The Monk of Mokha
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The Monk of Mokha is a nonfiction book by Dave Eggers that chronicles the true story of a young Yemeni American’s quest to revive Yemen’s coffee industry amid civil war and personal danger.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Monk of Mokha canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070840 — 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: The Monk of Mokha Context triple: [Dave Eggers, notableWork, The Monk of Mokha]
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A.
The Monastery
"The Monastery" is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott set on the turbulent Scottish-English border during the Reformation, blending romance, politics, and the supernatural.
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B.
The Monastery
The Monastery is a monumental rock-cut façade and temple in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan, renowned for its massive scale and striking Hellenistic-influenced architecture.
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C.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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D.
The Monk
The Monk is a mysterious, ageless Tibetan warrior-monk who protects a powerful ancient scroll in the action film "Bulletproof Monk."
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E.
The Dervish House
The Dervish House is a near-future science fiction novel by Ian McDonald set in Istanbul, weaving together multiple characters’ stories around nanotechnology, politics, and cultural change.
- 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: The Monk of Mokha Target entity description: The Monk of Mokha is a nonfiction book by Dave Eggers that chronicles the true story of a young Yemeni American’s quest to revive Yemen’s coffee industry amid civil war and personal danger.
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A.
The Monastery
"The Monastery" is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott set on the turbulent Scottish-English border during the Reformation, blending romance, politics, and the supernatural.
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B.
The Monastery
The Monastery is a monumental rock-cut façade and temple in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan, renowned for its massive scale and striking Hellenistic-influenced architecture.
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C.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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D.
The Monk
The Monk is a mysterious, ageless Tibetan warrior-monk who protects a powerful ancient scroll in the action film "Bulletproof Monk."
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E.
The Dervish House
The Dervish House is a near-future science fiction novel by Ian McDonald set in Istanbul, weaving together multiple characters’ stories around nanotechnology, politics, and cultural change.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
Yemeni civil war
ⓘ
coffee cultivation ⓘ coffee trade ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Yemeni American experience
ⓘ
entrepreneurship ⓘ migration ⓘ war and conflict ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
narrative nonfiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-7352-2371-0 ⓘ |
| hasPlaceInSeries | standalone work ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Mokhtar Alkhanshali ⓘ |
| hasReviewIn |
NPR
ⓘ
linked to:
National Public Radio
The Guardian ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
civil war in Yemen
ⓘ
cross-cultural identity ⓘ development economics ⓘ diaspora communities ⓘ global trade ⓘ historical origins of coffee ⓘ risk-taking ⓘ social entrepreneurship ⓘ specialty coffee ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryAwardNomination | California Book Awards (nonfiction) (shortlist) ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Mokhtar Alkhanshali
ⓘ
Yemen ⓘ coffee industry ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
chronicling revival of Yemen’s specialty coffee industry
ⓘ
depicting personal risk during Yemeni civil war ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 320 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2018-01-30 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setting |
San Francisco
ⓘ
Yemen ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | early 21st century ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | Mokha (Yemeni port city associated with coffee) ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
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