Stick Out Your Tongue
E684466
Stick Out Your Tongue is a controversial collection of short stories by Chinese writer Ma Jian that portrays life and culture in Tibet with stark, surreal realism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stick Out Your Tongue canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7724432 — 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: Stick Out Your Tongue Context triple: [Ma Jian (writer), notableWork, Stick Out Your Tongue]
-
A.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is an Australian stage play by Andrew Bovell, best known as the source material for the acclaimed film "Lantana."
-
B.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
-
C.
Tongue in Chic
Tongue in Chic is a 1979 studio album by the American disco and funk band Chic, showcasing their signature blend of danceable grooves and sophisticated production.
-
D.
Watch Your Mouth
"Watch Your Mouth" is a grime track by British rapper Bugzy Malone that helped raise his profile in the UK urban music scene.
-
E.
Sugar Lips
"Sugar Lips" is a popular jazz trumpet tune by Al Hirt that became one of his signature hits in the 1960s.
- 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: Stick Out Your Tongue Target entity description: Stick Out Your Tongue is a controversial collection of short stories by Chinese writer Ma Jian that portrays life and culture in Tibet with stark, surreal realism.
-
A.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is an Australian stage play by Andrew Bovell, best known as the source material for the acclaimed film "Lantana."
-
B.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
-
C.
Tongue in Chic
Tongue in Chic is a 1979 studio album by the American disco and funk band Chic, showcasing their signature blend of danceable grooves and sophisticated production.
-
D.
Watch Your Mouth
"Watch Your Mouth" is a grime track by British rapper Bugzy Malone that helped raise his profile in the UK urban music scene.
-
E.
Sugar Lips
"Sugar Lips" is a popular jazz trumpet tune by Al Hirt that became one of his signature hits in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
short story collection ⓘ |
| author |
Ma Jian
ⓘ
linked to:
Ma Jian (writer)
|
| bannedIn | China ⓘ |
| controversialIn | China ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| criticalReception |
criticized for alleged misrepresentation of Tibet
ⓘ
praised for vivid, hallucinatory prose ⓘ |
| depicts |
Tibetan Buddhism
ⓘ
Tibetan culture ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| englishEditionPublisher |
Chatto & Windus
ⓘ
Farrar, Straus and Giroux ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780099481350 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“The Eight-Fanged Roach”
ⓘ
“The Final Initiation” ⓘ “The Song of the Swollen River” ⓘ “The Soul Mountain” ⓘ “The Woman and the Blue Sky” ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
clash between tradition and modernity
ⓘ
search for meaning ⓘ spiritual emptiness ⓘ violence and suffering ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Ma Jian’s travels in Tibet ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Chinese avant-garde literature ⓘ |
| mainSetting | Tibet ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | surreal realism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Chinese literary censorship debates
ⓘ
stark, surreal realism in depiction of Tibet ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| pageCount | 128 ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Beijing ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| publisher | Chinese literary magazine ⓘ |
| reasonForControversy |
depiction of Tibetan culture
ⓘ
graphic and taboo subject matter ⓘ |
| subject |
cultural dislocation
ⓘ
death ⓘ life in Tibet ⓘ religious ritual ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
| translator | Flora Drew ⓘ |
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: Stick Out Your Tongue Description of subject: Stick Out Your Tongue is a controversial collection of short stories by Chinese writer Ma Jian that portrays life and culture in Tibet with stark, surreal realism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jian