The Awkward Age
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The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James that explores the social and moral complexities of upper-class English society through the coming-of-age experiences of a young woman.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Awkward Age canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2210532 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Awkward Age Context triple: [Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, inspiredWork, The Awkward Age]
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A.
This Is Our Youth
This Is Our Youth is a critically acclaimed stage play by Kenneth Lonergan that portrays the aimlessness and moral drift of affluent New York City teenagers in the early 1980s.
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B.
The Static Age
The Static Age is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their rock opera album "21st Century Breakdown."
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C.
The Social Climbers
"The Social Climbers" is an episode of the BBC nature documentary series "The Life of Mammals" that explores the behavior and adaptations of tree-dwelling and socially complex mammal species.
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D.
No Hard Feelings
No Hard Feelings is a 2023 American coming-of-age sex comedy film starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman hired to date a socially awkward teenager before he leaves for college.
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E.
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British period comedy-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Fry, that satirically portrays the hedonistic lives of young socialites in 1930s London.
- 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 Awkward Age Target entity description: The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James that explores the social and moral complexities of upper-class English society through the coming-of-age experiences of a young woman.
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A.
This Is Our Youth
This Is Our Youth is a critically acclaimed stage play by Kenneth Lonergan that portrays the aimlessness and moral drift of affluent New York City teenagers in the early 1980s.
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B.
The Static Age
The Static Age is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their rock opera album "21st Century Breakdown."
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C.
The Social Climbers
"The Social Climbers" is an episode of the BBC nature documentary series "The Life of Mammals" that explores the behavior and adaptations of tree-dwelling and socially complex mammal species.
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D.
No Hard Feelings
No Hard Feelings is a 2023 American coming-of-age sex comedy film starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman hired to date a socially awkward teenager before he leaves for college.
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E.
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British period comedy-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Fry, that satirically portrays the hedonistic lives of young socialites in 1930s London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Henry James ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
coming of age
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moral ambiguity ⓘ social conventions ⓘ upper-class society ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| examines |
clash between innocence and experience
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generational conflict ⓘ gossip and reputation ⓘ marriage as social transaction ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | Harper's Weekly ⓘ |
| firstPublishedAs | serial ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | upper-class English society ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
later critical appreciation
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mixed contemporary reviews ⓘ |
| hasISBN | various modern editions ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
complex conversational scenes
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indirect presentation of events ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
English upper-class society
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young woman's maturation ⓘ |
| includedIn | Henry James bibliographies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
novel of manners
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psychological fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernist precursor
ⓘ
Realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Mr. Longdon
ⓘ
Mrs. Brookenham ⓘ Nanda Brookenham ⓘ Vanderbank ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | dialogue-driven narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of social interaction
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extensive use of dialogue ⓘ minimal authorial narration ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 1899 ⓘ |
| partOf | Henry James's late period works ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper & Brothers ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| structure | divided into books and chapters ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 19th century ⓘ |
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