Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth is a critically acclaimed poetry chapbook by Warsan Shire that explores themes of migration, womanhood, trauma, and diaspora through vivid, intimate verse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10431842 — 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: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Context triple: [Warsan Shire, notableWork, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth]
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A.
Das Trauma der Geburt
Das Trauma der Geburt is a 1924 psychoanalytic work by Otto Rank that argues the experience of birth is the fundamental source of human anxiety and a key to understanding neurosis and creativity.
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B.
My Birth
"My Birth" is a stark and surreal 1932 painting by Frida Kahlo that depicts a graphic scene of childbirth infused with themes of pain, identity, and mortality.
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C.
The Trauma of Birth
The Trauma of Birth is a 1924 psychoanalytic work by Otto Rank that argues the experience of birth is a fundamental source of human anxiety and a key to understanding neurosis, creativity, and culture.
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D.
When a Child Is Born
"When a Child Is Born" is a popular Christmas song best known through Johnny Mathis’s 1976 hit version, often associated with themes of hope and new beginnings.
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E.
The Trouble with Being Born
The Trouble with Being Born is a philosophical work by Emil Cioran that presents a series of aphoristic reflections on nihilism, pessimism, and the burdens of existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Target entity description: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth is a critically acclaimed poetry chapbook by Warsan Shire that explores themes of migration, womanhood, trauma, and diaspora through vivid, intimate verse.
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A.
Das Trauma der Geburt
Das Trauma der Geburt is a 1924 psychoanalytic work by Otto Rank that argues the experience of birth is the fundamental source of human anxiety and a key to understanding neurosis and creativity.
-
B.
My Birth
"My Birth" is a stark and surreal 1932 painting by Frida Kahlo that depicts a graphic scene of childbirth infused with themes of pain, identity, and mortality.
-
C.
The Trauma of Birth
The Trauma of Birth is a 1924 psychoanalytic work by Otto Rank that argues the experience of birth is a fundamental source of human anxiety and a key to understanding neurosis, creativity, and culture.
-
D.
When a Child Is Born
"When a Child Is Born" is a popular Christmas song best known through Johnny Mathis’s 1976 hit version, often associated with themes of hope and new beginnings.
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E.
The Trouble with Being Born
The Trouble with Being Born is a philosophical work by Emil Cioran that presents a series of aphoristic reflections on nihilism, pessimism, and the burdens of existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry chapbook ⓘ |
| author | Warsan Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Somali-British ⓘ |
| containsPoem |
Birds
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For Women Who Are Difficult to Love NERFINISHED ⓘ In Love and In War NERFINISHED ⓘ The House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| format | chapbook ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
body
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diaspora ⓘ displacement ⓘ family ⓘ identity ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ intimacy ⓘ memory ⓘ migration ⓘ motherhood ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ refugee experience ⓘ religion ⓘ sexuality ⓘ trauma ⓘ violence against women ⓘ war ⓘ womanhood ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African diaspora experiences
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Somali oral tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isbn | 9781905233294 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of African diaspora
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intimate voice ⓘ vivid imagery ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 38 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher | flipped eye publishing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Somali diaspora ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
experiences of refugee women
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relationships between mothers and daughters ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Description of subject: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth is a critically acclaimed poetry chapbook by Warsan Shire that explores themes of migration, womanhood, trauma, and diaspora through vivid, intimate verse.
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