The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye is a landmark mid-20th-century American novel by J.D. Salinger that follows disaffected teenager Holden Caulfield as he wanders New York City, exploring themes of alienation, innocence, and rebellion.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Catcher in the Rye canonical | 35 |
| The Catcher in the Rye (1951 novel) | 4 |
| The Catcher in the Rye (1951) | 3 |
| The Catcher in the Rye universe | 2 |
| Catcher in the Rye | 1 |
| Coming Through the Rye | 1 |
| novel The Catcher in the Rye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110802 — 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 Catcher in the Rye Context triple: [American literature, hasNotableWork, The Catcher in the Rye]
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A.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamour and disillusionment of the American Jazz Age through the tragic story of Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community through the story of Hester Prynne and the emblematic letter "A" she is forced to wear.
- 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 Catcher in the Rye Target entity description: The Catcher in the Rye is a landmark mid-20th-century American novel by J.D. Salinger that follows disaffected teenager Holden Caulfield as he wanders New York City, exploring themes of alienation, innocence, and rebellion.
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A.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamour and disillusionment of the American Jazz Age through the tragic story of Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community through the story of Hester Prynne and the emblematic letter "A" she is forced to wear.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Catcher in the Rye Description of subject: The Catcher in the Rye is a landmark mid-20th-century American novel by J.D. Salinger that follows disaffected teenager Holden Caulfield as he wanders New York City, exploring themes of alienation, innocence, and rebellion.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
this entity surface form:
novel The Catcher in the Rye
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951 novel)
subject surface form:
Comin' Thro' the Rye
subject surface form:
Comin' Thro' the Rye
subject surface form:
Comin' Thro' the Rye
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Comin' Thro' the Rye
this entity surface form:
Coming Through the Rye
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951 novel)
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye universe
subject surface form:
Stradlater
subject surface form:
Stradlater
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951 novel)
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye universe
this entity surface form:
The Catcher in the Rye (1951 novel)
this entity surface form:
Catcher in the Rye