Private Life
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Private Life is a historical novel by Jane Smiley that follows a Midwestern woman’s constrained marriage and inner world across the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Private Life canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9098657 — 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: Private Life Context triple: [Jane Smiley, notableWork, Private Life]
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Private Life
"Private Life" is a song by the American new wave band Oingo Boingo, known for its quirky, energetic style and darkly humorous lyrics.
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Private Life
"Private Life" is a song best known from Grace Jones's 1980 album "Warm Leatherette," where it showcases her distinctive blend of new wave, reggae, and art-pop.
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Private Life
"Private Life" is a 2018 American comedy-drama film about a middle-aged couple struggling with infertility, acclaimed for its nuanced writing and Kathryn Hahn’s central performance.
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D.
Appendix Private Life
Appendix Private Life is a section of the UK Immigration Rules that sets out the requirements and routes for individuals seeking permission to stay in the UK on the basis of their private life established in the country.
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Private Music
Private Music was an independent American record label known for its eclectic roster spanning new-age, jazz, and adult contemporary artists.
- 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: Private Life Target entity description: Private Life is a historical novel by Jane Smiley that follows a Midwestern woman’s constrained marriage and inner world across the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.
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A.
Private Life
"Private Life" is a song by the American new wave band Oingo Boingo, known for its quirky, energetic style and darkly humorous lyrics.
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B.
Private Life
"Private Life" is a song best known from Grace Jones's 1980 album "Warm Leatherette," where it showcases her distinctive blend of new wave, reggae, and art-pop.
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C.
Private Life
"Private Life" is a 2018 American comedy-drama film about a middle-aged couple struggling with infertility, acclaimed for its nuanced writing and Kathryn Hahn’s central performance.
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D.
Appendix Private Life
Appendix Private Life is a section of the UK Immigration Rules that sets out the requirements and routes for individuals seeking permission to stay in the UK on the basis of their private life established in the country.
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E.
Private Music
Private Music was an independent American record label known for its eclectic roster spanning new-age, jazz, and adult contemporary artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Jane Smiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | California Book Award (Gold Medal for Fiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Chip Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
American domestic life
ⓘ
California life ⓘ Midwestern American life ⓘ |
| explores | the tension between public events and private experience ⓘ |
| follows | a Midwestern woman’s constrained marriage ⓘ |
| genre |
domestic fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-4000-4344-1 ⓘ |
| hasReception | critical acclaim for psychological depth ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
family relationships
ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ science and astronomy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Andrew Early
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margaret Mayfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 320 ⓘ |
| partOf | Jane Smiley’s body of work ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
constraints on women
ⓘ
disillusionment ⓘ isolation ⓘ marriage ⓘ women’s inner lives ⓘ |
| protagonist | Margaret Mayfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setIn |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriodEnd | early 20th century ⓘ |
| settingPeriodStart | late 19th century ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor | Folio Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeSpan | from the 1880s to World War II era ⓘ |
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: Private Life Description of subject: Private Life is a historical novel by Jane Smiley that follows a Midwestern woman’s constrained marriage and inner world across the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.