Ammu
E232305
Ammu is the fiercely independent yet tragically constrained mother at the heart of Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose forbidden love and struggles against social norms drive much of the story’s emotional core.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ammu canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2083505 — 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: Ammu Context triple: [The God of Small Things, mainCharacters, Ammu]
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A.
Kovai
Kovai is the commonly used local name for Coimbatore, a major industrial and educational city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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B.
Nandi Thimmana
Nandi Thimmana was a prominent Telugu poet of the Vijayanagara Empire, renowned for his works in the court of Emperor Krishnadevaraya.
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C.
Malinalli
Malinalli, better known as La Malinche, was a Nahua woman who served as interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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D.
Guna
Guna is a city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh known as an important regional administrative and commercial center.
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E.
Nabaneeta
Nabaneeta is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed Indian Bengali writer and academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
- 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: Ammu Target entity description: Ammu is the fiercely independent yet tragically constrained mother at the heart of Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose forbidden love and struggles against social norms drive much of the story’s emotional core.
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A.
Kovai
Kovai is the commonly used local name for Coimbatore, a major industrial and educational city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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B.
Nandi Thimmana
Nandi Thimmana was a prominent Telugu poet of the Vijayanagara Empire, renowned for his works in the court of Emperor Krishnadevaraya.
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C.
Malinalli
Malinalli, better known as La Malinche, was a Nahua woman who served as interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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D.
Guna
Guna is a city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh known as an important regional administrative and commercial center.
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E.
Nabaneeta
Nabaneeta is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed Indian Bengali writer and academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The God of Small Things ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
family scandal
ⓘ
tragedy of Velutha ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
emotionally vulnerable
ⓘ
fiercely independent ⓘ rebellious ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
caste system
ⓘ
social norms ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arundhati Roy ⓘ |
| engagesIn | forbidden love ⓘ |
| familyName | Ipe ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationAssociated |
Ayemenem
ⓘ
Kerala ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Estha
ⓘ
Rahel ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Mammachi
ⓘ
Pappachi ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Chacko ⓘ |
| hasTwinChildren |
The God of Small Things
ⓘ
surface form:
Estha and Rahel
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreOfWork |
family saga
ⓘ
postcolonial fiction ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Velutha ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives emotional core of the story ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Indian ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Estha
ⓘ
Rahel ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| settingCountryInFiction | India ⓘ |
| suffersFrom |
economic hardship
ⓘ
gender discrimination ⓘ social ostracism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cost of transgressing caste and gender boundaries
ⓘ
resistance to oppressive norms ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
family trauma
ⓘ
forbidden love ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ social oppression ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ammu Description of subject: Ammu is the fiercely independent yet tragically constrained mother at the heart of Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose forbidden love and struggles against social norms drive much of the story’s emotional core.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.