The Way to Rainy Mountain
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The Way to Rainy Mountain is a seminal work by N. Scott Momaday that blends Kiowa folklore, personal memoir, and historical narrative, and is widely credited with helping launch the Native American Renaissance in literature.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Way to Rainy Mountain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258367 — 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: The Way to Rainy Mountain Context triple: [Native American Renaissance, hasInfluentialWork, The Way to Rainy Mountain]
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A.
House Made of Dawn
House Made of Dawn is a landmark 1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday that helped inaugurate the Native American Renaissance in literature and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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B.
Fools Crow
Fools Crow is a critically acclaimed novel by James Welch that powerfully portrays Blackfeet life and history, and is widely regarded as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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C.
The Cherokee Night
The Cherokee Night is a 1932 experimental play by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs that explores the disintegration and survival of Cherokee identity in modern America through a series of loosely connected scenes.
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D.
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s 1942 autobiography, chronicling her life from a Southern Black childhood to her emergence as a prominent writer and anthropologist.
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E.
The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians is an anthropological study and interpretation of Native American ritual and mythology by ethnologist Paul Radin.
- 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: The Way to Rainy Mountain Target entity description: The Way to Rainy Mountain is a seminal work by N. Scott Momaday that blends Kiowa folklore, personal memoir, and historical narrative, and is widely credited with helping launch the Native American Renaissance in literature.
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A.
House Made of Dawn
House Made of Dawn is a landmark 1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday that helped inaugurate the Native American Renaissance in literature and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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B.
Fools Crow
Fools Crow is a critically acclaimed novel by James Welch that powerfully portrays Blackfeet life and history, and is widely regarded as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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C.
The Cherokee Night
The Cherokee Night is a 1932 experimental play by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs that explores the disintegration and survival of Cherokee identity in modern America through a series of loosely connected scenes.
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D.
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s 1942 autobiography, chronicling her life from a Southern Black childhood to her emergence as a prominent writer and anthropologist.
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E.
The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians is an anthropological study and interpretation of Native American ritual and mythology by ethnologist Paul Radin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
nonfiction work ⓘ |
| author | N. Scott Momaday ⓘ |
| contains |
historical commentary
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personal memoir elements ⓘ |
| contributedTo | emergence of the Native American Renaissance in literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationDate | 1969 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Kiowa folklore
ⓘ
Kiowa people ⓘ |
| genre |
folklore
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historical narrative ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationsBy |
N. Scott Momaday
ⓘ
surface form:
Al Momaday
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| influenced | later Native American literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Native American Renaissance ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique | blending of myth, history, and personal narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative narrative structure
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integration of oral tradition into written form ⓘ role in Native American literary canon ⓘ |
| publisher |
University of New Mexico
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surface form:
University of New Mexico Press
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| setting | Rainy Mountain ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| structure | tripartite form ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Kiowa culture
ⓘ
Kiowa history ⓘ Kiowa migration ⓘ |
| theme |
cultural survival
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identity ⓘ memory ⓘ relationship between landscape and story ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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