poem "Crow and Mama"
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"Crow and Mama" is a short, darkly comic poem from Ted Hughes’s *Crow* sequence, exploring the mythic, unsettling relationship between the trickster figure Crow and a maternal presence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| poem "Crow and Mama" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5310858 — 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: poem "Crow and Mama" Context triple: [Crow, hasPart, poem "Crow and Mama"]
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A.
Sonnet for Mother
"Sonnet for Mother" is a jazz composition by trumpeter and flugelhornist Alan Shorter, recognized as one of his most significant and distinctive works.
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B.
Fathers and Crows
Fathers and Crows is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that explores the violent and complex encounters between French colonizers and Indigenous peoples in 17th-century North America.
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C.
On My Mama
"On My Mama" is a 2023 R&B song by Victoria Monét that blends nostalgic Southern hip-hop influences with affirming, self-confident lyrics and became one of her breakout hits.
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D.
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems is a collection by Nikki Giovanni that blends poetry and prose to explore African American identity, history, space exploration, and social justice with her characteristic wit and political insight.
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E.
poem "The Book of Longing"
"The Book of Longing" is a reflective, lyrical poem by Leonard Cohen that explores themes of desire, spirituality, aging, and introspection in his characteristically spare, musical language.
- 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: poem "Crow and Mama" Target entity description: "Crow and Mama" is a short, darkly comic poem from Ted Hughes’s *Crow* sequence, exploring the mythic, unsettling relationship between the trickster figure Crow and a maternal presence.
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A.
Sonnet for Mother
"Sonnet for Mother" is a jazz composition by trumpeter and flugelhornist Alan Shorter, recognized as one of his most significant and distinctive works.
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B.
Fathers and Crows
Fathers and Crows is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that explores the violent and complex encounters between French colonizers and Indigenous peoples in 17th-century North America.
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C.
On My Mama
"On My Mama" is a 2023 R&B song by Victoria Monét that blends nostalgic Southern hip-hop influences with affirming, self-confident lyrics and became one of her breakout hits.
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D.
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems is a collection by Nikki Giovanni that blends poetry and prose to explore African American identity, history, space exploration, and social justice with her characteristic wit and political insight.
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E.
poem "The Book of Longing"
"The Book of Longing" is a reflective, lyrical poem by Leonard Cohen that explores themes of desire, spirituality, aging, and introspection in his characteristically spare, musical language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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poem ⓘ |
| associatedWithSeries | Crow sequence ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Mama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresRelationshipBetween |
Crow
ⓘ
maternal presence ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | trickster figure ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCollection | Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | short lyric poem ⓘ |
| hasMythicDimension | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | unsettling maternal power ⓘ |
| theme |
dark humor
ⓘ
existential anxiety ⓘ mother–child relationship ⓘ myth ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| usesCharacterAsSymbol |
Crow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mama ⓘ |
| workByAuthor | Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: poem "Crow and Mama" Description of subject: "Crow and Mama" is a short, darkly comic poem from Ted Hughes’s *Crow* sequence, exploring the mythic, unsettling relationship between the trickster figure Crow and a maternal presence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.