Crazy Brave
E476940
Crazy Brave is a memoir by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo that recounts her early life, Indigenous heritage, and artistic awakening through lyrical, poetic prose.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crazy Brave canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4866679 — 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: Crazy Brave Context triple: [Joy Harjo, notableWork, Crazy Brave]
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A.
Sun Dance
The Sun Dance is a central Plains Indigenous ceremonial ritual involving days of dancing, fasting, prayer, and often physical sacrifice to seek spiritual renewal and communal harmony.
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B.
Thunder Child
Thunder Child is a dramatic musical piece from Jeff Wayne's concept album "The War of the Worlds," depicting a valiant ironclad warship's last stand against Martian invaders.
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C.
Winter in the Blood
"Winter in the Blood" is a seminal novel by James Welch that helped define the Native American Renaissance through its stark, introspective portrayal of contemporary Native life and identity on the Montana Hi-Line.
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D.
Rattle Blanket Woman
Rattle Blanket Woman was an Oglala Lakota woman best known as the mother of the famed Lakota war leader Crazy Horse.
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E.
Fools Crow
Fools Crow is a critically acclaimed novel by James Welch that powerfully portrays Blackfeet life and history, and is widely regarded as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
- 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: Crazy Brave Target entity description: Crazy Brave is a memoir by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo that recounts her early life, Indigenous heritage, and artistic awakening through lyrical, poetic prose.
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A.
Sun Dance
The Sun Dance is a central Plains Indigenous ceremonial ritual involving days of dancing, fasting, prayer, and often physical sacrifice to seek spiritual renewal and communal harmony.
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B.
Thunder Child
Thunder Child is a dramatic musical piece from Jeff Wayne's concept album "The War of the Worlds," depicting a valiant ironclad warship's last stand against Martian invaders.
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C.
Winter in the Blood
"Winter in the Blood" is a seminal novel by James Welch that helped define the Native American Renaissance through its stark, introspective portrayal of contemporary Native life and identity on the Montana Hi-Line.
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D.
Rattle Blanket Woman
Rattle Blanket Woman was an Oglala Lakota woman best known as the mother of the famed Lakota war leader Crazy Horse.
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E.
Fools Crow
Fools Crow is a critically acclaimed novel by James Welch that powerfully portrays Blackfeet life and history, and is widely regarded as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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memoir ⓘ |
| aboutAuthor | Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Joy Harjo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
Joy Harjo's experiences in boarding school
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Joy Harjo's experiences with domestic violence ⓘ Joy Harjo's turn to art and poetry as survival ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Joy Harjo's adolescence
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Joy Harjo's childhood ⓘ Joy Harjo's development as a musician ⓘ Joy Harjo's development as a poet ⓘ Joy Harjo's development as an artist ⓘ Joy Harjo's early adulthood ⓘ |
| genre |
Native American literature
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autobiography ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Indigenous identity
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colonialism and its impacts ⓘ connection to land ⓘ healing ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ storytelling ⓘ violence and resilience ⓘ vision and imagination ⓘ women's experiences ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
contributes to Indigenous women's life writing
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important work in contemporary Native American memoir ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| portrays |
Muscogee (Creek) Nation heritage
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Native American community life ⓘ |
| style |
lyrical
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poetic prose ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Indigenous heritage
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Joy Harjo's early life ⓘ artistic awakening ⓘ family ⓘ music ⓘ poetry ⓘ spirituality ⓘ survival ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| tone |
intimate
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reflective ⓘ visionary ⓘ |
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Instruction
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