Year Before Last
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"Year Before Last" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle, recognized as one of her significant modernist works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Year Before Last canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288176 — 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: Year Before Last Context triple: [Kay Boyle, notableWork, Year Before Last]
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A.
Two Years Ago
"Two Years Ago" is a Victorian-era novel by Charles Kingsley that reflects the ideals of Muscular Christianity through its blend of moral earnestness, social critique, and adventure.
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B.
Ayer
Ayer is a small town in north-central Massachusetts that functions as a regional commuter hub with rail connections to Boston.
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C.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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D.
Last Last
"Last Last" is a 2022 Afrobeats song by Nigerian artist Burna Boy that blends emotional lyrics about heartbreak with a sample of Toni Braxton’s "He Wasn't Man Enough."
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E.
Life of the Past
Life of the Past is a seminal book by paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson that explores the history, evolution, and diversity of ancient life on Earth.
- 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: Year Before Last Target entity description: "Year Before Last" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle, recognized as one of her significant modernist works.
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A.
Two Years Ago
"Two Years Ago" is a Victorian-era novel by Charles Kingsley that reflects the ideals of Muscular Christianity through its blend of moral earnestness, social critique, and adventure.
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B.
Ayer
Ayer is a small town in north-central Massachusetts that functions as a regional commuter hub with rail connections to Boston.
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C.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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D.
Last Last
"Last Last" is a 2022 Afrobeats song by Nigerian artist Burna Boy that blends emotional lyrics about heartbreak with a sample of Toni Braxton’s "He Wasn't Man Enough."
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E.
Life of the Past
Life of the Past is a seminal book by paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson that explores the history, evolution, and diversity of ancient life on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Kay Boyle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
fiction
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modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasNationalityOfAuthor | American ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of Kay Boyle's significant modernist works ⓘ |
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: Year Before Last Description of subject: "Year Before Last" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle, recognized as one of her significant modernist works.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.