Finnegans Wake
E236869
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Finnegans Wake canonical | 6 |
| Finnegans Wake Book I | 1 |
| Finnegans Wake Book II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finnegans Wake Context triple: [James Joyce, notableWork, Finnegans Wake]
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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C.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a landmark modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that presents a disembodied narrator’s fragmented, stream-of-consciousness monologue exploring identity, language, and existence.
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D.
Bloomsday
Bloomsday is an annual celebration held on June 16th that commemorates the events of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and honors its protagonist Leopold Bloom, especially in Dublin, Ireland.
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E.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
- 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: Finnegans Wake Target entity description: Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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C.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a landmark modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that presents a disembodied narrator’s fragmented, stream-of-consciousness monologue exploring identity, language, and existence.
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D.
Bloomsday
Bloomsday is an annual celebration held on June 16th that commemorates the events of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and honors its protagonist Leopold Bloom, especially in Dublin, Ireland.
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E.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental literature work
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modernist novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Work in Progress ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce ⓘ |
| centralCharacters |
Anna Livia Plurabelle
ⓘ
Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker ⓘ Issy ⓘ Shaun ⓘ Shem ⓘ |
| closingWords | A way a lone a last a loved a long the ⓘ |
| compositionPeriod | 1923–1939 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| difficultyLevel | notoriously difficult to read ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde literature
ⓘ
experimental fiction ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book I
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Book II ⓘ Book III ⓘ Book IV ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cyclical nature of history
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dream and subconscious ⓘ fall and resurrection ⓘ language and meaning ⓘ |
| influenced |
literary theory
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Giambattista Vico
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Irish history ⓘ folklore ⓘ mythology ⓘ song "Finnegan's Wake" ⓘ Bible ⓘ
surface form:
the Bible
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| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernism
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surface form:
High modernism
|
| narrativeStyle |
nonlinear narrative
ⓘ
stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dense wordplay
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multilingual puns ⓘ portmanteau words ⓘ radically unconventional narrative structure ⓘ |
| openingWords | riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Finnegans Wake self-link ⓘ |
| precededBy | Ulysses ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Faber and Faber
ⓘ
The Viking Press ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
|
| setting | Dublin ⓘ |
| structure | circular narrative ⓘ |
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Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Finnegans Wake Book I
this entity surface form:
Finnegans Wake Book II