The Golden Notebook
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The Golden Notebook is a landmark 1962 novel by Doris Lessing that explores women's psychological fragmentation, politics, and creativity through an experimental, metafictional structure.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Golden Notebook canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6945902 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Golden Notebook Context triple: [Doris Lessing, notableWork, The Golden Notebook]
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A.
A Garden of Pomegranates
A Garden of Pomegranates is a seminal occult text by Israel Regardie that systematically explores the Qabalistic Tree of Life and its symbolism for students of Western esotericism.
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B.
The Waves
The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.
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C.
The Nutmeg of Consolation
The Nutmeg of Consolation is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, continuing the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 romantic drama film, based on Graham Greene’s novel, about a passionate but doomed love affair set in World War II–era London.
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E.
A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Golden Notebook Target entity description: The Golden Notebook is a landmark 1962 novel by Doris Lessing that explores women's psychological fragmentation, politics, and creativity through an experimental, metafictional structure.
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A.
A Garden of Pomegranates
A Garden of Pomegranates is a seminal occult text by Israel Regardie that systematically explores the Qabalistic Tree of Life and its symbolism for students of Western esotericism.
-
B.
The Waves
The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.
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C.
The Nutmeg of Consolation
The Nutmeg of Consolation is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, continuing the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 romantic drama film, based on Graham Greene’s novel, about a passionate but doomed love affair set in World War II–era London.
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E.
A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Doris Lessing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Prix Médicis étranger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
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literary fiction ⓘ metafiction ⓘ modernist novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Golden Notebook (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInList |
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (readers' list)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
feminist literary criticism
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second-wave feminism ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780060931407 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
experimental narrative form
ⓘ
landmark of feminist literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Anna Wulf
NERFINISHED
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Molly Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | frame narrative intercut with notebooks ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
metafiction
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shifting perspectives ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 600 ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | writer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| publisher | Michael Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Southern Rhodesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structureElement |
black notebook
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blue notebook NERFINISHED ⓘ golden notebook NERFINISHED ⓘ red notebook ⓘ yellow notebook ⓘ |
| theme |
Cold War politics
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colonialism ⓘ communism ⓘ creativity ⓘ feminism ⓘ friendship between women ⓘ mental breakdown ⓘ politics ⓘ sexual relationships ⓘ women's psychological fragmentation ⓘ writer's block ⓘ |
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