A Long Way from Home
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A Long Way from Home is Claude McKay’s 1937 autobiographical work recounting his life as a Jamaican-born writer and activist navigating race, politics, and exile in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Long Way from Home canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2823378 — 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: A Long Way from Home Context triple: [Claude McKay, notableWork, A Long Way from Home]
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A.
A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences.
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B.
Almost Home
Almost Home is an American sitcom starring Reagan Gomez-Preston that follows a young woman starting over in Los Angeles while pursuing her dreams.
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C.
All the Way Home
"All the Way Home" is a song by Bruce Springsteen that appears on his 2005 album *Devils & Dust*.
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D.
Leave Home
Leave Home is the Ramones’ second studio album, a seminal 1977 punk rock release known for its fast, catchy songs and influence on the genre’s development.
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E.
A Sort of Homecoming
A Sort of Homecoming is a song by Irish rock band U2, known as the atmospheric opening track of their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire.
- 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: A Long Way from Home Target entity description: A Long Way from Home is Claude McKay’s 1937 autobiographical work recounting his life as a Jamaican-born writer and activist navigating race, politics, and exile in the early 20th century.
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A.
A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences.
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B.
Almost Home
Almost Home is an American sitcom starring Reagan Gomez-Preston that follows a young woman starting over in Los Angeles while pursuing her dreams.
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C.
All the Way Home
"All the Way Home" is a song by Bruce Springsteen that appears on his 2005 album *Devils & Dust*.
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D.
Leave Home
Leave Home is the Ramones’ second studio album, a seminal 1977 punk rock release known for its fast, catchy songs and influence on the genre’s development.
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E.
A Sort of Homecoming
A Sort of Homecoming is a song by Irish rock band U2, known as the atmospheric opening track of their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobiography
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Claude McKay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depictsTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| describes |
Black intellectual life in the early 20th century
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Claude McKay’s experiences with racism ⓘ Claude McKay’s political evolution ⓘ Claude McKay’s travels abroad ⓘ leftist political circles ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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political memoir ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
colonialism and its legacies
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migration ⓘ political disillusionment ⓘ racial identity ⓘ search for belonging ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Harlem Renaissance ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Claude McKay
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Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Jamaican diaspora ⓘ communism ⓘ exile ⓘ politics ⓘ race relations ⓘ |
| notableFor |
account of a Black Caribbean writer in global leftist movements
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critique of racism in the United States and Europe ⓘ insider view of the Harlem Renaissance ⓘ |
| partOfAuthor’sOeuvre | Claude McKay bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Banana Bottom
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Banjo ⓘ Home to Harlem ⓘ |
| setting |
Europe
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Harlem ⓘ
surface form:
Harlem, New York City
Jamaica ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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Input
Subject: A Long Way from Home Description of subject: A Long Way from Home is Claude McKay’s 1937 autobiographical work recounting his life as a Jamaican-born writer and activist navigating race, politics, and exile in the early 20th century.
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