In the House of the Interpreter
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"In the House of the Interpreter" is a memoir by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recounting his experiences at a colonial-era boarding school and the political upheavals of Kenya’s struggle for independence.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| In the House of the Interpreter canonical | 3 |
| House of the Interpreter | 1 |
| the House of the Interpreter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5366826 — 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: In the House of the Interpreter Context triple: [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, notableWork, In the House of the Interpreter]
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The Seer
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The Jewel That Was Ours
The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
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C.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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Book of the Sleeping
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Whisperers
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- 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: In the House of the Interpreter Target entity description: "In the House of the Interpreter" is a memoir by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recounting his experiences at a colonial-era boarding school and the political upheavals of Kenya’s struggle for independence.
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A.
The Seer
The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
-
B.
The Jewel That Was Ours
The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
-
C.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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D.
Book of the Sleeping
Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
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E.
Whisperers
The Whisperers are a brutal post-apocalyptic cult in The Walking Dead universe who survive by wearing the skins of walkers and living among the dead.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ⓘ |
| authorEthnicity | Gikuyu ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Kenyan ⓘ |
| continuesStoryFrom |
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir
ⓘ
linked to:
Dreams in a Time of War
|
| countryOfOrigin | Kenya ⓘ |
| coverSubject | Alliance High School in colonial Kenya ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| describes |
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s experiences at a colonial-era boarding school
ⓘ
political upheavals during Kenya’s struggle for independence ⓘ |
| follows | Dreams in a Time of War ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780307907692 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
clash between tradition and modernity
ⓘ
formation of political consciousness ⓘ impact of colonialism on education ⓘ loss of home and land ⓘ memory and testimony ⓘ violence of the colonial state ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | non-fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| mainLocation | Alliance High School ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed portrayal of colonial-era Kenyan boarding school life
ⓘ
linking personal memory with national history ⓘ |
| pageCountApprox | 250 ⓘ |
| partOf | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o memoir series ⓘ |
| protagonist | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Heinemann
ⓘ
linked to:
Heinemann publishing group
Pantheon Books ⓘ |
| region | East African literature ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Birth of a Dream Weaver
ⓘ
Dreams in a Time of War ⓘ |
| setting | Kenya ⓘ |
| settingContext | British colonial rule in Kenya ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| subject |
Kenyan nationalism
ⓘ
Mau Mau Emergency ⓘ
linked to:
Mau Mau Uprising
anti-colonial resistance ⓘ colonial education in Kenya ⓘ family displacement ⓘ identity and language ⓘ |
| timeInAuthorLife | adolescence ⓘ |
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Instruction
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