short story "Strange Gods"
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"Strange Gods" is a short story by Roxane Gay included in her collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of trauma, identity, and complex female experience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| short story "Strange Gods" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438809 — 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 "Strange Gods" Context triple: [Difficult Women, hasPart, short story "Strange Gods"]
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A.
The Day of Atonement (short story)
"The Day of Atonement" is a short story by Samson Raphaelson that inspired the landmark 1927 film "The Jazz Singer," exploring themes of Jewish identity, tradition, and assimilation in America.
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B.
Small Gods
Small Gods is a satirical fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set in his Discworld universe, exploring religion, belief, and institutional power through dark humor and philosophical insight.
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C.
The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
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D.
The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of interconnected science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury, framed by the eerie premise of a man whose living tattoos foretell the future.
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E.
The Trial of God
The Trial of God is a play by Elie Wiesel that dramatizes a mock trial of God in a Jewish village devastated by a pogrom, exploring faith, suffering, and divine justice in the shadow of the Holocaust.
- 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 "Strange Gods" Target entity description: "Strange Gods" is a short story by Roxane Gay included in her collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of trauma, identity, and complex female experience.
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A.
The Day of Atonement (short story)
"The Day of Atonement" is a short story by Samson Raphaelson that inspired the landmark 1927 film "The Jazz Singer," exploring themes of Jewish identity, tradition, and assimilation in America.
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B.
Small Gods
Small Gods is a satirical fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set in his Discworld universe, exploring religion, belief, and institutional power through dark humor and philosophical insight.
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C.
The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
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D.
The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of interconnected science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury, framed by the eerie premise of a man whose living tattoos foretell the future.
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E.
The Trial of God
The Trial of God is a play by Elie Wiesel that dramatizes a mock trial of God in a Jewish village devastated by a pogrom, exploring faith, suffering, and divine justice in the shadow of the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Roxane Gay ⓘ |
| authorEthnicity | Haitian American ⓘ |
| authorGender | female ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| collection | Difficult Women ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
coping mechanisms
ⓘ
emotional pain ⓘ family dynamics ⓘ intimate relationships ⓘ women ⓘ |
| includedInWork | Difficult Women ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fiction ⓘ |
| medium |
digital
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| publicationType | book chapter ⓘ |
| theme |
complex female experience
ⓘ
emotional abuse ⓘ gender ⓘ identity ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ relationships ⓘ survival ⓘ trauma ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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 "Strange Gods" Description of subject: "Strange Gods" is a short story by Roxane Gay included in her collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of trauma, identity, and complex female experience.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.