Grand Union
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"Grand Union" is a short story collection by British author Zadie Smith that showcases her range through diverse voices, styles, and contemporary themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grand Union canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6920678 — 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: Grand Union Context triple: [Sadie Smith, notableWork, Grand Union]
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The Union Signal
The Union Signal was the official newspaper of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, promoting temperance, social reform, and women's activism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Elizabeth Pass
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New Jersey Line
The New Jersey Line was a formation of Continental Army regiments raised in New Jersey that served as the colony’s primary contribution to the Patriot forces during the American Revolutionary War.
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Blackrod
Blackrod is a small town and civil parish in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire and situated near Horwich and Bolton.
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Courthézon
Courthézon is a commune in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, known for its historic village center, wine production in the Côtes du Rhône region, and proximity to Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
- 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: Grand Union Target entity description: "Grand Union" is a short story collection by British author Zadie Smith that showcases her range through diverse voices, styles, and contemporary themes.
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A.
The Union Signal
The Union Signal was the official newspaper of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, promoting temperance, social reform, and women's activism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Elizabeth Pass
Elizabeth Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, traversing the rugged terrain of the Great Western Divide and offering access to remote backcountry areas.
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C.
New Jersey Line
The New Jersey Line was a formation of Continental Army regiments raised in New Jersey that served as the colony’s primary contribution to the Patriot forces during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Blackrod
Blackrod is a small town and civil parish in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire and situated near Horwich and Bolton.
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E.
Courthézon
Courthézon is a commune in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, known for its historic village center, wine production in the Côtes du Rhône region, and proximity to Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Zadie Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | design by Penguin Books ⓘ |
| hasISBN |
978-0-241-18716-2
ⓘ
978-0-525-55897-8 ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ various contemporary locations ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Big Week
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blocked ⓘ Downtown NERFINISHED ⓘ Escape from New York NERFINISHED ⓘ For the King NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Union (title story) NERFINISHED ⓘ Just Right NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelso Deconstructed NERFINISHED ⓘ Meet the President! NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets NERFINISHED ⓘ Mood NERFINISHED ⓘ Now More Than Ever NERFINISHED ⓘ Parents’ Morning Epiphany NERFINISHED ⓘ Sentimental Education NERFINISHED ⓘ The Canker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lazy River NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Men Arrive in a Village NERFINISHED ⓘ Words and Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contemporary themes
ⓘ
diverse narrative voices ⓘ experimental styles ⓘ |
| numberOfStories | 19 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Hamish Hamilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Penguin Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
contemporary politics
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ identity ⓘ race ⓘ technology and modern life ⓘ |
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: Grand Union Description of subject: "Grand Union" is a short story collection by British author Zadie Smith that showcases her range through diverse voices, styles, and contemporary themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.