The Edible Woman
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The Edible Woman is Margaret Atwood’s debut novel, a darkly comic feminist work that explores identity, consumerism, and the pressures of gender roles through a young woman’s psychological unraveling.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Edible Woman canonical | 9 |
| The Edible Woman (novel) | 1 |
| The Edible Woman fictional universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T161975 — 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 Edible Woman Context triple: [Margaret Atwood, notableWork, The Edible Woman]
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A.
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate is a celebrated Mexican novel by Laura Esquivel that blends romance, magical realism, and culinary tradition to explore love, family, and repression.
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B.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize–winning novel by Margaret Atwood that blends family saga, mystery, and metafiction through a story-within-a-story structure.
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C.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" is a candid, introspective memoir in which Roxane Gay explores her experiences with trauma, body image, fatness, and desire through the lens of her own body.
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D.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- 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 Edible Woman Target entity description: The Edible Woman is Margaret Atwood’s debut novel, a darkly comic feminist work that explores identity, consumerism, and the pressures of gender roles through a young woman’s psychological unraveling.
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A.
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate is a celebrated Mexican novel by Laura Esquivel that blends romance, magical realism, and culinary tradition to explore love, family, and repression.
-
B.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize–winning novel by Margaret Atwood that blends family saga, mystery, and metafiction through a story-within-a-story structure.
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C.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" is a candid, introspective memoir in which Roxane Gay explores her experiences with trauma, body image, fatness, and desire through the lens of her own body.
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D.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
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feminist fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | radio adaptation ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Ainsley
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Clara ⓘ Duncan ⓘ Peter ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780771099510 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
advertising industry
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women office workers ⓘ |
| includedIn | Canadian literature canon ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | second-wave feminism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | Margaret Atwood's debut novel ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Marian McAlpin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person
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third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | early exploration of feminist themes in Canadian literature ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotElement |
creation of a woman-shaped cake
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engagement to Peter ⓘ protagonist develops inability to eat ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| publisher | McClelland and Stewart ⓘ |
| setInCity | Toronto ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| structure | multi-part narrative ⓘ |
| symbolism |
edible woman cake as selfhood
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food as representation of consumption ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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body image ⓘ consumerism ⓘ consumption and food ⓘ engagement and commitment ⓘ female identity ⓘ gender roles ⓘ marriage ⓘ objectification of women ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ psychological breakdown ⓘ |
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Instruction
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