Absalom, Absalom!
E146787
Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Absalom, Absalom! canonical | 17 |
| Absalom, Absalom! (shared Compson family context) | 1 |
| “Absalom, Absalom!” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1269205 — 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: Absalom, Absalom! Context triple: [William Faulkner, notableWork, Absalom, Absalom!]
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A.
Death of Absalom
Death of Absalom is the biblical account of King David’s rebellious son being killed during battle, marking a tragic climax in the narrative of 2 Samuel.
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B.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
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C.
Light in August
Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner that interweaves the lives of several characters in the American South to explore themes of identity, race, and moral decay.
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D.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores African American identity, family history, and the search for personal freedom through the life of its protagonist, Milkman Dead.
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E.
The Sound and the Fury
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.
- 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: Absalom, Absalom! Target entity description: Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
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A.
Death of Absalom
Death of Absalom is the biblical account of King David’s rebellious son being killed during battle, marking a tragic climax in the narrative of 2 Samuel.
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B.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
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C.
Light in August
Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner that interweaves the lives of several characters in the American South to explore themes of identity, race, and moral decay.
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D.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores African American identity, family history, and the search for personal freedom through the life of its protagonist, Milkman Dead.
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E.
The Sound and the Fury
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| coNarrator | Shreve McCannon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter |
Clytie Sutpen
ⓘ
General Compson ⓘ Mr. Coldfield ⓘ |
| firstPersonNarrator | Quentin Compson ⓘ |
| form | frame narrative ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
modernist novel ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Sutpen family
ⓘ
surface form:
Sutpen family saga
|
| hasSubject |
Civil War and Reconstruction South
ⓘ
rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Yoknapatawpha saga
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoknapatawpha County cycle
|
| inspiredBy | biblical story of Absalom ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Charles Bon
ⓘ
Thomas Sutpen ⓘ
surface form:
Henry Sutpen
Judith Sutpen ⓘ Quentin Compson ⓘ Rosa Coldfield ⓘ Thomas Sutpen ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | multiple unreliable narrators ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
multi-perspective narration
ⓘ
nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor | long, complex sentences ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeInSeries |
Yoknapatawpha saga
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoknapatawpha County novels
|
| publicationDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic of American literature
ⓘ
major work of William Faulkner ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
As I Lay Dying
ⓘ
The Sound and the Fury ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| setInPlace |
Mississippi
ⓘ
Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| theme |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
family history ⓘ memory and storytelling ⓘ miscegenation ⓘ myth of the Old South ⓘ race ⓘ slavery ⓘ the burden of the past ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| titlePunctuation | includes exclamation mark ⓘ |
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Subject: Absalom, Absalom! Description of subject: Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Absalom, Absalom! (shared Compson family context)
subject surface form:
Yocona River
subject surface form:
Yoknapatawpha River