My Salinger Year
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My Salinger Year is a 2020 literary drama film, based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoir, about a young aspiring writer working at a New York literary agency that represents J.D. Salinger.
All labels observed (1)
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| My Salinger Year canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7004631 — 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: My Salinger Year Context triple: [Margaret Qualley, notableWork, My Salinger Year]
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B.
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C.
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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D.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age drama film, based on Stephen Chbosky’s novel, that follows an introverted teenager navigating friendship, trauma, and first love in early 1990s high school.
- 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: My Salinger Year Target entity description: My Salinger Year is a 2020 literary drama film, based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoir, about a young aspiring writer working at a New York literary agency that represents J.D. Salinger.
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A.
Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson about a disillusioned college professor and novelist navigating a chaotic weekend that upends his personal and professional life.
-
B.
The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour is a 2015 biographical drama film that chronicles Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky’s multi-day interview with author David Foster Wallace during the final leg of his Infinite Jest book tour.
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C.
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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D.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Michael Chabon that follows two Jewish cousins in mid-20th-century New York as they create a popular comic book hero while grappling with war, identity, and the American Dream.
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E.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age drama film, based on Stephen Chbosky’s novel, that follows an introverted teenager navigating friendship, trauma, and first love in early 1990s high school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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literary drama film ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| about |
a literary agency that represents J. D. Salinger
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a young aspiring writer working at a New York literary agency ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | My New York Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Joanna Rakoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | My Salinger Year (memoir) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Don
NERFINISHED
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Joanna NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sara Mishara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Philippe Falardeau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | IFC Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Stéphane Lafleur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSection | Berlinale Special Gala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Montreal
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
literary adaptation ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySource | My Salinger Year (memoir) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Margaret Qualley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sigourney Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Martin Léon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | New York literary agency ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 70th Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Parallel Films
NERFINISHED
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micro_scope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 101 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Philippe Falardeau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Brían F. O’Byrne
NERFINISHED
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Colm Feore NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Qualley NERFINISHED ⓘ Seána Kerslake NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigourney Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
J. D. Salinger
NERFINISHED
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aspiring writer ⓘ publishing industry ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| worldPremiereDate | 2020-02-20 ⓘ |
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