Remembering Mr. Maugham
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"Remembering Mr. Maugham" is a memoir by Garson Kanin reflecting on his friendship and experiences with the British writer W. Somerset Maugham.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Remembering Mr. Maugham canonical | 1 |
| Remembering Mr. Maugham (book) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9982920 — 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: Remembering Mr. Maugham Context triple: [Garson Kanin, notableWork, Remembering Mr. Maugham]
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A.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
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B.
The Unfortunate Traveller
The Unfortunate Traveller is a 1594 picaresque prose narrative by Thomas Nashe that follows the violent, satirical adventures of the roguish page Jack Wilton across Renaissance Europe.
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C.
The Skin Game
The Skin Game is a 1920 play by English writer John Galsworthy that explores class conflict and moral compromise through a bitter feud between an old aristocratic family and a nouveau riche industrialist.
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D.
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
Miss Muriel and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American writer Ann Petry that explores African American life and social realities with sharp psychological insight.
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E.
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 romantic drama film, based on Graham Greene’s novel, about a passionate but doomed love affair set in World War II–era London.
- 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: Remembering Mr. Maugham Target entity description: "Remembering Mr. Maugham" is a memoir by Garson Kanin reflecting on his friendship and experiences with the British writer W. Somerset Maugham.
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A.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
-
B.
The Unfortunate Traveller
The Unfortunate Traveller is a 1594 picaresque prose narrative by Thomas Nashe that follows the violent, satirical adventures of the roguish page Jack Wilton across Renaissance Europe.
-
C.
The Skin Game
The Skin Game is a 1920 play by English writer John Galsworthy that explores class conflict and moral compromise through a bitter feud between an old aristocratic family and a nouveau riche industrialist.
-
D.
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
Miss Muriel and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American writer Ann Petry that explores African American life and social realities with sharp psychological insight.
-
E.
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 romantic drama film, based on Graham Greene’s novel, about a passionate but doomed love affair set in World War II–era London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| about |
friendship between Garson Kanin and W. Somerset Maugham
ⓘ
life of W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ personal reminiscences of Garson Kanin ⓘ |
| author | Garson Kanin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
Garson Kanin
ⓘ
W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| genre | biographical memoir ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
20th-century writers
ⓘ
British literature ⓘ authors' friendships ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | non-fiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject | W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| setting | 20th century ⓘ |
| workFocus |
character study of W. Somerset Maugham
ⓘ
personal experiences with W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Remembering Mr. Maugham Description of subject: "Remembering Mr. Maugham" is a memoir by Garson Kanin reflecting on his friendship and experiences with the British writer W. Somerset Maugham.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Remembering Mr. Maugham