Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and theorist best known for his influential work "Anatomy of Criticism," which helped shape modern literary studies and structuralist criticism.
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| Northrop Frye canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4528104 — 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: Northrop Frye Context triple: [Frye, hasNotableBearer, Northrop Frye]
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A.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
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Meyer Howard Abrams
Meyer Howard Abrams was an influential American literary critic and scholar best known for his work on Romanticism and for editing the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
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C.
John Carey
John Carey is an American businessman best known as one of the early founders involved in establishing the semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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D.
Basil Bunting
Basil Bunting was a British modernist poet best known for his long poem "Briggflatts" and his association with the Objectivist movement.
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E.
I. A. Richards
I. A. Richards was a pioneering English literary critic and rhetorician whose work helped found the discipline of modern literary theory and practical criticism.
- 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: Northrop Frye Target entity description: Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and theorist best known for his influential work "Anatomy of Criticism," which helped shape modern literary studies and structuralist criticism.
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A.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
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B.
Meyer Howard Abrams
Meyer Howard Abrams was an influential American literary critic and scholar best known for his work on Romanticism and for editing the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
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C.
John Carey
John Carey is an American businessman best known as one of the early founders involved in establishing the semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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D.
Basil Bunting
Basil Bunting was a British modernist poet best known for his long poem "Briggflatts" and his association with the Objectivist movement.
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E.
I. A. Richards
I. A. Richards was a pioneering English literary critic and rhetorician whose work helped found the discipline of modern literary theory and practical criticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ literary theorist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Canada
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Royal Society of Canada Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1912-07-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-01-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Merton College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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University of Toronto ⓘ Victoria College, University of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Toronto
NERFINISHED
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Victoria College, University of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Frye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biblical criticism
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comparative literature ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ literary theory ⓘ |
| fullName | Herman Northrop Frye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Herman
NERFINISHED
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Northrop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Harold Bloom
NERFINISHED
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North American literary criticism ⓘ literary structuralism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Giambattista Vico NERFINISHED ⓘ William Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
myth criticism
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structuralism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
anatomy of criticism as systematic poetics
NERFINISHED
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archetypal criticism ⓘ mythoi of literature ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anatomy of Criticism
NERFINISHED
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Fearful Symmetry NERFINISHED ⓘ The Educated Imagination NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Code NERFINISHED ⓘ Words with Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | minister ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Toronto, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
principal of Victoria College
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professor of English literature ⓘ |
| religion | United Church of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen Kemp Frye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Northrop Frye Description of subject: Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and theorist best known for his influential work "Anatomy of Criticism," which helped shape modern literary studies and structuralist criticism.
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