Boom!: Voices of the Sixties
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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties is a nonfiction book by journalist Tom Brokaw that explores the social, political, and cultural upheavals of the 1960s through personal narratives and historical reflection.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boom!: Voices of the Sixties canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3998214 — 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: Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Context triple: [Tom Brokaw, notableWork, Boom!: Voices of the Sixties]
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the Screaming Sixties
The Screaming Sixties are the notoriously stormy and wind-lashed latitudes between 60° and 70° south, famed among sailors for their extreme seas and powerful westerly gales in the Southern Ocean.
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Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a landmark 1967 social and cultural phenomenon centered in San Francisco, where tens of thousands of young people gathered to promote peace, countercultural values, psychedelic music, and experimental lifestyles.
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C.
Summer of Love
"Summer of Love" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2017 album "Songs of Experience," reflecting themes of conflict, hope, and resilience.
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D.
Second Summer of Love
The Second Summer of Love was a late-1980s British cultural movement centered on acid house music, rave culture, and youth counterculture, particularly in cities like Manchester and London.
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E.
Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
"Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" is a 1993 acid jazz and funk single by British band Freak Power that gained wider recognition after being used in a Levi's television advertisement.
- 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: Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Target entity description: Boom!: Voices of the Sixties is a nonfiction book by journalist Tom Brokaw that explores the social, political, and cultural upheavals of the 1960s through personal narratives and historical reflection.
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A.
the Screaming Sixties
The Screaming Sixties are the notoriously stormy and wind-lashed latitudes between 60° and 70° south, famed among sailors for their extreme seas and powerful westerly gales in the Southern Ocean.
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B.
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a landmark 1967 social and cultural phenomenon centered in San Francisco, where tens of thousands of young people gathered to promote peace, countercultural values, psychedelic music, and experimental lifestyles.
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C.
Summer of Love
"Summer of Love" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2017 album "Songs of Experience," reflecting themes of conflict, hope, and resilience.
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D.
Second Summer of Love
The Second Summer of Love was a late-1980s British cultural movement centered on acid house music, rave culture, and youth counterculture, particularly in cities like Manchester and London.
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E.
Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
"Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" is a 1993 acid jazz and funk single by British band Freak Power that gained wider recognition after being used in a Levi's television advertisement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
history book
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Tom Brokaw ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
cultural upheaval in the 1960s
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political upheaval in the 1960s ⓘ social upheaval in the 1960s ⓘ |
| follows | The Greatest Generation ⓘ |
| genre |
history
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nonfiction ⓘ oral history ⓘ |
| hasContributor | interview subjects from the 1960s era ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
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hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
historical reflection
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personal narratives ⓘ |
| hasSequelRelation | related to The Greatest Generation in theme ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
1960s
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United States history ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam War era
American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
counterculture ⓘ cultural change ⓘ feminist movement ⓘ political movements ⓘ social change ⓘ student protests ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeMode |
first-person accounts
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journalistic commentary ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| settingTime | 1960s ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
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readers of history ⓘ |
| timeOfPublication | early 21st century ⓘ |
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