Budding Prospects
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Budding Prospects is a darkly comic novel by T.C. Boyle about a group of hapless men attempting to run a clandestine marijuana farm in rural California.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Budding Prospects canonical | 2 |
| Budding Prospects (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10091733 — 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: Budding Prospects Context triple: [T.C. Boyle, notableWork, Budding Prospects]
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A.
Prospect
Prospect is a small suburban town in New Haven County, Connecticut, known for its residential character and local community atmosphere.
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B.
Prospect
Prospect is a 2018 science fiction film in which Pedro Pascal stars as a mercenary on a dangerous mission to harvest valuable gems on a toxic alien moon.
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C.
Prospect
Prospect is a small coastal community within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, known for its rugged shoreline and fishing heritage.
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D.
Rising Stars
Rising Stars is a comic book series created by J. Michael Straczynski that follows a group of superpowered individuals whose abilities and lives are mysteriously interconnected.
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E.
Entered Apprentice
Entered Apprentice is the first and introductory degree of Freemasonry, representing a candidate’s initial initiation into the Masonic fraternity.
- 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: Budding Prospects Target entity description: Budding Prospects is a darkly comic novel by T.C. Boyle about a group of hapless men attempting to run a clandestine marijuana farm in rural California.
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A.
Prospect
Prospect is a small suburban town in New Haven County, Connecticut, known for its residential character and local community atmosphere.
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B.
Prospect
Prospect is a 2018 science fiction film in which Pedro Pascal stars as a mercenary on a dangerous mission to harvest valuable gems on a toxic alien moon.
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C.
Prospect
Prospect is a small coastal community within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, known for its rugged shoreline and fishing heritage.
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D.
Rising Stars
Rising Stars is a comic book series created by J. Michael Straczynski that follows a group of superpowered individuals whose abilities and lives are mysteriously interconnected.
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E.
Entered Apprentice
Entered Apprentice is the first and introductory degree of Freemasonry, representing a candidate’s initial initiation into the Masonic fraternity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Budding Prospects (TV series)
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linked to:
Budding Prospects
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| adaptationNetwork | Amazon Studios ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television series ⓘ |
| author |
T. C. Boyle
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linked to:
T.C. Boyle
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coverArtist | Louise Fili ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
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dark comedy ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Felix Nasmyth
ⓘ
Gordo ⓘ Phil ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
American dream gone wrong
ⓘ
escapism ⓘ incompetence ⓘ paranoia ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 320 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
get-rich-quick schemes
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illegal drugs ⓘ marijuana ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| hasTone |
darkly comic
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satirical ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
American counterculture
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crime ⓘ failure ⓘ male camaraderie ⓘ marijuana cultivation ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | T. C. Boyle bibliography ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of inept men attempt to run a clandestine marijuana farm in rural California. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Felix Nasmyth ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Viking Press
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linked to:
The Viking Press
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| settingLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
rural California ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Budding Prospects Description of subject: Budding Prospects is a darkly comic novel by T.C. Boyle about a group of hapless men attempting to run a clandestine marijuana farm in rural California.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Budding Prospects