Bad Feminist
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Bad Feminist is a bestselling essay collection by Roxane Gay that blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and feminist analysis to explore the complexities and contradictions of modern womanhood and social justice.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bad Feminist canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T78400 — 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: Bad Feminist Context triple: [Roxane Gay, notableWork, Bad Feminist]
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Notorious RBG
Notorious RBG is the popular cultural nickname for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, celebrating her as a trailblazing feminist icon and champion of gender equality.
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The Protester
The Protester is the collective title Time magazine gave in 2011 to individuals worldwide who participated in mass demonstrations and uprisings, symbolizing the power of grassroots activism in shaping global events.
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Why I Am Not a Christian
Why I Am Not a Christian is an influential 1927 essay and later book by philosopher Bertrand Russell that critiques Christian doctrine and organized religion from a rationalist and skeptical perspective.
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FIRE
FIRE is a near-infrared spectrograph instrument used on large astronomical telescopes to study celestial objects at infrared wavelengths.
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" is a popular biographical book that chronicles the life, legal career, and cultural impact of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- 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: Bad Feminist Target entity description: Bad Feminist is a bestselling essay collection by Roxane Gay that blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and feminist analysis to explore the complexities and contradictions of modern womanhood and social justice.
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A.
Notorious RBG
Notorious RBG is the popular cultural nickname for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, celebrating her as a trailblazing feminist icon and champion of gender equality.
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B.
The Protester
The Protester is the collective title Time magazine gave in 2011 to individuals worldwide who participated in mass demonstrations and uprisings, symbolizing the power of grassroots activism in shaping global events.
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C.
Why I Am Not a Christian
Why I Am Not a Christian is an influential 1927 essay and later book by philosopher Bertrand Russell that critiques Christian doctrine and organized religion from a rationalist and skeptical perspective.
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D.
FIRE
FIRE is a near-infrared spectrograph instrument used on large astronomical telescopes to study celestial objects at infrared wavelengths.
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E.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" is a popular biographical book that chronicles the life, legal career, and cultural impact of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay collection
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feminist literature ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| addressesTopic |
body image
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privilege ⓘ race and gender in popular culture ⓘ rape culture ⓘ representation of women in media ⓘ |
| author | Roxane Gay ⓘ |
| bestsellerStatus | bestselling essay collection ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
complexities of modern womanhood
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imperfect feminism ⓘ intersectionality ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural criticism
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essays ⓘ feminist criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
essays on politics
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essays on pop culture ⓘ personal essays ⓘ |
| influencedDiscussionOf |
contemporary feminism
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intersectional feminist discourse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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e-book ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeMode |
cultural criticism
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feminist analysis ⓘ personal narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending memoir and criticism
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examining representation in popular culture ⓘ exploring contradictions within feminism ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 2010s ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper Perennial ⓘ |
| subject |
feminism
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gender ⓘ identity ⓘ popular culture ⓘ race ⓘ social justice ⓘ womanhood ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general adult readers
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readers interested in feminism ⓘ |
| tone |
critical
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humorous ⓘ personal ⓘ |
| workOf | Roxane Gay ⓘ |
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: Bad Feminist Description of subject: Bad Feminist is a bestselling essay collection by Roxane Gay that blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and feminist analysis to explore the complexities and contradictions of modern womanhood and social justice.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Roxane Gay
subject surface form:
Roxane Gay