The Bridges of Madison County (novel)

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The Bridges of Madison County is a bestselling 1992 romantic drama novel by Robert James Waller about a brief, life-changing love affair between a traveling photographer and an Iowa farm wife.

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Label	Occurrences
The Bridges of Madison County	10
Bridges of Madison County	5
The Bridges of Madison County (novel) canonical	3
The Bridges of Madison County (setting)	1
novel The Bridges of Madison County	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12063590 — 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: The Bridges of Madison County (novel)
Context triple: [Madison County, Iowa, featuredIn, The Bridges of Madison County (novel)]

A. The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County is a romantic drama film, based on Robert James Waller’s novel, best known for its poignant love story between a housewife and a photographer in rural Iowa.
B. The Bridges of Madison County (stage musical)
The Bridges of Madison County is a stage musical adaptation of Robert James Waller’s novel, featuring a sweeping romantic score by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Marsha Norman about an Italian war bride’s brief, life-changing affair in rural Iowa.
C. Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film set in Depression-era Texas, focusing on a widow’s struggle to save her farm and family.
D. Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic historical drama film, based on Jim Harrison's novella, that follows three brothers and their father in early 20th-century Montana as love, war, and family conflict shape their intertwined destinies.
E. An American Romance
An American Romance is a 1944 epic drama film directed by King Vidor that chronicles an immigrant's rise in the American industrial world.
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: The Bridges of Madison County (novel)
Target entity description: The Bridges of Madison County is a bestselling 1992 romantic drama novel by Robert James Waller about a brief, life-changing love affair between a traveling photographer and an Iowa farm wife.

A. The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County is a romantic drama film, based on Robert James Waller’s novel, best known for its poignant love story between a housewife and a photographer in rural Iowa.
B. The Bridges of Madison County (stage musical)
The Bridges of Madison County is a stage musical adaptation of Robert James Waller’s novel, featuring a sweeping romantic score by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Marsha Norman about an Italian war bride’s brief, life-changing affair in rural Iowa.
C. Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film set in Depression-era Texas, focusing on a widow’s struggle to save her farm and family.
D. Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic historical drama film, based on Jim Harrison's novella, that follows three brothers and their father in early 20th-century Montana as love, war, and family conflict shape their intertwined destinies.
E. An American Romance
An American Romance is a 1944 epic drama film directed by King Vidor that chronicles an immigrant's rise in the American industrial world.
F. None of above. chosen

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Madison County, Iowa → featuredIn → The Bridges of Madison County (novel) ⓘ

Madison County, Iowa → knownFor → The Bridges of Madison County (setting) ⓘ

subject linked to: Madison County