The Boy Grew Older (novel)
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The Boy Grew Older is a 1922 novel by American journalist and critic Heywood Broun that follows a young man’s coming-of-age amid social and moral challenges.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boy Grew Older (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9830397 — 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 Boy Grew Older (novel) Context triple: [Heywood Broun, notableWork, The Boy Grew Older (novel)]
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A.
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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B.
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Boy: Tales of Childhood is Roald Dahl’s autobiographical memoir recounting vivid, often darkly humorous stories from his early life and school days.
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C.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
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D.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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E.
Children of the Age
Children of the Age is a novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun that explores the psychological and social tensions of modernizing society.
- 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 Boy Grew Older (novel) Target entity description: The Boy Grew Older is a 1922 novel by American journalist and critic Heywood Broun that follows a young man’s coming-of-age amid social and moral challenges.
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A.
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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B.
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Boy: Tales of Childhood is Roald Dahl’s autobiographical memoir recounting vivid, often darkly humorous stories from his early life and school days.
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C.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
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D.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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E.
Children of the Age
Children of the Age is a novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun that explores the psychological and social tensions of modernizing society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Heywood Broun ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| authorOccupation |
journalist
ⓘ
literary critic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| follows | a young man’s coming-of-age ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age novel
ⓘ
social novel ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
moral challenges
ⓘ
social challenges ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1920s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1922 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Boy Grew Older (novel) Description of subject: The Boy Grew Older is a 1922 novel by American journalist and critic Heywood Broun that follows a young man’s coming-of-age amid social and moral challenges.
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