short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle
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The short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle is a darkly comic exploration of a young man's escalating deceptions and their consequences in contemporary American life.
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| short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20701710 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle Context triple: [The Lie, basedOn, short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle]
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short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
"The World to Come" is a historical short story by Jim Shepard that portrays the harsh isolation and emotional turmoil of a 19th-century frontier woman through her intimate diary entries.
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short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley
The short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley is a humorous coming-of-age tale about a working-class teenager who spends a transformative summer immersed in the flashy, seductive world of a private beach club.
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Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole"
Elmore Leonard’s short story "Fire in the Hole" is a crime tale featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens that served as the primary inspiration for the television series "Justified."
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short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
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short story "Needle in the Heart" by Richard Matheson
"Needle in the Heart" is a horror short story by Richard Matheson that served as the basis for one of the segments in the anthology film Trilogy of Terror.
- 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: short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle Target entity description: The short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle is a darkly comic exploration of a young man's escalating deceptions and their consequences in contemporary American life.
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A.
short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
"The World to Come" is a historical short story by Jim Shepard that portrays the harsh isolation and emotional turmoil of a 19th-century frontier woman through her intimate diary entries.
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B.
short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley
The short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley is a humorous coming-of-age tale about a working-class teenager who spends a transformative summer immersed in the flashy, seductive world of a private beach club.
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C.
Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole"
Elmore Leonard’s short story "Fire in the Hole" is a crime tale featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens that served as the primary inspiration for the television series "Justified."
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D.
short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
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E.
short story "Needle in the Heart" by Richard Matheson
"Needle in the Heart" is a horror short story by Richard Matheson that served as the basis for one of the segments in the anthology film Trilogy of Terror.
- F. None of above. chosen
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