Answered Prayers
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Answered Prayers is Truman Capote’s famously unfinished, posthumously published novel that offers a scandalous, thinly veiled portrayal of New York high society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Answered Prayers canonical | 17 |
| Answered Prayers universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307774 — 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: Answered Prayers Context triple: [Truman Capote, authorOf, Answered Prayers]
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A.
Book of Blessings
The Book of Blessings is a liturgical book of the Roman Catholic Church that contains the official rites and prayers for a wide variety of blessings for people, places, and objects.
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B.
The Sisters
"The Sisters" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of family, marriage, and social manners.
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C.
Day of Goodwill
Day of Goodwill is a South African public holiday observed on December 26 that focuses on charity, generosity, and spending time with family and community.
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D.
Holy Place
The Holy Place was the inner sanctuary of the ancient Israelite tabernacle and later the Jerusalem Temple, where priests performed daily rituals before the Most Holy Place.
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E.
A Call from Heaven
"A Call from Heaven" is a 17th-century religious work by Puritan minister Increase Mather that exhorts readers to piety and spiritual preparation for death and the afterlife.
- 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: Answered Prayers Target entity description: Answered Prayers is Truman Capote’s famously unfinished, posthumously published novel that offers a scandalous, thinly veiled portrayal of New York high society.
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A.
Book of Blessings
The Book of Blessings is a liturgical book of the Roman Catholic Church that contains the official rites and prayers for a wide variety of blessings for people, places, and objects.
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B.
The Sisters
"The Sisters" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of family, marriage, and social manners.
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C.
Day of Goodwill
Day of Goodwill is a South African public holiday observed on December 26 that focuses on charity, generosity, and spending time with family and community.
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D.
Holy Place
The Holy Place was the inner sanctuary of the ancient Israelite tabernacle and later the Jerusalem Temple, where priests performed daily rituals before the Most Holy Place.
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E.
A Call from Heaven
"A Call from Heaven" is a 17th-century religious work by Puritan minister Increase Mather that exhorts readers to piety and spiritual preparation for death and the afterlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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posthumously published work ⓘ unfinished novel ⓘ |
| author | Truman Capote ⓘ |
| authorDeathYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| authorDiedBeforeCompletion | true ⓘ |
| contains |
explicit sexual content
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gossip about high-profile figures ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationDate |
1975
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1976 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Esquire magazine
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surface form:
Esquire
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| genre |
roman à clef
ⓘ
satirical fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasISBN | ISBN 0-394-55335-1 ⓘ |
| hasOCLCNumber |
OCLC
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surface form:
OCLC 13722135
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| hasPart |
“Kate McCloud”
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“La Côte Basque, 1965” ⓘ “Unspoiled Monsters” ⓘ “Unspoiled Monsters” (chapter) ⓘ “Yachts and Things” ⓘ |
| hasReputation | “the book that destroyed Capote’s social life” ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | PS3505.A59 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
American social elites
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New York high society ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
causing a scandal in New York high society
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thinly veiled portrayals of real socialites ⓘ |
| protagonist | P.B. Jones ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| publicationStatus |
posthumous
ⓘ
unfinished ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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surface form:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
In Cold Blood ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City
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mid-20th-century United States ⓘ |
| titleInspiredBy | a quote attributed to Saint Teresa of Ávila ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Answered Prayers Description of subject: Answered Prayers is Truman Capote’s famously unfinished, posthumously published novel that offers a scandalous, thinly veiled portrayal of New York high society.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Answered Prayers universe
subject surface form:
Unspoiled Monsters
subject surface form:
Unspoiled Monsters
subject surface form:
La Côte Basque, 1965
subject surface form:
Unspoiled Monsters
subject surface form:
Unspoiled Monsters
subject surface form:
Unspoiled Monsters
subject surface form:
Kate McCloud
subject surface form:
Kate McCloud
subject surface form:
Yachts and Things
subject surface form:
Yachts and Things