A Mother's Kisses
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A Mother's Kisses is a darkly comic coming-of-age novel by Bruce Jay Friedman about an overprotected young man leaving home for college and confronting the absurdities of adult life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Mother's Kisses canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3641108 — 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: A Mother's Kisses Context triple: [Bruce Jay Friedman, notableWork, A Mother's Kisses]
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A.
The Young Mother
The Young Mother is a 17th-century Dutch genre painting by Gerrit Dou, celebrated for its meticulous detail and intimate domestic scene.
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B.
The Caresses
The Caresses is a symbolist painting by Belgian artist Fernand Khnopff, renowned for its enigmatic depiction of a human-animal encounter that explores themes of desire, danger, and psychological tension.
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C.
Four Mothers
Four Mothers is a 1941 American drama film that continues the story of the Lemp family introduced in Four Daughters and its first sequel, Four Wives.
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D.
The Stolen Kiss
The Stolen Kiss is an 18th-century Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicting a clandestine romantic embrace in an opulent interior.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
- 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: A Mother's Kisses Target entity description: A Mother's Kisses is a darkly comic coming-of-age novel by Bruce Jay Friedman about an overprotected young man leaving home for college and confronting the absurdities of adult life.
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A.
The Young Mother
The Young Mother is a 17th-century Dutch genre painting by Gerrit Dou, celebrated for its meticulous detail and intimate domestic scene.
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B.
The Caresses
The Caresses is a symbolist painting by Belgian artist Fernand Khnopff, renowned for its enigmatic depiction of a human-animal encounter that explores themes of desire, danger, and psychological tension.
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C.
Four Mothers
Four Mothers is a 1941 American drama film that continues the story of the Lemp family introduced in Four Daughters and its first sequel, Four Wives.
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D.
The Stolen Kiss
The Stolen Kiss is an 18th-century Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicting a clandestine romantic embrace in an opulent interior.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic novel
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coming-of-age novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Bruce Jay Friedman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
comic fiction
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coming-of-age fiction ⓘ satirical fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | overprotected young man ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Mother's Kisses self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| occupation | writer ⓘ |
| setting | college environment ⓘ |
| theme |
absurdity of adult life
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college life ⓘ mother–son relationship ⓘ overprotection ⓘ transition to adulthood ⓘ |
| tone | darkly comic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Mother's Kisses Description of subject: A Mother's Kisses is a darkly comic coming-of-age novel by Bruce Jay Friedman about an overprotected young man leaving home for college and confronting the absurdities of adult life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bruce Jay Friedman