Jazz Age literature
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Jazz Age literature encompasses the fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1920s that captured the era’s exuberance, moral ambiguity, and social change, often associated with writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jazz Age literature canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jazz Age literature Context triple: [Jordan Baker, literaryEra, Jazz Age literature]
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A.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Living in the ’20s
Living in the ’20s is a track by the rock band Saviors, known for its energetic, guitar-driven sound and vintage-inspired style.
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C.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
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D.
Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
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Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories, capturing the glamour, disillusionment, and changing social mores of Jazz Age America.
- 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: Jazz Age literature Target entity description: Jazz Age literature encompasses the fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1920s that captured the era’s exuberance, moral ambiguity, and social change, often associated with writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
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A.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
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B.
Living in the ’20s
Living in the ’20s is a track by the rock band Saviors, known for its energetic, guitar-driven sound and vintage-inspired style.
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C.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
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D.
Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
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E.
Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories, capturing the glamour, disillusionment, and changing social mores of Jazz Age America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century literature
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literary movement ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Roaring Twenties literature
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literature of the Jazz Age ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
depiction of exuberance
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depiction of moral ambiguity ⓘ experimentation with narrative style ⓘ exploration of hedonism ⓘ focus on social change ⓘ focus on youth culture ⓘ portrayal of disillusionment ⓘ urban settings ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
initially mixed
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later canonized as classic American literature ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
Roaring Twenties
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surface form:
Jazz Age
Roaring Twenties ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasGeographicFocus |
Midwestern United States
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New York City ⓘ Paris ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| hasNotableAuthor |
Anita Loos
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Dorothy Parker ⓘ Edna St. Vincent Millay ⓘ Ernest Hemingway ⓘ F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ John Dos Passos ⓘ Langston Hughes ⓘ Sinclair Lewis ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ William Faulkner ⓘ Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
A Farewell to Arms
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Babbitt ⓘ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ⓘ Main Street ⓘ Manhattan Transfer ⓘ The Great Gatsby ⓘ The Sun Also Rises ⓘ The Waste Land ⓘ This Side of Paradise ⓘ poetry of the Harlem Renaissance ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
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class conflict ⓘ consumerism ⓘ gender roles ⓘ generational conflict ⓘ materialism ⓘ modernity ⓘ postwar disillusionment ⓘ prohibition culture ⓘ sexual liberation ⓘ American Dream ⓘ
surface form:
the American Dream
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| hasTimePeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| influences |
campus novels about the 1920s
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later American fiction ⓘ representations of the American Dream in literature ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Harlem Renaissance
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Lost Generation ⓘ flapper culture ⓘ speakeasies ⓘ |
| isInfluencedBy |
Prohibition era in the United States
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surface form:
Prohibition in the United States
World War I ⓘ changing social norms ⓘ economic boom of the 1920s ⓘ jazz music ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
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