A Song Flung Up to Heaven
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven is Maya Angelou’s sixth autobiographical volume, chronicling her experiences during the turbulent years surrounding the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Song Flung Up to Heaven canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3864043 — 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: A Song Flung Up to Heaven Context triple: [Maya Angelou, notableWork, A Song Flung Up to Heaven]
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A.
Here and Heaven
"Here and Heaven" is a collaborative acoustic track blending classical, bluegrass, and folk influences, performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile on their genre-crossing album The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
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B.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
The Dawns Here Are Quiet is a Russian war drama film (originally a Soviet-era story) about a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners fighting in a remote forest during World War II.
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C.
The Voice from the Sky
The Voice from the Sky is a 1930 American science fiction adventure film serial, notable as one of the earliest sound serials produced in Hollywood.
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D.
The Love Song
The Love Song is a Rococo-era painting by French artist Antoine Watteau, celebrated for its delicate depiction of aristocratic figures engaged in intimate, music-filled courtship.
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E.
All This, and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 romantic drama film starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer, adapted from Rachel Field’s novel about a governess entangled in a scandalous French aristocratic household.
- 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: A Song Flung Up to Heaven Target entity description: A Song Flung Up to Heaven is Maya Angelou’s sixth autobiographical volume, chronicling her experiences during the turbulent years surrounding the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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A.
Here and Heaven
"Here and Heaven" is a collaborative acoustic track blending classical, bluegrass, and folk influences, performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile on their genre-crossing album The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
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B.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
The Dawns Here Are Quiet is a Russian war drama film (originally a Soviet-era story) about a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners fighting in a remote forest during World War II.
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C.
The Voice from the Sky
The Voice from the Sky is a 1930 American science fiction adventure film serial, notable as one of the earliest sound serials produced in Hollywood.
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D.
The Love Song
The Love Song is a Rococo-era painting by French artist Antoine Watteau, celebrated for its delicate depiction of aristocratic figures engaged in intimate, music-filled courtship.
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E.
All This, and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 romantic drama film starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer, adapted from Rachel Field’s novel about a governess entangled in a scandalous French aristocratic household.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobiography
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book ⓘ non-fiction work ⓘ |
| author | Maya Angelou ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describesEvent |
assassination of Malcolm X
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assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| follows | All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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memoir ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Mom & Me & Mom ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century American literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Maya Angelou ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
civil rights movement
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grief and loss ⓘ personal resilience ⓘ racial injustice in the United States ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| partOf | Maya Angelou’s seven-volume autobiographical series ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | sixth volume ⓘ |
| precedes | Mom & Me & Mom ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| series | Maya Angelou autobiographies ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Maya Angelou’s reaction to Martin Luther King Jr.’s death
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Maya Angelou’s return to the United States from Africa ⓘ Maya Angelou’s work with Malcolm X ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | inspired by African American spirituals ⓘ |
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