The Book of Night Women
E346535
The Book of Night Women is a historical novel by Jamaican author Marlon James that follows an enslaved woman’s coming of age amid a violent slave revolt on a Jamaican sugar plantation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Book of Night Women canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3315153 — 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 Book of Night Women Context triple: [Marlon James, notableWork, The Book of Night Women]
-
A.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer is a debut novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates that blends historical fiction and magical realism to explore slavery, memory, and freedom in the antebellum American South.
-
B.
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place is a 1989 television miniseries adaptation of Gloria Naylor’s novel, depicting the interconnected struggles and resilience of Black women living in a rundown urban housing project.
-
C.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
-
D.
A Mercy
"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.
-
E.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
- 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 Book of Night Women Target entity description: The Book of Night Women is a historical novel by Jamaican author Marlon James that follows an enslaved woman’s coming of age amid a violent slave revolt on a Jamaican sugar plantation.
-
A.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer is a debut novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates that blends historical fiction and magical realism to explore slavery, memory, and freedom in the antebellum American South.
-
B.
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place is a 1989 television miniseries adaptation of Gloria Naylor’s novel, depicting the interconnected struggles and resilience of Black women living in a rundown urban housing project.
-
C.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
-
D.
A Mercy
"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.
-
E.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Caribbean literature
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Marlon James ⓘ |
| awards |
Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction finalist
ⓘ
Minnesota Book Award winner ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin | Jamaica ⓘ |
| followedBy | A Brief History of Seven Killings ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
Caribbean fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ slave narrative ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9781594484360 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Atlantic slavery
ⓘ
Jamaican history ⓘ enslaved women ⓘ plantation life ⓘ slave revolt ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary Caribbean literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lilith ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of slave revolt in Jamaica
ⓘ
use of Jamaican patois ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approx. 432 ⓘ |
| partOf | Marlon James bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy |
John Crow’s Devil
ⓘ
surface form:
John Crow's Devil
|
| protagonist | Lilith ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher | Riverhead Books ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Jamaica
ⓘ
Jamaican sugar plantation ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod |
era of transatlantic slavery
ⓘ
late 18th century ⓘ |
| themes |
colonialism
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ gender ⓘ power ⓘ race ⓘ rebellion ⓘ resistance ⓘ slavery ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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: The Book of Night Women Description of subject: The Book of Night Women is a historical novel by Jamaican author Marlon James that follows an enslaved woman’s coming of age amid a violent slave revolt on a Jamaican sugar plantation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.