The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze is William Saroyan’s acclaimed 1934 debut short story collection, noted for its lyrical style and compassionate portrayals of struggling, often immigrant, characters during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4307876 — 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 Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Context triple: [William Saroyan, notableWork, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze]
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A.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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B.
Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Broadway musical comedy with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, set during the California Gold Rush.
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C.
Sunshine in Their Eyes
"Sunshine in Their Eyes" is a soulful, socially conscious song by Stevie Wonder from his early-1970s period of artistic transition.
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D.
Some Came Running
Some Came Running is a 1958 American drama film, based on James Jones's novel, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine in a story of a war veteran's troubled return to small-town life.
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E.
National Velvet
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- 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 Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Target entity description: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze is William Saroyan’s acclaimed 1934 debut short story collection, noted for its lyrical style and compassionate portrayals of struggling, often immigrant, characters during the Great Depression.
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A.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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B.
Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Broadway musical comedy with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, set during the California Gold Rush.
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C.
Sunshine in Their Eyes
"Sunshine in Their Eyes" is a soulful, socially conscious song by Stevie Wonder from his early-1970s period of artistic transition.
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D.
Some Came Running
Some Came Running is a 1958 American drama film, based on James Jones's novel, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine in a story of a war veteran's troubled return to small-town life.
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E.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Armenian-American culture ⓘ |
| author | William Saroyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Saroyan’s observations of life in San Francisco ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Among the Lost
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love, Death, and the Imagination NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventy Thousand Assyrians NERFINISHED ⓘ The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man with the Heart in the Highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shepherd’s Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| depicts |
immigrant communities in the United States
ⓘ
working-class life in America ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later Armenian-American literature ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | song The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | reputation of William Saroyan as a major American writer ⓘ |
| isDebutWorkOf | William Saroyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainThemes |
hope amid hardship
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human dignity ⓘ immigrant experience ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
compassionate portrayal of struggling characters
ⓘ
lyrical prose style ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | debut book of William Saroyan ⓘ |
| style |
humanistic
ⓘ
impressionistic ⓘ lyrical ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
ethnic identity
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ loneliness ⓘ unemployment ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfNarrative | early 1930s ⓘ |
| titleStory | The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Description of subject: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze is William Saroyan’s acclaimed 1934 debut short story collection, noted for its lyrical style and compassionate portrayals of struggling, often immigrant, characters during the Great Depression.
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