The Thing Around Your Neck
E553919
The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that explores themes of identity, migration, gender, and power through the lives of Nigerians at home and in the diaspora.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Thing Around Your Neck canonical | 1 |
| The Thing Around Your Neck (short story) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5909419 — 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 Thing Around Your Neck Context triple: [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, notableWork, The Thing Around Your Neck]
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A.
Season of Migration to the North
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B.
Anthills of the Savannah
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C.
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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D.
No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease is a novel by Chinua Achebe that explores the moral and cultural conflicts faced by a young Nigerian civil servant in the late colonial era.
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E.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
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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: The Thing Around Your Neck Target entity description: The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that explores themes of identity, migration, gender, and power through the lives of Nigerians at home and in the diaspora.
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A.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North is a landmark 1966 novel by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih that explores themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural conflict between Europe and Africa.
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B.
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah is a political novel by Chinua Achebe that explores power, corruption, and resistance in a fictional postcolonial African state.
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C.
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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D.
No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease is a novel by Chinua Achebe that explores the moral and cultural conflicts faced by a young Nigerian civil servant in the late colonial era.
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E.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory is a critically acclaimed debut novel by Edwidge Danticat that explores themes of Haitian identity, trauma, and mother-daughter relationships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Nigerian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Nigeria ⓘ |
| explores |
class and social inequality
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cultural displacement ⓘ family relationships ⓘ immigrant experience in the United States ⓘ political violence ⓘ religion ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| followedBy | Americanah ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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short stories ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
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e-book ⓘ hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasStory |
A Private Experience
ⓘ
Cell One ⓘ Ghosts ⓘ Imitation ⓘ Jumping Monkey Hill ⓘ On Monday of Last Week ⓘ The American Embassy ⓘ The Arrangers of Marriage ⓘ The Headstrong Historian ⓘ The Shivering ⓘ The Thing Around Your Neck (short story) ⓘ
linked to:
The Thing Around Your Neck
Tomorrow Is Too Far ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary African literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Nigerian diaspora
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gender ⓘ identity ⓘ migration ⓘ power ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Nigerians at home and in the diaspora ⓘ |
| numberOfStories | 12 ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 2009-04-14 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Half of a Yellow Sun ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Alfred A. Knopf
ⓘ
Fourth Estate ⓘ |
| setting |
Nigeria
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: The Thing Around Your Neck Description of subject: The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that explores themes of identity, migration, gender, and power through the lives of Nigerians at home and in the diaspora.
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linked to: The Thing Around Your Neck