This Boy
E372049
"This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Boy canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3594294 — 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: This Boy Context triple: [Alan Johnson, notableWork, This Boy]
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A.
Dear Boy
"Dear Boy" is a song by the Indian musician Ram.
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B.
One of the Boys
"One of the Boys" is the 2008 major-label breakthrough pop album by Katy Perry, featuring hits like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" that established her international fame.
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C.
American Boy
"American Boy" is a 2008 dance-pop and R&B hit single by British singer Estelle featuring Kanye West, known for its catchy hook and transatlantic romance theme.
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D.
The Boy
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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E.
Kill the Boy
"Kill the Boy" is a track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
- 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: This Boy Target entity description: "This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
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A.
Dear Boy
"Dear Boy" is a song by the Indian musician Ram.
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B.
One of the Boys
"One of the Boys" is the 2008 major-label breakthrough pop album by Katy Perry, featuring hits like "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" that established her international fame.
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C.
American Boy
"American Boy" is a 2008 dance-pop and R&B hit single by British singer Estelle featuring Kanye West, known for its catchy hook and transatlantic romance theme.
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D.
The Boy
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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E.
Kill the Boy
"Kill the Boy" is a track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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memoir ⓘ |
| author | Alan Johnson ⓘ |
| awarded |
Ondaatje Prize
ⓘ
linked to:
RSL Ondaatje Prize
RSL Ondaatje Prize 2014 ⓘ
linked to:
RSL Ondaatje Prize
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
social conditions in post-war Britain
ⓘ
working-class life in Britain ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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memoir ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Please, Mister Postman
ⓘ
The Long and Winding Road ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780593068004 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Alan Johnson ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
insight into Alan Johnson's early life
ⓘ
portrayal of poverty in post-war London ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| publisher | Bantam Press ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| settingPeriod | post-World War II era ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor |
Costa Biography Award
ⓘ
Costa Book Awards ⓘ
linked to:
Whitbread Book Award
|
| subjectMatter |
impoverished childhood
ⓘ
post-war London ⓘ |
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: This Boy Description of subject: "This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.