Maxine Hong Kingston
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Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston canonical | 23 |
| Maxine (narrator based on Maxine Hong Kingston) | 1 |
| Maxine Kingston | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110793 — 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: Maxine Hong Kingston Context triple: [American literature, hasNotableAuthor, Maxine Hong Kingston]
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for her nuanced portrayals of the Indian-American immigrant experience and themes of identity, displacement, and cultural conflict.
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Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
- 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: Maxine Hong Kingston Target entity description: Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
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A.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for her nuanced portrayals of the Indian-American immigrant experience and themes of identity, displacement, and cultural conflict.
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B.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
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C.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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D.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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E.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Maxine Hong Kingston Description of subject: Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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