Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a Pulitzer Prize–winning work of narrative nonfiction that examines race, class, and school desegregation in Boston through the intertwined stories of three families.
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| Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families canonical | 1 |
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12268753 — 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)
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Target entity: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Context triple: [J. Anthony Lukas, notableWork, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families]
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A World Apart
A World Apart is a 1988 British drama film set in apartheid-era South Africa, focusing on the relationship between a young girl and her activist mother.
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A World Apart
"A World Apart" is a memoir by Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński that recounts his harrowing experiences in a Soviet Gulag during World War II.
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The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on national identity, race, and belonging, particularly through his experiences living abroad.
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American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.
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E.
Just Us: An American Conversation
Just Us: An American Conversation is a hybrid work of essays, poetry, images, and conversations by Claudia Rankine that examines race, whiteness, and contemporary American life through intimate, often uncomfortable dialogues.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Target entity description: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a Pulitzer Prize–winning work of narrative nonfiction that examines race, class, and school desegregation in Boston through the intertwined stories of three families.
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A.
A World Apart
A World Apart is a 1988 British drama film set in apartheid-era South Africa, focusing on the relationship between a young girl and her activist mother.
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B.
A World Apart
"A World Apart" is a memoir by Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński that recounts his harrowing experiences in a Soviet Gulag during World War II.
-
C.
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on national identity, race, and belonging, particularly through his experiences living abroad.
-
D.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Philip Roth that explores the disintegration of the American Dream through the tragic unraveling of a seemingly ideal postwar family.
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E.
Just Us: An American Conversation
Just Us: An American Conversation is a hybrid work of essays, poetry, images, and conversations by Claudia Rankine that examines race, whiteness, and contemporary American life through intimate, often uncomfortable dialogues.
- F. None of above. chosen
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J. Anthony Lukas
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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