Night Sky with Exit Wounds
E820872
Night Sky with Exit Wounds is Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed debut poetry collection, known for its lyrical exploration of war, migration, queerness, and family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Night Sky with Exit Wounds canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9792441 — 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: Night Sky with Exit Wounds Context triple: [Ocean Vuong, notableWork, Night Sky with Exit Wounds]
-
A.
The Hollow Places
The Hollow Places is a contemporary horror novel by T. Kingfisher that blends cosmic dread, dark humor, and portal fantasy as a woman discovers a terrifying alternate world hidden behind a wall in her uncle’s museum.
-
B.
The Cold Light of Day
The Cold Light of Day is a 2012 action thriller film starring Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, and Sigourney Weaver about a young man whose family is kidnapped during a sailing trip in Spain, forcing him into a web of espionage and government conspiracy.
-
C.
The Sunblind
"The Sunblind" is a Cubist painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris, exemplifying his distinctive use of geometric forms and luminous color.
-
D.
Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin that follows a doomed space expedition haunted by a mysterious presence aboard a starship.
-
E.
Full Dark, No Stars
Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King that explore themes of revenge, guilt, and the darker sides of human nature.
- 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: Night Sky with Exit Wounds Target entity description: Night Sky with Exit Wounds is Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed debut poetry collection, known for its lyrical exploration of war, migration, queerness, and family.
-
A.
The Hollow Places
The Hollow Places is a contemporary horror novel by T. Kingfisher that blends cosmic dread, dark humor, and portal fantasy as a woman discovers a terrifying alternate world hidden behind a wall in her uncle’s museum.
-
B.
The Cold Light of Day
The Cold Light of Day is a 2012 action thriller film starring Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, and Sigourney Weaver about a young man whose family is kidnapped during a sailing trip in Spain, forcing him into a web of espionage and government conspiracy.
-
C.
The Sunblind
"The Sunblind" is a Cubist painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris, exemplifying his distinctive use of geometric forms and luminous color.
-
D.
Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin that follows a doomed space expedition haunted by a mysterious presence aboard a starship.
-
E.
Full Dark, No Stars
Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King that explore themes of revenge, guilt, and the darker sides of human nature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Ocean Vuong ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Forward Prize for Best First Collection
ⓘ
linked to:
Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
T. S. Eliot Prize ⓘ Whiting Award ⓘ
linked to:
Whiting Writers' Award
|
| countryOfPublication |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| debutWorkOf | Ocean Vuong ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
father–son relationships
ⓘ
history and memory ⓘ immigrant life in America ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ masculinity ⓘ mother–son relationships ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Vietnamese American experience
ⓘ
queer identity ⓘ refugee experience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American poetry ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Vietnam War
ⓘ
diaspora ⓘ family ⓘ love ⓘ memory ⓘ migration ⓘ queerness ⓘ trauma ⓘ violence ⓘ war ⓘ |
| notablePoem |
Aubade with Burning City
ⓘ
Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong ⓘ Telemachus ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| publisher | Copper Canyon Press ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| shortlistedFor | Kate Tufts Discovery Award ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
fragmented narrative
ⓘ
imagistic ⓘ intertextual references ⓘ lyrical language ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism ⓘ |
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: Night Sky with Exit Wounds Description of subject: Night Sky with Exit Wounds is Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed debut poetry collection, known for its lyrical exploration of war, migration, queerness, and family.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.