Look Homeward, Angel
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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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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486128 — 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: Look Homeward, Angel Context triple: [Kermit Bloomgarden, notableWork, Look Homeward, Angel]
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A.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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B.
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.
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C.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
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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.
Way Down East
Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
- 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: Look Homeward, Angel Target entity description: 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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A.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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B.
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.
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C.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
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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.
Way Down East
Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coming-of-age novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Look Homeward, Angel
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (play)
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| adaptationType | stage play ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Wolfe ⓘ |
| basedOn | Thomas Wolfe's early life ⓘ |
| containsElement |
regional detail of the American South
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semi-autobiographical characters ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| debutWorkOf | Thomas Wolfe ⓘ |
| fictionalTownName | Altamont ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | Of Time and the River ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical novel
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coming-of-age fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
eccentric family members
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impoverished boardinghouse residents ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTownBasedOn | Asheville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificance | major work of American literature ⓘ |
| languageStyle |
highly descriptive
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lyrical ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Eliza Gant
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Eugene Gant ⓘ W. O. Gant ⓘ |
| marketedAs | novel ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed autobiographical elements
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lyrical prose style ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| protagonist | Eugene Gant ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1929 ⓘ |
| publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| setting |
Altamont, North Carolina
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early 20th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Gant family dynamics
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youth of Eugene Gant ⓘ |
| theme |
ambition
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coming of age ⓘ family relationships ⓘ identity ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | line from John Milton's poem "Lycidas" ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Look Homeward, Angel Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (play)
this entity surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (as editor)
this entity surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (stage adaptation)
this entity surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (novel)
subject surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (stage adaptation)
this entity surface form:
Look Homeward, Angel (novel by Thomas Wolfe)
this entity surface form:
the fictional world of Look Homeward, Angel