The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sound and the Fury Context triple: [American literature, hasNotableWork, The Sound and the Fury]
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamour and disillusionment of the American Jazz Age through the tragic story of Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck’s landmark 1939 novel that follows the Joad family’s harrowing journey from Oklahoma to California, exposing the human cost of economic hardship and social injustice during the Great Depression.
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E.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a landmark 1939 American epic historical romance film set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, renowned for its grand scale, cultural impact, and enduring popularity.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sound and the Fury Target entity description: The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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A.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamour and disillusionment of the American Jazz Age through the tragic story of Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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D.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck’s landmark 1939 novel that follows the Joad family’s harrowing journey from Oklahoma to California, exposing the human cost of economic hardship and social injustice during the Great Depression.
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E.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a landmark 1939 American epic historical romance film set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, renowned for its grand scale, cultural impact, and enduring popularity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Sound and the Fury
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film adaptation ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| awarded | Modern Library 100 Best Novels list inclusion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fictionalUniverse | Yoknapatawpha County cycle ⓘ |
| followedBy | As I Lay Dying ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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modernist fiction ⓘ stream-of-consciousness fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Caroline Compson
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Luster ⓘ Miss Quentin ⓘ Mr. Jason Compson III ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
considered one of the greatest American novels
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landmark of stream-of-consciousness technique ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Benjy Compson
ⓘ
Caddy Compson ⓘ Dilsey Gibson ⓘ Jason Compson IV ⓘ Quentin Compson ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure |
nonlinear timeline
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shifting perspectives ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
multiple narrators
ⓘ
stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| precededBy | Sartoris ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1929-10-07 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith ⓘ |
| ranked | among the top American novels of the 20th century ⓘ |
| sectionNarrator |
Benjy Compson
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Jason Compson IV ⓘ Quentin Compson ⓘ third-person narrator ⓘ |
| setting |
Jefferson, Mississippi
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Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| structure | four sections ⓘ |
| theme |
decline of the Southern aristocracy
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family disintegration ⓘ gender and sexuality ⓘ loss and nostalgia ⓘ race and class in the American South ⓘ time and memory ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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Yoknapatawpha River
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Dilsey’s section of The Sound and the Fury
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Caddy Compson
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Caddy Compson
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Jason’s section of The Sound and the Fury
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Caddy Compson
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1929 (The Sound and the Fury)
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The Sound and the Fury (1929 novel)
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Jason section of The Sound and the Fury
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Dilsey section of The Sound and the Fury