Women Talking (novel)
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Women Talking is a 2018 novel by Miriam Toews that portrays a group of Mennonite women secretly debating how to respond to systemic sexual abuse in their isolated religious colony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Women Talking (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11320043 — 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: Women Talking (novel) Context triple: [Sarah Polley, adaptedFrom, Women Talking (novel)]
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Women Talking
Women Talking is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, adapted from Miriam Toews’ novel about a group of Mennonite women grappling with systemic sexual abuse in their isolated religious community.
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B.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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C.
The Fifth Woman
The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
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D.
A Woman’s Tale
A Woman’s Tale is a 1991 Australian drama film by director Paul Cox that poignantly portrays the final days and emotional resilience of an elderly woman facing terminal illness.
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E.
The Women’s Story
The Women’s Story is a pioneering British documentary film by Jill Craigie that explores women’s experiences and roles in society during and after World War II.
- 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: Women Talking (novel) Target entity description: Women Talking is a 2018 novel by Miriam Toews that portrays a group of Mennonite women secretly debating how to respond to systemic sexual abuse in their isolated religious colony.
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A.
Women Talking
Women Talking is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, adapted from Miriam Toews’ novel about a group of Mennonite women grappling with systemic sexual abuse in their isolated religious community.
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B.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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C.
The Fifth Woman
The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
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D.
A Woman’s Tale
A Woman’s Tale is a 1991 Australian drama film by director Paul Cox that poignantly portrays the final days and emotional resilience of an elderly woman facing terminal illness.
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E.
The Women’s Story
The Women’s Story is a pioneering British documentary film by Jill Craigie that explores women’s experiences and roles in society during and after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
film
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literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Miriam Toews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Bolivian Mennonite sexual abuse scandal
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Women Talking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ religious fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Women Talking (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780735273961 ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Mennonites
NERFINISHED
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collective decision-making ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ religious community ⓘ sexual violence ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fictionalized account ⓘ |
| narrator | August Epp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 240 ⓘ |
| protagonistGroup | Mennonite women ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| publisher | Knopf Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | isolated Mennonite colony ⓘ |
| theme |
autonomy
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community and exile ⓘ faith and doubt ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ justice ⓘ resistance to oppression ⓘ systemic sexual abuse ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Women Talking (novel) Description of subject: Women Talking is a 2018 novel by Miriam Toews that portrays a group of Mennonite women secretly debating how to respond to systemic sexual abuse in their isolated religious colony.
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