Akata Witch
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Akata Witch is a young adult fantasy novel by Nnedi Okorafor that follows a Nigerian-American girl who discovers her magical heritage within a secret society of Leopard People in Nigeria.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Akata Warrior | 2 |
| Akata Witch canonical | 2 |
| Akata Woman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6066570 — 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: Akata Witch Context triple: [Nnedi Okorafor, notableWork, Akata Witch]
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A.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
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B.
The Diviners
The Diviners is a landmark Canadian novel by Margaret Laurence that explores identity, memory, and women's lives in a small prairie town, and is widely regarded as one of the most important works in Canadian literature.
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C.
The Witches
The Witches is a darkly comic children's fantasy novel by Roald Dahl about a young boy who discovers a secret society of child-hating witches plotting to eliminate all children.
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D.
The Little Sister
The Little Sister is a 1949 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex case involving Hollywood corruption and deception.
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E.
The Magic
The Magic is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that expands on the themes of The Secret by focusing on the transformative power of gratitude.
- 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: Akata Witch Target entity description: Akata Witch is a young adult fantasy novel by Nnedi Okorafor that follows a Nigerian-American girl who discovers her magical heritage within a secret society of Leopard People in Nigeria.
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A.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
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B.
The Diviners
The Diviners is a landmark Canadian novel by Margaret Laurence that explores identity, memory, and women's lives in a small prairie town, and is widely regarded as one of the most important works in Canadian literature.
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C.
The Witches
The Witches is a darkly comic children's fantasy novel by Roald Dahl about a young boy who discovers a secret society of child-hating witches plotting to eliminate all children.
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D.
The Little Sister
The Little Sister is a 1949 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex case involving Hollywood corruption and deception.
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E.
The Magic
The Magic is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that expands on the themes of The Secret by focusing on the transformative power of gratitude.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | What Sunny Saw in the Flames ⓘ |
| author | Nnedi Okorafor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | Cliff Nielsen ⓘ |
| depicts | a secret magical society in Nigeria ⓘ |
| features | Leopard People ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Chichi
ⓘ
Orlu ⓘ Sasha ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| follows | a Nigerian-American girl who discovers her magical heritage ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
young adult fantasy ⓘ |
| hasMagicSystem | Leopard People juju ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Akata Warrior
ⓘ
linked to:
Akata Witch
|
| intendedMarket | English-language readers ⓘ |
| literarySetting |
Abuja
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sunny Nwazue ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending Nigerian folklore with fantasy
ⓘ
representation of Nigerian and Nigerian-American identity ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | 368 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Nsibidi Scripts series
ⓘ
linked to:
Nsibidi
|
| protagonist | Sunny Nwazue ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Viking
ⓘ
Viking Children’s Books ⓘ
linked to:
Viking Children's Books
|
| settingPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
| theme |
belonging
ⓘ
cultural heritage ⓘ friendship ⓘ identity ⓘ magic and power ⓘ |
| workOf | Nnedi Okorafor ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Akata Witch Description of subject: Akata Witch is a young adult fantasy novel by Nnedi Okorafor that follows a Nigerian-American girl who discovers her magical heritage within a secret society of Leopard People in Nigeria.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.