political choices.
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D.
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules is a novel by John Irving that follows an orphan named Homer Wells and explores complex themes of morality, abortion, and personal choice in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
The Corrections
The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Pastoral Target entity description: American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.
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A.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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B.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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C.
A Life
A Life is the autobiographical memoir of influential film and theatre director Elia Kazan, in which he reflects on his career, personal life, and controversial political choices.
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D.
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules is a novel by John Irving that follows an orphan named Homer Wells and explores complex themes of morality, abortion, and personal choice in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
The Corrections
The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Philip Roth ⓘ |
| awarded | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| centralConflict | clash between idealized suburban life and political violence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Chip Kidd ⓘ |
| explores |
Vietnam War era unrest
ⓘ
assimilation of American Jews ⓘ domestic terrorism in the United States ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Ewan McGregor ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| followedBy | I Married a Communist ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ political novel ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
American Pastoral
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
American Pastoral (film)
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| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
disintegration of the American Dream
ⓘ
family breakdown ⓘ identity ⓘ political radicalism ⓘ postwar American society ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFrameCharacter | Nathan Zuckerman ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person frame narrative ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Merry Levov
ⓘ
surface form:
Dawn Levov
Merry Levov ⓘ |
| notableRecognition | considered one of Philip Roth's major works ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | 423 (first edition, approximate) ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Zuckerman novels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Sabbath's Theater ⓘ |
| protagonist | Seymour "Swede" Levov ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| setInPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| settingCity |
Newark
ⓘ
surface form:
Newark, New Jersey
|
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Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American Pastoral (2016 film)
subject surface form:
Philip Roth
this entity surface form:
American Pastoral (film)