Mother Carey's Chickens
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Mother Carey's Chickens is a 1911 family-centered novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that follows a widowed mother and her children as they face hardship with optimism and resourcefulness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mother Carey's Chickens canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10781820 — 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: Mother Carey's Chickens Context triple: [Kate Douglas Wiggin, notableWork, Mother Carey's Chickens]
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A.
The Poultry Seller
The Poultry Seller is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Gabriel Metsu depicting a lively market scene centered on a vendor selling poultry.
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B.
Cow and Chicken
Cow and Chicken is an American animated television series known for its surreal, slapstick humor and offbeat stories about a dimwitted cow, her cynical chicken brother, and their bizarre world.
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C.
Galinhas
Galinhas is an island in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago, a coastal island group in West Africa known for its rich biodiversity and traditional communities.
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D.
Goose Eggs
"Goose Eggs" is a song by the band Divers, known for its emotionally charged indie rock sound and vivid storytelling.
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E.
The Early Bird
The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a hapless milkman battling a ruthless dairy conglomerate.
- 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: Mother Carey's Chickens Target entity description: Mother Carey's Chickens is a 1911 family-centered novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that follows a widowed mother and her children as they face hardship with optimism and resourcefulness.
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A.
The Poultry Seller
The Poultry Seller is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Gabriel Metsu depicting a lively market scene centered on a vendor selling poultry.
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B.
Cow and Chicken
Cow and Chicken is an American animated television series known for its surreal, slapstick humor and offbeat stories about a dimwitted cow, her cynical chicken brother, and their bizarre world.
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C.
Galinhas
Galinhas is an island in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago, a coastal island group in West Africa known for its rich biodiversity and traditional communities.
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D.
Goose Eggs
"Goose Eggs" is a song by the band Divers, known for its emotionally charged indie rock sound and vivid storytelling.
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E.
The Early Bird
The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a hapless milkman battling a ruthless dairy conglomerate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Mother Carey's Chickens (1938 film)
NERFINISHED
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Summer Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Kate Douglas Wiggin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
domestic fiction ⓘ family fiction ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | yes ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | Summer Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMoral | cheerfulness and courage can transform adversity ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | the Carey family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Gilbert Carey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kathleen Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | widowed mother and her children ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
family solidarity
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optimism in the face of hardship ⓘ resourcefulness ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mother Carey's Chickens Description of subject: Mother Carey's Chickens is a 1911 family-centered novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that follows a widowed mother and her children as they face hardship with optimism and resourcefulness.
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