The Ancient Child
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The Ancient Child is a novel by N. Scott Momaday that blends Native American mythology with a contemporary coming-of-age story about identity, memory, and transformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ancient Child canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6361838 — 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 Ancient Child Context triple: [N. Scott Momaday, notableWork, The Ancient Child]
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A.
Master of the Children
Master of the Children is the title historically given to the director responsible for training and overseeing the boy choristers of the Chapel Royal in the English royal household.
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B.
The Ages
"The Ages" is a reflective poem by William Cullen Bryant that meditates on the progression of human history and the moral development of civilization.
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C.
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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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
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.
- 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 Ancient Child Target entity description: The Ancient Child is a novel by N. Scott Momaday that blends Native American mythology with a contemporary coming-of-age story about identity, memory, and transformation.
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A.
Master of the Children
Master of the Children is the title historically given to the director responsible for training and overseeing the boy choristers of the Chapel Royal in the English royal household.
-
B.
The Ages
"The Ages" is a reflective poem by William Cullen Bryant that meditates on the progression of human history and the moral development of civilization.
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C.
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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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | N. Scott Momaday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cultural heritage
ⓘ
identity ⓘ memory ⓘ myth and reality ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| explores |
intergenerational memory
ⓘ
spiritual transformation ⓘ urban and reservation life ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | In the Presence of the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Native American literature
ⓘ
coming-of-age novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
bear transformation
ⓘ
landscape as character ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 320 pages ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | multiple points of view ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Native American identity
ⓘ
art and creativity ⓘ |
| incorporates |
Bear Boy legend
ⓘ
Kiowa mythology ⓘ Native American mythology ⓘ |
| isPartOf | N. Scott Momaday bibliography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Native American Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Grey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kope'mah NERFINISHED ⓘ Locke Setman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | blends myth and contemporary realism ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Names NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | Kiowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | painter ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting |
Oklahoma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Native American literature courses
ⓘ
contemporary American fiction courses ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: The Ancient Child Description of subject: The Ancient Child is a novel by N. Scott Momaday that blends Native American mythology with a contemporary coming-of-age story about identity, memory, and transformation.
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