Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Mountains Beyond Mountains is a nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the life and global health work of physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mountains Beyond Mountains canonical | 4 |
| The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T357777 — 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: Mountains Beyond Mountains Context triple: [Paul Farmer, notableWork, Mountains Beyond Mountains]
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A.
The Mountain Between Us
The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 survival romance film in which Idris Elba and Kate Winslet play strangers stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash.
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B.
City of Firsts
City of Firsts is a historic Massachusetts city known for its early industrial innovations and numerous pioneering achievements in American manufacturing and technology.
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C.
The Heart of the Andes
The Heart of the Andes is a monumental 1859 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church that dramatically depicts the South American Andes with meticulous detail and romantic grandeur.
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D.
The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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E.
A Path Where No Man Thought
A Path Where No Man Thought is a science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan that explores nuclear winter and the catastrophic global consequences of nuclear war.
- 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: Mountains Beyond Mountains Target entity description: Mountains Beyond Mountains is a nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the life and global health work of physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer.
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A.
The Mountain Between Us
The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 survival romance film in which Idris Elba and Kate Winslet play strangers stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash.
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B.
City of Firsts
City of Firsts is a historic Massachusetts city known for its early industrial innovations and numerous pioneering achievements in American manufacturing and technology.
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C.
The Heart of the Andes
The Heart of the Andes is a monumental 1859 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church that dramatically depicts the South American Andes with meticulous detail and romantic grandeur.
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D.
The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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E.
A Path Where No Man Thought
A Path Where No Man Thought is a science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan that explores nuclear winter and the catastrophic global consequences of nuclear war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Tracy Kidder ⓘ |
| awarded |
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
ⓘ
surface form:
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (nonfiction winner)
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (finalist) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
international public health policy debates
ⓘ
rural poverty in Haiti ⓘ struggles in delivering health care to the poor ⓘ |
| features |
Jim Yong Kim
ⓘ
Ophelia Dahl ⓘ Partners In Health ⓘ Zanmi Lasante ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-375-50765-6 ⓘ |
| hasOCLCNumber | 51969109 ⓘ |
| hasSubjectOccupation |
anthropologist
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Paul Farmer ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person journalism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on global health advocacy
ⓘ
portrayal of Paul Farmer's work in Haiti ⓘ |
| pages | ~330 ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2003 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Penguin Random House
ⓘ
surface form:
Random House
Random House ⓘ
surface form:
Random House Trade Paperbacks
|
| setting |
Haiti
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ Russia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| structure | chronological narrative with reportage ⓘ |
| subtitle |
Mountains Beyond Mountains
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
|
| targetAudience |
general readers
ⓘ
students of global health ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
| title | Mountains Beyond Mountains self-link ⓘ |
| topic |
HIV/AIDS
ⓘ
global health ⓘ health equity ⓘ infectious diseases ⓘ medical anthropology ⓘ social justice ⓘ tuberculosis ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World