I Could See the Smallest Things
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"I Could See the Smallest Things" is a short story by Raymond Carver that quietly explores everyday tension and emotional distance within a troubled marriage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Could See the Smallest Things canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12875658 — 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: I Could See the Smallest Things Context triple: [What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, containsShortStory, I Could See the Smallest Things]
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A.
All the Small Things
"All the Small Things" is a 1999 pop-punk hit by Blink-182 known for its catchy melody, humorous music video, and mainstream breakthrough success.
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B.
All the Small Things
All the Small Things is a British television drama series centered on the lives and relationships within a church choir community.
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C.
A Small Thing but My Own
A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
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D.
These Things Too
"These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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E.
I Can Almost See It
"I Can Almost See It" is a song featured on Linda Ronstadt’s 1973 country-rock album "Don't Cry Now."
- 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: I Could See the Smallest Things Target entity description: "I Could See the Smallest Things" is a short story by Raymond Carver that quietly explores everyday tension and emotional distance within a troubled marriage.
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A.
All the Small Things
"All the Small Things" is a 1999 pop-punk hit by Blink-182 known for its catchy melody, humorous music video, and mainstream breakthrough success.
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B.
All the Small Things
All the Small Things is a British television drama series centered on the lives and relationships within a church choir community.
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C.
A Small Thing but My Own
A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
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D.
These Things Too
"These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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E.
I Can Almost See It
"I Can Almost See It" is a song featured on Linda Ronstadt’s 1973 country-rock album "Don't Cry Now."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Raymond Carver ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts | troubled marriage ⓘ |
| explores |
emotional estrangement
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everyday tension ⓘ intimate relationships ⓘ |
| focusesOn | domestic life ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short story fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Raymond Carver ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | married couple ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | minimalism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
communication breakdown
ⓘ
emotional distance ⓘ everyday life ⓘ marital tension ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | minimalist ⓘ |
| tone |
quiet
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subtle ⓘ |
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: I Could See the Smallest Things Description of subject: "I Could See the Smallest Things" is a short story by Raymond Carver that quietly explores everyday tension and emotional distance within a troubled marriage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.