Fun Home
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Fun Home is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel that explores her complex relationship with her father and her own coming-of-age and coming-out.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fun Home canonical | 14 |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | 4 |
| Fun Home (musical) | 3 |
| Fun Home (Broadway production) | 2 |
| Broadway musical Fun Home | 1 |
| Fun Home (Broadway, 2015) | 1 |
| Fun Home (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | 1 |
| LGBTQ-themed musical Fun Home | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fun Home Context triple: [Alison Bechdel, notableWork, Fun Home]
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A.
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy is a landmark 1982 play (later adapted into a film) by Harvey Fierstein that follows the life, loves, and struggles of a gay drag performer in New York City.
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B.
Next to Normal
Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize–winning rock musical that explores a suburban family's struggle with mental illness and grief.
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C.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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D.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a 2018 coming-of-age drama film about a teenage girl sent to a gay conversion therapy center after being caught with another girl.
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E.
The Girl with the Curls
The Girl with the Curls is the famous nickname of silent film star Mary Pickford, who was renowned for her youthful roles and distinctive ringlet hairstyle.
- 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: Fun Home Target entity description: Fun Home is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel that explores her complex relationship with her father and her own coming-of-age and coming-out.
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A.
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy is a landmark 1982 play (later adapted into a film) by Harvey Fierstein that follows the life, loves, and struggles of a gay drag performer in New York City.
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B.
Next to Normal
Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize–winning rock musical that explores a suburban family's struggle with mental illness and grief.
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C.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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D.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a 2018 coming-of-age drama film about a teenage girl sent to a gay conversion therapy center after being caught with another girl.
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E.
The Girl with the Curls
The Girl with the Curls is the famous nickname of silent film star Mary Pickford, who was renowned for her youthful roles and distinctive ringlet hairstyle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American non-fiction book
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LGBT literature work ⓘ autobiographical comic ⓘ graphic memoir ⓘ |
| author | Alison Bechdel ⓘ |
| awarded |
GLAAD Media Award
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Stonewall Book Award ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| depicts |
closeted homosexuality
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coming out ⓘ family secrets ⓘ father–daughter relationship ⓘ lesbian identity ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT memoir
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graphic novel ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Fun Home (musical)
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linked to:
Fun Home
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| hasTheme |
death and grief
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family dynamics ⓘ literary allusion ⓘ sexual identity ⓘ |
| illustrator | Alison Bechdel ⓘ |
| influenced | acceptance of graphic memoirs in literary criticism ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-0-618-47794-4 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| listedIn | Time magazine Top 10 Books of 2006 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Alison Bechdel ⓘ |
| medium | comics ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
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linked to:
National Book Critics Circle Award
|
| pageCount | 232 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2006-06-08 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setIn | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| setting |
family house
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funeral home ⓘ |
| subject |
Alison Bechdel’s childhood
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Bruce Bechdel ⓘ literature and intertextuality ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult ⓘ |
| title |
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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linked to:
Fun Home
|
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