About Alice
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"About Alice" is a memoir by American writer Calvin Trillin that affectionately portrays the life, character, and enduring influence of his late wife, Alice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| About Alice canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12874694 — 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: About Alice Context triple: [Calvin Trillin, notableWork, About Alice]
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A.
The Alice
The Alice is a colloquial nickname for Alice Springs, a remote outback town in Australia’s Northern Territory known as a gateway to the Red Centre and Uluru.
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B.
The Annotated Alice
The Annotated Alice is Martin Gardner’s influential, commentary-rich edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, explaining their mathematical puzzles, wordplay, and cultural references.
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C.
All the Girls Love Alice
"All the Girls Love Alice" is a dark, narrative-driven rock song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin that tells the tragic story of a young lesbian woman, featured on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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D.
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice in Wonderland" is a classic 1951 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that adapts Lewis Carroll’s whimsical tales of a young girl’s surreal adventures in a nonsensical world.
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E.
Lookingglass Alice
Lookingglass Alice is a visually inventive stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories, blending acrobatics, physical theater, and surreal imagery in the signature style of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
- 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: About Alice Target entity description: "About Alice" is a memoir by American writer Calvin Trillin that affectionately portrays the life, character, and enduring influence of his late wife, Alice.
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A.
The Alice
The Alice is a colloquial nickname for Alice Springs, a remote outback town in Australia’s Northern Territory known as a gateway to the Red Centre and Uluru.
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B.
The Annotated Alice
The Annotated Alice is Martin Gardner’s influential, commentary-rich edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, explaining their mathematical puzzles, wordplay, and cultural references.
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C.
All the Girls Love Alice
"All the Girls Love Alice" is a dark, narrative-driven rock song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin that tells the tragic story of a young lesbian woman, featured on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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D.
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice in Wonderland" is a classic 1951 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that adapts Lewis Carroll’s whimsical tales of a young girl’s surreal adventures in a nonsensical world.
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E.
Lookingglass Alice
Lookingglass Alice is a visually inventive stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories, blending acrobatics, physical theater, and surreal imagery in the signature style of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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memoir ⓘ |
| author | Calvin Trillin ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of the author’s wife ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts | New York City ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Calvin Trillin ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely acclaimed by critics ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-4000-6471-0 ⓘ |
| hasNotableAspect |
affectionate portrayal of the author’s wife
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originated from a New Yorker piece ⓘ short length ⓘ |
| hasNotableReview |
praised for understated style
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praised for warmth and humor ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 80 pages ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
New York City
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSpouseCharacter | Alice Trillin ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasWritingStyle |
concise
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tender ⓘ wry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | nonfiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Alice Trillin
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family ⓘ grief ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedAs | essay in The New Yorker ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| portrays |
character of Alice Trillin
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influence of Alice Trillin ⓘ life of Alice Trillin ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Alice, Let’s Eat
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linked to:
Alice, Let's Eat
Messages from My Father ⓘ Travels with Alice ⓘ |
| theme |
celebration of ordinary life
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enduring love ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
early 21st century
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second half of the 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: About Alice Description of subject: "About Alice" is a memoir by American writer Calvin Trillin that affectionately portrays the life, character, and enduring influence of his late wife, Alice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.