Burning Your Boats
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Burning Your Boats is a posthumous collection of short stories by British writer Angela Carter, showcasing her darkly imaginative, feminist, and fantastical fiction across her career.
All labels observed (1)
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| Burning Your Boats canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8030511 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burning Your Boats Context triple: [Angela Carter, notableWork, Burning Your Boats]
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A.
The Landings
The Landings is a residential neighborhood that forms one of the planned subdivisions within the Burke Centre community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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B.
The Road to the Sea
"The Road to the Sea" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores humanity’s relationship with exploration and the unknown.
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C.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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D.
Journey to a War
Journey to a War is a 1939 travelogue and poetic work by W. H. Auden (with Christopher Isherwood) documenting their journey through China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Going Ashore
"Going Ashore" is a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri, included in her collection *Unaccustomed Earth*, that explores themes of family, identity, and displacement within the South Asian diaspora.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burning Your Boats Target entity description: Burning Your Boats is a posthumous collection of short stories by British writer Angela Carter, showcasing her darkly imaginative, feminist, and fantastical fiction across her career.
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A.
The Landings
The Landings is a residential neighborhood that forms one of the planned subdivisions within the Burke Centre community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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B.
The Road to the Sea
"The Road to the Sea" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores humanity’s relationship with exploration and the unknown.
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C.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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D.
Journey to a War
Journey to a War is a 1939 travelogue and poetic work by W. H. Auden (with Christopher Isherwood) documenting their journey through China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Going Ashore
"Going Ashore" is a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri, included in her collection *Unaccustomed Earth*, that explores themes of family, identity, and displacement within the South Asian diaspora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Angela Carter ⓘ |
| collects | stories from across Angela Carter's career ⓘ |
| containsWork | short stories by Angela Carter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| editorialStatus | posthumously compiled ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy fiction
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feminist fiction ⓘ magic realism ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
darkly imaginative
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experimental prose ⓘ fantastical ⓘ subversive ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
feminism
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gender ⓘ myth and folklore ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ sexuality ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
postmodernism
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linked to:
Postmodernism
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| literarySignificance | key collection for studying Angela Carter's work ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comprehensive representation of Angela Carter's stories
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showcasing the range of Angela Carter's short fiction ⓘ |
| publicationType | posthumous collection ⓘ |
| publisher |
Chatto & Windus
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Penguin Books ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Burning Your Boats Description of subject: Burning Your Boats is a posthumous collection of short stories by British writer Angela Carter, showcasing her darkly imaginative, feminist, and fantastical fiction across her career.
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