A Long Way from Home
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A Long Way from Home is a memoir by American journalist Tom Brokaw reflecting on his Midwestern upbringing and the experiences that shaped his life and career.
All labels observed (1)
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| A Long Way from Home canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3998213 — 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: A Long Way from Home Context triple: [Tom Brokaw, notableWork, A Long Way from Home]
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A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home is Claude McKay’s 1937 autobiographical work recounting his life as a Jamaican-born writer and activist navigating race, politics, and exile in the early 20th century.
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B.
A Long Way from Home
"A Long Way from Home" is a memoir by Frances Spatz Leighton recounting her experiences and personal journey, often noted for its candid and engaging storytelling.
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C.
A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences.
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D.
A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a memoir by Saroo Brierley recounting his remarkable journey from being lost in India as a child to finding his birth family decades later using Google Earth.
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E.
Long Way Home
Long Way Home is a memoir by Cameron Douglas that chronicles his turbulent upbringing, struggles with addiction, and eventual path to recovery.
- 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: A Long Way from Home Target entity description: A Long Way from Home is a memoir by American journalist Tom Brokaw reflecting on his Midwestern upbringing and the experiences that shaped his life and career.
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A.
A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home is Claude McKay’s 1937 autobiographical work recounting his life as a Jamaican-born writer and activist navigating race, politics, and exile in the early 20th century.
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B.
A Long Way from Home
"A Long Way from Home" is a memoir by Frances Spatz Leighton recounting her experiences and personal journey, often noted for its candid and engaging storytelling.
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C.
A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences.
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D.
A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a memoir by Saroo Brierley recounting his remarkable journey from being lost in India as a child to finding his birth family decades later using Google Earth.
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E.
Long Way Home
Long Way Home is a memoir by Cameron Douglas that chronicles his turbulent upbringing, struggles with addiction, and eventual path to recovery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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memoir ⓘ |
| about |
Midwestern upbringing of Tom Brokaw
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experiences that shaped Tom Brokaw’s career ⓘ experiences that shaped Tom Brokaw’s life ⓘ |
| author | Tom Brokaw ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
memoir
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Tom Brokaw ⓘ |
| hasAuthorCitizenship | American ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | autobiographical narrative ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Midwestern United States
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Tom Brokaw ⓘ journalism career ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| setting | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| title | A Long Way from Home ⓘ |
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: A Long Way from Home Description of subject: A Long Way from Home is a memoir by American journalist Tom Brokaw reflecting on his Midwestern upbringing and the experiences that shaped his life and career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.