The Reason for Crows
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The Reason for Crows is a historical novel by Diane Glancy that reimagines the life and spiritual struggles of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Mohawk convert to Christianity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Reason for Crows canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6661925 — 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 Reason for Crows Context triple: [Diane Glancy, notableWork, The Reason for Crows]
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A.
The Tree of Crows
The Tree of Crows is a Romantic-era landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, depicting a stark, gnarled tree silhouetted against a dramatic sky to evoke themes of melancholy and mortality.
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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.
Court of Birds
Court of Birds is a picturesque, Spanish-style courtyard within the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, known for its ornate architecture, tranquil ambiance, and decorative bird-themed features.
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D.
The Flock
The Flock is the independent supporters’ group known for its vibrant, community-focused backing of Forward Madison FC in American lower-division soccer.
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E.
The Bird Revelation
The Bird Revelation is a stand-up comedy special by Dave Chappelle that blends sharp social commentary with personal reflection and storytelling.
- 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 Reason for Crows Target entity description: The Reason for Crows is a historical novel by Diane Glancy that reimagines the life and spiritual struggles of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Mohawk convert to Christianity.
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A.
The Tree of Crows
The Tree of Crows is a Romantic-era landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, depicting a stark, gnarled tree silhouetted against a dramatic sky to evoke themes of melancholy and mortality.
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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.
Court of Birds
Court of Birds is a picturesque, Spanish-style courtyard within the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, known for its ornate architecture, tranquil ambiance, and decorative bird-themed features.
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D.
The Flock
The Flock is the independent supporters’ group known for its vibrant, community-focused backing of Forward Madison FC in American lower-division soccer.
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E.
The Bird Revelation
The Bird Revelation is a stand-up comedy special by Dave Chappelle that blends sharp social commentary with personal reflection and storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| about | life of Kateri Tekakwitha ⓘ |
| author | Diane Glancy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
Christian conversion
ⓘ
Mohawk people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn | spiritual struggles of Kateri Tekakwitha ⓘ |
| genre | historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Catholicism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indigenous spirituality ⓘ colonial North America ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | religious fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kateri Tekakwitha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | Mohawk convert to Christianity ⓘ |
| protagonist | Kateri Tekakwitha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| timeSetting | colonial era ⓘ |
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 Reason for Crows Description of subject: The Reason for Crows is a historical novel by Diane Glancy that reimagines the life and spiritual struggles of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Mohawk convert to Christianity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.