The New York Trilogy
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The New York Trilogy is a postmodern series of interconnected detective novels by Paul Auster that deconstructs identity, authorship, and the conventions of crime fiction.
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| The New York Trilogy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3718110 — 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: The New York Trilogy Context triple: [Jewish American literature, hasNotableWork, The New York Trilogy]
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A.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.
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B.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 film adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial novel, known for its bleak portrayal of 1950s Brooklyn and featuring a critically acclaimed performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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C.
Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer is a modernist novel by John Dos Passos that portrays the fragmented, fast-paced life of early 20th-century New York City through a collage-like narrative style.
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D.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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E.
Nine Stories
Nine Stories is a celebrated collection of short stories by J. D. Salinger that explores themes of innocence, trauma, and spiritual longing through understated, character-driven narratives.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The New York Trilogy Target entity description: The New York Trilogy is a postmodern series of interconnected detective novels by Paul Auster that deconstructs identity, authorship, and the conventions of crime fiction.
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A.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.
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B.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 film adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial novel, known for its bleak portrayal of 1950s Brooklyn and featuring a critically acclaimed performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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C.
Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer is a modernist novel by John Dos Passos that portrays the fragmented, fast-paced life of early 20th-century New York City through a collage-like narrative style.
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D.
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
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E.
Nine Stories
Nine Stories is a celebrated collection of short stories by J. D. Salinger that explores themes of innocence, trauma, and spiritual longing through understated, character-driven narratives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective fiction work
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novel series ⓘ postmodern literature work ⓘ |
| author | Paul Auster ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| deconstructs |
conventions of crime fiction
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detective genre tropes ⓘ |
| features |
author-character doubles
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frame narratives ⓘ intertextual references ⓘ shifting identities ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| firstBook | City of Glass ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ metafiction ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
City of Glass
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surface form:
City of Glass (graphic novel)
City of Glass (radio drama) ⓘ |
| hasPart |
City of Glass
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Ghosts ⓘ The Locked Room ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary metafictional detective novels ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
authorship
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identity ⓘ language ⓘ surveillance ⓘ the nature of reality ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
experimental
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self-referential ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Black
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Blue ⓘ Daniel Quinn ⓘ Fanshawe ⓘ White ⓘ |
| publicationPeriodEnd | 1986 ⓘ |
| publicationPeriodStart | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Faber and Faber
ⓘ
Sun & Moon Press ⓘ
surface form:
Sun and Moon Press
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| secondBook | Ghosts ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| structure | interconnected stories ⓘ |
| thirdBook | The Locked Room ⓘ |
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