Salvage the Bones
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Salvage the Bones is a National Book Award–winning novel by Jesmyn Ward that follows a poor Black family in rural Mississippi in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salvage the Bones canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3362207 — 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: Salvage the Bones Context triple: [Jesmyn Ward, notableWork, Salvage the Bones]
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A.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
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B.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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C.
The Corrections
The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
Suttree
Suttree is a darkly comic, richly detailed novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the drifting life of Cornelius Suttree along the Tennessee River in 1950s Knoxville.
- 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: Salvage the Bones Target entity description: Salvage the Bones is a National Book Award–winning novel by Jesmyn Ward that follows a poor Black family in rural Mississippi in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
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A.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
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B.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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C.
The Corrections
The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
Suttree
Suttree is a darkly comic, richly detailed novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the drifting life of Cornelius Suttree along the Tennessee River in 1950s Knoxville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Jesmyn Ward ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Book Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| focusesOn | poor Black family ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
Southern Gothic ⓘ coming-of-age novel ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRelationship |
Esch is sister of Junior
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Esch is sister of Randall ⓘ Esch is sister of Skeetah ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryAllusion | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
dogfighting
ⓘ
environmental catastrophe ⓘ teen pregnancy ⓘ |
| includedInList | contemporary American literature syllabi ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Esch
ⓘ
Junior ⓘ Randall ⓘ Skeetah ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter | Esch ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of Hurricane Katrina
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portrayal of rural Black life in the American South ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 260 ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | Black ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing
ⓘ
surface form:
Bloomsbury USA
|
| setDuringEvent | Hurricane Katrina ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| settingLocation | Mississippi ⓘ |
| settingRegion | rural Mississippi ⓘ |
| theme |
family
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masculinity ⓘ motherhood ⓘ natural disasters ⓘ poverty ⓘ race ⓘ resilience ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfNarrative | days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Salvage the Bones Description of subject: Salvage the Bones is a National Book Award–winning novel by Jesmyn Ward that follows a poor Black family in rural Mississippi in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Referenced by (3)
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subject surface form:
Jesmyn Ward