Mama
E142884
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230952 — 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: Mama Context triple: [Terry McMillan, notableWork, Mama]
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A.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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B.
Mother and Child
"Mother and Child" is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García that interweaves the emotional stories of three women connected by adoption and motherhood.
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C.
Daughter
"Daughter" is a widely acclaimed 1993 rock song by American band Pearl Jam, known for its emotive lyrics and prominent place in their live performances.
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D.
Baby June
Baby June was the childhood stage persona of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc, famously depicted as the younger sister in the musical "Gypsy."
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E.
Mam
Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
- 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: Mama Target entity description: "Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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A.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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B.
Mother and Child
"Mother and Child" is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García that interweaves the emotional stories of three women connected by adoption and motherhood.
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C.
Daughter
"Daughter" is a widely acclaimed 1993 rock song by American band Pearl Jam, known for its emotive lyrics and prominent place in their live performances.
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D.
Baby June
Baby June was the childhood stage persona of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc, famously depicted as the younger sister in the musical "Gypsy."
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E.
Mam
Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Terry McMillan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
African-American working-class life
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domestic turmoil ⓘ economic hardship ⓘ |
| focusesOn | a Black woman raising her children alone ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
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domestic fiction ⓘ fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780395415325 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| influenced | the popularity of contemporary African-American women’s fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mildred Peacock ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Terry McMillan's first novel ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | a resilient Black single mother ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| settingPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| theme |
family relationships
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personal struggle ⓘ poverty ⓘ resilience ⓘ single motherhood ⓘ survival ⓘ |
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: Mama Description of subject: "Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.