My Family and Other Animals
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My Family and Other Animals is a humorous autobiographical book by naturalist Gerald Durrell recounting his eccentric family's life and his childhood wildlife adventures on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| My Family and Other Animals canonical | 10 |
| My Family and Other Animals (TV film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759962 — 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: My Family and Other Animals Context triple: [The Durrells in Corfu, hasLiterarySource, My Family and Other Animals]
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Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by David Mitchell that follows a year in the life of a stammering teenage boy in 1980s rural England.
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B.
The Story of My Childhood
The Story of My Childhood is an autobiographical work by American nurse and humanitarian Clara Barton, recounting her early life experiences that shaped her later role as founder of the American Red Cross.
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C.
Now We Are Six
Now We Are Six is a 1927 collection of children’s poems by A. A. Milne, featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and friends, known for its whimsical verse and classic illustrations.
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A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
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E.
Wise Children
Wise Children is a 1991 novel by Angela Carter that blends magical realism, Shakespearean allusion, and bawdy humor to explore themes of legitimacy, performance, and family through the lives of twin chorus girls.
- 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: My Family and Other Animals Target entity description: My Family and Other Animals is a humorous autobiographical book by naturalist Gerald Durrell recounting his eccentric family's life and his childhood wildlife adventures on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
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A.
Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by David Mitchell that follows a year in the life of a stammering teenage boy in 1980s rural England.
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B.
The Story of My Childhood
The Story of My Childhood is an autobiographical work by American nurse and humanitarian Clara Barton, recounting her early life experiences that shaped her later role as founder of the American Red Cross.
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C.
Now We Are Six
Now We Are Six is a 1927 collection of children’s poems by A. A. Milne, featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and friends, known for its whimsical verse and classic illustrations.
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D.
A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
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E.
Wise Children
Wise Children is a 1991 novel by Angela Carter that blends magical realism, Shakespearean allusion, and bawdy humor to explore themes of legitimacy, performance, and family through the lives of twin chorus girls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: My Family and Other Animals Description of subject: My Family and Other Animals is a humorous autobiographical book by naturalist Gerald Durrell recounting his eccentric family's life and his childhood wildlife adventures on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.