The Namesake
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The Namesake is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of identity, immigration, and family through the life of a Bengali-American man navigating his dual cultural heritage.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Namesake canonical | 17 |
| "The Namesake" | 1 |
| The Namesake (2003 novel) | 1 |
| The Namesake (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505797 — 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 Namesake Context triple: [Jhumpa Lahiri, notableWork, The Namesake]
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A.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize–winning debut novel, a nonlinear family saga set in Kerala that explores forbidden love, caste, and political turmoil.
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B.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a 2017 novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy that weaves together the lives of marginalized characters across contemporary India in a fragmented, poetic narrative.
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C.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
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D.
The Golden House
The Golden House is a lesser-known 19th-century novel by American essayist and humorist Charles Dudley Warner.
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E.
Midnight's Children
"Midnight's Children" is a landmark postcolonial novel by Salman Rushdie that blends magical realism with Indian history around the time of independence and Partition.
- 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 Namesake Target entity description: The Namesake is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of identity, immigration, and family through the life of a Bengali-American man navigating his dual cultural heritage.
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A.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize–winning debut novel, a nonlinear family saga set in Kerala that explores forbidden love, caste, and political turmoil.
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B.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a 2017 novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy that weaves together the lives of marginalized characters across contemporary India in a fragmented, poetic narrative.
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C.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies is an acclaimed short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of Indian and Indian-American identity, displacement, and human relationships.
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D.
The Golden House
The Golden House is a lesser-known 19th-century novel by American essayist and humorist Charles Dudley Warner.
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E.
Midnight's Children
"Midnight's Children" is a landmark postcolonial novel by Salman Rushdie that blends magical realism with Indian history around the time of independence and Partition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Namesake
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Namesake (film)
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| author | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| awardNomination | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction longlist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Gabriele Wilson ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Mira Nair ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | Unaccustomed Earth ⓘ |
| follows | life of a Bengali-American man ⓘ |
| genre |
bildungsroman
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fiction ⓘ immigrant literature ⓘ |
| includedIn | many university and high school curricula ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-618-22371-7 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ashima Ganguli
ⓘ
Ashoke Ganguli ⓘ Gogol Ganguli ⓘ Moushumi Mazoomdar ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of Bengali-American immigrant experience
ⓘ
exploration of second-generation identity ⓘ |
| originalPublisher |
Houghton Mifflin
ⓘ
surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
| pages | 291 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Interpreter of Maladies ⓘ |
| protagonist | Gogol Ganguli ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| setting |
India
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| subject |
Bengali diaspora in the United States
ⓘ
cross-cultural marriage ⓘ intergenerational conflict ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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assimilation ⓘ cultural heritage ⓘ family ⓘ identity ⓘ immigration ⓘ name and selfhood ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Namesake Description of subject: The Namesake is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores themes of identity, immigration, and family through the life of a Bengali-American man navigating his dual cultural heritage.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Namesake (film)
this entity surface form:
"The Namesake"
this entity surface form:
The Namesake (2003 novel)