Push
E140724
"Push" is a 1996 novel by Sapphire that follows the harrowing yet hopeful coming-of-age story of an abused, illiterate Harlem teenager who begins to transform her life through alternative education and self-expression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Push canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225838 — 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: Push Context triple: [Precious, basedOn, Push]
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A.
Pusha T
Pusha T is an American rapper and record executive known for his gritty lyricism, work as half of the duo Clipse, and leadership of Kanye West’s GOOD Music label.
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B.
Hook
Hook is a village in Hampshire, England, known as a commuter settlement with good transport links to nearby towns and London.
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C.
Kick
Kick was the affectionate nickname of Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, the socially prominent and charismatic sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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D.
Trigger
Trigger was the famous golden palomino horse best known as Roy Rogers’ iconic movie and television mount in mid-20th-century Westerns.
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E.
Pump It
"Pump It" is a high-energy hip hop and dance track by the Black Eyed Peas, known for its heavy use of a sample from Dick Dale's surf rock classic "Misirlou."
- 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: Push Target entity description: "Push" is a 1996 novel by Sapphire that follows the harrowing yet hopeful coming-of-age story of an abused, illiterate Harlem teenager who begins to transform her life through alternative education and self-expression.
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A.
Pusha T
Pusha T is an American rapper and record executive known for his gritty lyricism, work as half of the duo Clipse, and leadership of Kanye West’s GOOD Music label.
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B.
Hook
Hook is a village in Hampshire, England, known as a commuter settlement with good transport links to nearby towns and London.
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C.
Kick
Kick was the affectionate nickname of Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, the socially prominent and charismatic sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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D.
Trigger
Trigger was the famous golden palomino horse best known as Roy Rogers’ iconic movie and television mount in mid-20th-century Westerns.
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E.
Pump It
"Pump It" is a high-energy hip hop and dance track by the Black Eyed Peas, known for its heavy use of a sample from Dick Dale's surf rock classic "Misirlou."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film "Precious"
ⓘ
surface form:
Precious
|
| author | Sapphire ⓘ |
| awarded |
Booker Prize
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surface form:
Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlisted: no)
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| filmAdaptationDirector | Lee Daniels ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationScreenwriter | Geoffrey S. Fletcher ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationStars |
Gabourey Sidibe
ⓘ
Mariah Carey ⓘ Mo'Nique ⓘ Paula Patton ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationTitle |
film "Precious"
ⓘ
surface form:
Precious
|
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
coming-of-age novel ⓘ novel ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ urban fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Claireece "Precious" Jones
ⓘ
surface form:
Claireece Precious Jones
|
| narrativeForm | diary-like ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique | vernacular language ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of an abused, illiterate Harlem teenager
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use of nonstandard English and evolving literacy in narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistAgeRange | teenager ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| protagonistName |
film "Precious"
ⓘ
surface form:
Precious
|
| publicationDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
Harlem
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New York City ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
alternative education
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literacy ⓘ sexual abuse ⓘ welfare system ⓘ |
| theme |
abuse
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education ⓘ illiteracy ⓘ incest ⓘ poverty ⓘ resilience ⓘ self-expression ⓘ trauma and recovery ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Push Description of subject: "Push" is a 1996 novel by Sapphire that follows the harrowing yet hopeful coming-of-age story of an abused, illiterate Harlem teenager who begins to transform her life through alternative education and self-expression.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Precious