The Third Life of Grange Copeland
E293219
The Third Life of Grange Copeland is Alice Walker’s debut novel, a powerful exploration of racism, poverty, and generational trauma within an African American family in the rural American South.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Third Life of Grange Copeland canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2720125 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Life of Grange Copeland Context triple: [Alice Walker, notableWork, The Third Life of Grange Copeland]
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A.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
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B.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything That Rises Must Converge is a posthumously published collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor, noted for its darkly comic explorations of race, class, and morality in the American South.
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C.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Life of Grange Copeland Target entity description: The Third Life of Grange Copeland is Alice Walker’s debut novel, a powerful exploration of racism, poverty, and generational trauma within an African American family in the rural American South.
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A.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
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B.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything That Rises Must Converge is a posthumously published collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor, noted for its darkly comic explorations of race, class, and morality in the American South.
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C.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Alice Walker ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| exploresIssue |
economic exploitation
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gender oppression ⓘ internalized racism ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | Meridian ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
domestic fiction ⓘ fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Brownfield Copeland
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Mem Copeland ⓘ Ruth Copeland ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | subsequent African-American women’s fiction ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Grange Copeland ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStructure | multi-generational family saga ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
African American sharecroppers
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rural Black life in the Jim Crow South ⓘ |
| languageStyle | realist ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | African-American literary renaissance of the 1970s ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family relationships
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generational trauma ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ poverty ⓘ racism ⓘ sharecropping ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | three generations of an African American family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Alice Walker's first published novel ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| precededBy | none (debut novel) ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Harcourt Brace & World
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surface form:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
|
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| settingLocation | rural American South ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
redemptive
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tragic ⓘ |
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