A Mercy
E20114
"A Mercy" is a historical novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of slavery, motherhood, and identity in 17th-century America through the intertwined lives of several women.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Mercy canonical | 12 |
| A Mercy (2008 novel) | 4 |
| A Mercy universe | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Toni Morrison ⓘ |
| awarded |
A New York Times Notable Book
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Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
intertwined lives of several women
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the concept of mercy ⓘ the formation of American identity ⓘ the impact of slavery on families ⓘ |
| followedBy | Home ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Florens
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Florens’s mother ⓘ Jacob Vaark ⓘ Lina ⓘ Rebekka Vaark ⓘ Sorrow ⓘ |
| hasForm |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-307-26423-7 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
African diaspora
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Native American displacement ⓘ religious intolerance in colonial America ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
colonialism
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freedom ⓘ gender ⓘ identity ⓘ motherhood ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ race ⓘ religion ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
first-person narration
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multiple perspectives ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of early American slavery beyond plantation settings
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focus on women’s experiences under slavery ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 176 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Love ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 17th-century America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: A Mercy Description of subject: "A Mercy" is a historical novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of slavery, motherhood, and identity in 17th-century America through the intertwined lives of several women.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Love (novel)
subject surface form:
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
this entity surface form:
A Mercy (2008 novel)
this entity surface form:
A Mercy (2008 novel)
this entity surface form:
A Mercy universe
this entity surface form:
A Mercy (2008 novel)
this entity surface form:
A Mercy (2008 novel)