Part One: Folk Tales
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Part One: Folk Tales is the opening section of Zora Neale Hurston’s book *Mules and Men*, presenting a collection of African American folk stories she gathered during her anthropological fieldwork.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Part One: Folk Tales canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Part One: Folk Tales Context triple: [Mules and Men, hasPart, Part One: Folk Tales]
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A.
Tales
Tales is a collection of short stories by Amiri Baraka that reflects his politically charged, experimental, and African American–centered literary style.
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B.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.
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C.
Fables
Fables is a collection of satirical verse tales by John Gay that use animal characters and moral lessons to comment on human nature and society.
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D.
Fables
Fables is a collection of medieval verse tales by Marie de France that adapt and moralize traditional animal stories and folktales.
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E.
Fables
Fables is a comic book series created by Bill Willingham that reimagines classic fairy-tale and folklore characters living in exile in modern-day New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Part One: Folk Tales Target entity description: Part One: Folk Tales is the opening section of Zora Neale Hurston’s book *Mules and Men*, presenting a collection of African American folk stories she gathered during her anthropological fieldwork.
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A.
Tales
Tales is a collection of short stories by Amiri Baraka that reflects his politically charged, experimental, and African American–centered literary style.
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B.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.
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C.
Fables
Fables is a collection of satirical verse tales by John Gay that use animal characters and moral lessons to comment on human nature and society.
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D.
Fables
Fables is a collection of medieval verse tales by Marie de France that adapt and moralize traditional animal stories and folktales.
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E.
Fables
Fables is a comic book series created by Bill Willingham that reimagines classic fairy-tale and folklore characters living in exile in modern-day New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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literary work ⓘ |
| author | Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hurston's anthropological fieldwork ⓘ |
| collectionOf | African American folk tales ⓘ |
| contains |
dialogue in African American Vernacular English
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frame narrative featuring Zora Neale Hurston as a character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfStudy |
anthropology
ⓘ
folklore studies ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
African American oral tradition
ⓘ
Southern United States communities ⓘ |
| followedBy | Part Two: Hoodoo ⓘ |
| genre |
anthropological literature
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folklore ⓘ |
| hasPart |
individual folk tales
ⓘ
interludes of social interaction among tellers ⓘ |
| includedIn |
African American literature
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surface form:
African American literature canon
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| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person ⓘ |
| partOf | Mules and Men ⓘ |
| precededBy | front matter of Mules and Men ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| publisher |
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
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| setting |
Eatonville, Florida, United States
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surface form:
Eatonville, Florida
other Southern Black communities ⓘ |
| subject |
Black cultural expression
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community storytelling practices ⓘ humor in folk narratives ⓘ trickster figures in folklore ⓘ |
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Subject: Part One: Folk Tales Description of subject: Part One: Folk Tales is the opening section of Zora Neale Hurston’s book *Mules and Men*, presenting a collection of African American folk stories she gathered during her anthropological fieldwork.
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