The Heathen Chinee
E1003020
"The Heathen Chinee" is a satirical 1870 poem by Bret Harte that critiques anti-Chinese racism in the American West through the story of a Chinese card player accused of cheating.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Heathen Chinee canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12772928 — 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 Heathen Chinee Context triple: [Plain Language from Truthful James, hasAlternativeTitle, The Heathen Chinee]
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A.
The Chink and the Child
"The Chink and the Child" is a 1916 short story by Thomas Burke, known for its tragic interracial love plot in London’s Limehouse district and for inspiring D. W. Griffith’s film "Broken Blossoms."
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B.
Message of the East
Message of the East is a philosophical and poetic work by Muhammad Iqbal that responds to Goethe’s West–Eastern Divan by exploring spiritual, cultural, and intellectual themes from an Eastern Islamic perspective.
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C.
The Bitchun Society
The Bitchun Society is a post-scarcity, reputation-based future society from Cory Doctorow’s novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," where death is obsolete and social capital replaces money.
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D.
The Spirit of the East
The Spirit of the East is a 19th-century travel and political commentary by David Urquhart that examines the culture, society, and geopolitics of the Ottoman Empire and the broader Eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
O Mandarim
O Mandarim is a satirical novella by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós that explores greed, morality, and the consequences of wish fulfillment through a fantastical tale about a clerk who can gain a fortune by causing the death of a distant Chinese mandarin.
- 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 Heathen Chinee Target entity description: "The Heathen Chinee" is a satirical 1870 poem by Bret Harte that critiques anti-Chinese racism in the American West through the story of a Chinese card player accused of cheating.
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A.
The Chink and the Child
"The Chink and the Child" is a 1916 short story by Thomas Burke, known for its tragic interracial love plot in London’s Limehouse district and for inspiring D. W. Griffith’s film "Broken Blossoms."
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B.
Message of the East
Message of the East is a philosophical and poetic work by Muhammad Iqbal that responds to Goethe’s West–Eastern Divan by exploring spiritual, cultural, and intellectual themes from an Eastern Islamic perspective.
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C.
The Bitchun Society
The Bitchun Society is a post-scarcity, reputation-based future society from Cory Doctorow’s novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," where death is obsolete and social capital replaces money.
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D.
The Spirit of the East
The Spirit of the East is a 19th-century travel and political commentary by David Urquhart that examines the culture, society, and geopolitics of the Ottoman Empire and the broader Eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
O Mandarim
O Mandarim is a satirical novella by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós that explores greed, morality, and the consequences of wish fulfillment through a fantastical tale about a clerk who can gain a fortune by causing the death of a distant Chinese mandarin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poem
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satirical poem ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | The Heathen Chinee ⓘ |
| author | Bret Harte ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
anti-Chinese racism
ⓘ
cheating and deception ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ racial prejudice ⓘ |
| characterizationOfAhSin | apparently naive but actually clever card player ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| criticizes |
anti-Chinese racism
ⓘ
white American hypocrisy ⓘ |
| depicts | a card game involving marked cards and cheating ⓘ |
| firstLine | Which I wish to remark ⓘ |
| form | rhymed verse ⓘ |
| genre |
narrative poem
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Chinese immigrants in the United States
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frontier life ⓘ gambling ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
anti-Chinese sentiment in 19th-century American West
ⓘ
post–Gold Rush California ⓘ |
| influenced | popular stereotypes of Chinese immigrants in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterReception | sometimes misread as endorsing stereotypes it satirizes ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ah Sin
ⓘ
Bill Nye ⓘ Truthful James ⓘ |
| meter | irregular ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a Chinese card player accused of cheating ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early literary treatment of anti-Chinese racism
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use of dialect and colloquial speech ⓘ |
| originallyIntendedAs | critique of racial prejudice ⓘ |
| originalPublicationMedium | Overland Monthly ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Plain Language from Truthful James ⓘ |
| perspective | first-person narration by Truthful James ⓘ |
| portrays | white characters as also cheating ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1870s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1870 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| settingRegion | American West ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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satirical ⓘ |
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Referenced by (4)
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