Drown
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Drown is a critically acclaimed short story collection by Junot Díaz that explores the lives of Dominican and Dominican American characters grappling with migration, identity, and fractured relationships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drown canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10033980 — 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: Drown Context triple: [Junot Díaz, notableWork, Drown]
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A.
Drowned Out
Drowned Out is an orchestral composition by contemporary British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, noted for its vivid, jazz-inflected modernist style.
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B.
Drowning Man
"Drowning Man" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1983 album War, known for its atmospheric sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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C.
Drowning Crow
Drowning Crow is a contemporary play by Regina Taylor that reimagines Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull within an African American community in the American South.
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D.
Let Me Drown
"Let Me Drown" is the hard-hitting opening track from Soundgarden’s acclaimed 1994 grunge album *Superunknown*, known for its heavy riffs and dark lyrical themes.
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E.
Death by Water
"Death by Water" is a brief, elegiac section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem *The Waste Land* that reflects on mortality and the destructive, purifying power of the sea.
- 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: Drown Target entity description: Drown is a critically acclaimed short story collection by Junot Díaz that explores the lives of Dominican and Dominican American characters grappling with migration, identity, and fractured relationships.
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A.
Drowned Out
Drowned Out is an orchestral composition by contemporary British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, noted for its vivid, jazz-inflected modernist style.
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B.
Drowning Man
"Drowning Man" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1983 album War, known for its atmospheric sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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C.
Drowning Crow
Drowning Crow is a contemporary play by Regina Taylor that reimagines Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull within an African American community in the American South.
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D.
Let Me Drown
"Let Me Drown" is the hard-hitting opening track from Soundgarden’s acclaimed 1994 grunge album *Superunknown*, known for its heavy riffs and dark lyrical themes.
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E.
Death by Water
"Death by Water" is a brief, elegiac section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem *The Waste Land* that reflects on mortality and the destructive, purifying power of the sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Junot Díaz ⓘ |
| containsStory |
Aguantando
ⓘ
Aurora ⓘ Drown ⓘ Edison, New Jersey ⓘ Fiesta, 1980 ⓘ How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie ⓘ Negocios ⓘ
linked to:
Economia
No Face ⓘ
linked to:
No-Face
Ysrael ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Yunior ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| hasForm |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9781573226066 ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary Latino literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Latino literature
ⓘ
postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Dominican diaspora
ⓘ
dislocation ⓘ family relationships ⓘ identity ⓘ immigrant experience ⓘ masculinity ⓘ migration ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of Dominican American life
ⓘ
nonlinear storytelling ⓘ use of Spanglish ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| publisher | Riverhead Books ⓘ |
| setting |
Dominican Republic
ⓘ
New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| structure | linked short stories ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
code-switching
ⓘ
colloquial language ⓘ fragmented narrative ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
fractured relationships
ⓘ
immigrant families ⓘ working-class life ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | late 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Drown Description of subject: Drown is a critically acclaimed short story collection by Junot Díaz that explores the lives of Dominican and Dominican American characters grappling with migration, identity, and fractured relationships.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.