The Only Story
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The Only Story is a 2018 novel by British author Julian Barnes that explores a young man's life-defining love affair with an older, married woman and its lasting emotional consequences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Only Story canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5077543 — 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: The Only Story Context triple: [Julian Barnes, notableWork, The Only Story]
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A.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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B.
Banal Story
"Banal Story" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway included in his 1927 collection *Men Without Women*, noted for its experimental, metafictional narrative style.
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C.
A Strange Story
A Strange Story is an 1862 supernatural novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that blends occult themes with psychological and philosophical exploration.
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D.
Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale is Gabriel García Márquez’s memoir, recounting his early life and the experiences that shaped him as a writer.
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E.
Some Stories
Some Stories is a collection of short works included within Hannah Arendt’s philosophical study The Human Condition.
- 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: The Only Story Target entity description: The Only Story is a 2018 novel by British author Julian Barnes that explores a young man's life-defining love affair with an older, married woman and its lasting emotional consequences.
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A.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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B.
Banal Story
"Banal Story" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway included in his 1927 collection *Men Without Women*, noted for its experimental, metafictional narrative style.
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C.
A Strange Story
A Strange Story is an 1862 supernatural novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that blends occult themes with psychological and philosophical exploration.
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D.
Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale is Gabriel García Márquez’s memoir, recounting his early life and the experiences that shaped him as a writer.
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E.
Some Stories
Some Stories is a collection of short works included within Hannah Arendt’s philosophical study The Human Condition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Julian Barnes ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
age-gap relationship
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alcoholism ⓘ emotional trauma ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ memory ⓘ regret ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Man in the Red Coat ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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psychological fiction ⓘ romantic novel ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Suzanne Dean ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9781787330696 ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStructure |
retrospective narration
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shifting narrative voice ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 224 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
emotional consequences of love
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family conflict ⓘ interpersonal relationships ⓘ social conventions in mid-20th-century England ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| literaryForm | novel ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Paul
ⓘ
Susan ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of memory and subjectivity in love
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portrayal of a life-defining first love ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Julian Barnes bibliography ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| precededBy | The Noise of Time ⓘ |
| protagonistAgeAtStart | 19 ⓘ |
| protagonistRelationship | love affair with an older married woman ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2018 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| setting | Surrey ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
1960s
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late 20th century ⓘ |
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: The Only Story Description of subject: The Only Story is a 2018 novel by British author Julian Barnes that explores a young man's life-defining love affair with an older, married woman and its lasting emotional consequences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.