short story "How"
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"How" is a short story included in Roxane Gay's collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of womanhood, trauma, and complex relationships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| short story "How" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438801 — 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: short story "How" Context triple: [Difficult Women, hasPart, short story "How"]
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A.
Longreads
Longreads is an online publication and curation platform focused on long-form journalism, essays, and in-depth storytelling from across the web.
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B.
Stories That Matter
Stories That Matter is the guiding motto of the Peabody Awards, emphasizing their focus on honoring impactful and socially significant storytelling in media.
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C.
Storyteller
"Storyteller" is a seminal work of the Native American Renaissance that blends traditional Indigenous oral narratives with contemporary literary forms to explore Native identity and cultural continuity.
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D.
Mary: A Fiction
"Mary: A Fiction" is an early feminist novel by Mary Wollstonecraft that explores the emotional and intellectual struggles of a young woman constrained by 18th-century social norms.
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E.
This Is My Story
This Is My Story is an autobiographical book by Eleanor Roosevelt recounting her early life, personal challenges, and path to public service and activism.
- 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: short story "How" Target entity description: "How" is a short story included in Roxane Gay's collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of womanhood, trauma, and complex relationships.
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A.
Longreads
Longreads is an online publication and curation platform focused on long-form journalism, essays, and in-depth storytelling from across the web.
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B.
Stories That Matter
Stories That Matter is the guiding motto of the Peabody Awards, emphasizing their focus on honoring impactful and socially significant storytelling in media.
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C.
Storyteller
"Storyteller" is a seminal work of the Native American Renaissance that blends traditional Indigenous oral narratives with contemporary literary forms to explore Native identity and cultural continuity.
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D.
Mary: A Fiction
"Mary: A Fiction" is an early feminist novel by Mary Wollstonecraft that explores the emotional and intellectual struggles of a young woman constrained by 18th-century social norms.
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E.
This Is My Story
This Is My Story is an autobiographical book by Eleanor Roosevelt recounting her early life, personal challenges, and path to public service and activism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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short story ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| author |
Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
literary fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Difficult Women ⓘ |
| language |
English
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English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Untamed State
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Bad Feminist ⓘ Difficult Women ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| publisher | Grove Press ⓘ |
| theme |
complex relationships
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emotional abuse ⓘ gender dynamics ⓘ power imbalance ⓘ sexuality ⓘ trauma ⓘ violence ⓘ womanhood ⓘ |
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: short story "How" Description of subject: "How" is a short story included in Roxane Gay's collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of womanhood, trauma, and complex relationships.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.