Mean Spirit
E143136
Mean Spirit is a novel by Linda Hogan that explores the exploitation and resilience of an Osage community during the Oklahoma oil boom, and is considered a key work of the Native American Renaissance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mean Spirit canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258369 — 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: Mean Spirit Context triple: [Native American Renaissance, hasInfluentialWork, Mean Spirit]
-
A.
Conjure Cognac
Conjure Cognac is a premium cognac brand co-created and promoted by rapper and actor Ludacris as part of his ventures into the spirits industry.
-
B.
L’Absinthe
L’Absinthe is a famous 1876 painting by Edgar Degas depicting two isolated café drinkers, often interpreted as a stark portrayal of modern urban alienation and the social effects of absinthe drinking in Paris.
-
C.
Brandy
Brandy is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress known for her distinctive vocal style and hits such as "The Boy Is Mine" and "Have You Ever?".
-
D.
Margarita
Margarita is a feminine given name of Spanish origin, equivalent to "Margaret" in English.
-
E.
Angostura bitters
Angostura bitters is a concentrated aromatic bitters made from herbs and spices, widely used in classic cocktails and as a flavoring in beverages and food.
- 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: Mean Spirit Target entity description: Mean Spirit is a novel by Linda Hogan that explores the exploitation and resilience of an Osage community during the Oklahoma oil boom, and is considered a key work of the Native American Renaissance.
-
A.
Conjure Cognac
Conjure Cognac is a premium cognac brand co-created and promoted by rapper and actor Ludacris as part of his ventures into the spirits industry.
-
B.
L’Absinthe
L’Absinthe is a famous 1876 painting by Edgar Degas depicting two isolated café drinkers, often interpreted as a stark portrayal of modern urban alienation and the social effects of absinthe drinking in Paris.
-
C.
Brandy
Brandy is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress known for her distinctive vocal style and hits such as "The Boy Is Mine" and "Have You Ever?".
-
D.
Margarita
Margarita is a feminine given name of Spanish origin, equivalent to "Margaret" in English.
-
E.
Angostura bitters
Angostura bitters is a concentrated aromatic bitters made from herbs and spices, widely used in classic cocktails and as a flavoring in beverages and food.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Linda Hogan ⓘ |
| awarded |
Oklahoma Book Award finalist
ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ
surface form:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts | Osage murders ⓘ |
| featuresEthnicGroup | Osage Nation ⓘ |
| genre |
Native American literature
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthorEthnicity |
Linda Hogan
ⓘ
surface form:
Chickasaw (Linda Hogan)
|
| hasEthnicPerspective | Native American ⓘ |
| isNotableFor |
portrayal of Osage community during oil boom
ⓘ
status as key work of Native American Renaissance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Native American Renaissance ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Oklahoma oil boom
ⓘ
Osage Nation ⓘ
surface form:
Osage people
cultural resilience ⓘ exploitation of Indigenous communities ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ⓘ
surface form:
Atheneum
|
| settingLocation | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1920s ⓘ |
| theme |
colonial violence
ⓘ
community resilience ⓘ environmental justice ⓘ greed and resource extraction ⓘ spirituality and tradition ⓘ |
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: Mean Spirit Description of subject: Mean Spirit is a novel by Linda Hogan that explores the exploitation and resilience of an Osage community during the Oklahoma oil boom, and is considered a key work of the Native American Renaissance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.