Dubin’s Lives
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Dubin’s Lives is a 1979 novel by Bernard Malamud that follows a middle-aged biographer whose obsessive engagement with the lives he writes about complicates his own search for meaning, love, and identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dubin’s Lives canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15899383 — 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: Dubin’s Lives Context triple: [Bernard Malamud, notableWork, Dubin’s Lives]
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A.
Three Lives
Three Lives is a 1909 modernist short story collection by Gertrude Stein that experiments with language and narrative in portraying the inner lives of three working-class women.
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B.
Two Lives
Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C.
A Double Life
A Double Life is a 1947 psychological film noir drama about an actor whose immersion in a murderous stage role begins to blur the line between performance and reality.
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D.
Life of Tom Dula
Life of Tom Dula is a biographical work recounting the life and infamous murder case of Tom Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina figure later immortalized in the folk song "Tom Dooley."
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E.
Bliss and Dickie
Bliss and Dickie were pioneering late-19th-century archaeologists known for their early systematic excavations in Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
- 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: Dubin’s Lives Target entity description: Dubin’s Lives is a 1979 novel by Bernard Malamud that follows a middle-aged biographer whose obsessive engagement with the lives he writes about complicates his own search for meaning, love, and identity.
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A.
Three Lives
Three Lives is a 1909 modernist short story collection by Gertrude Stein that experiments with language and narrative in portraying the inner lives of three working-class women.
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B.
Two Lives
Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C.
A Double Life
A Double Life is a 1947 psychological film noir drama about an actor whose immersion in a murderous stage role begins to blur the line between performance and reality.
-
D.
Life of Tom Dula
Life of Tom Dula is a biographical work recounting the life and infamous murder case of Tom Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina figure later immortalized in the folk song "Tom Dooley."
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E.
Bliss and Dickie
Bliss and Dickie were pioneering late-19th-century archaeologists known for their early systematic excavations in Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.