The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1940 novel by Carson McCullers that portrays the emotional isolation and inner lives of misfit characters in a small Depression-era Southern town.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter canonical | 16 |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940 novel) | 1 |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505707 — 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 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Context triple: [Southern Gothic, associatedWithWork, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]
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A.
Look Homeward, Angel
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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B.
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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C.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s debut novel, a seminal work of African American literature that explores themes of race, beauty, and identity through the tragic story of a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio.
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D.
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American crime drama film starring Sidney Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racially tense Southern town, noted for its powerful exploration of racism and social justice.
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E.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood is a darkly comic Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor that follows a disillusioned war veteran who founds a bizarre anti-religious ministry in a decaying Southern town.
- 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 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Target entity description: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1940 novel by Carson McCullers that portrays the emotional isolation and inner lives of misfit characters in a small Depression-era Southern town.
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A.
Look Homeward, Angel
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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B.
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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C.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s debut novel, a seminal work of African American literature that explores themes of race, beauty, and identity through the tragic story of a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio.
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D.
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American crime drama film starring Sidney Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racially tense Southern town, noted for its powerful exploration of racism and social justice.
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E.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood is a darkly comic Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor that follows a disillusioned war veteran who founds a bizarre anti-religious ministry in a decaying Southern town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film)
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| author | Carson McCullers ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | considered a classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| firstNovelOf | Carson McCullers ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
African American doctor
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adolescent girl ⓘ café owner ⓘ political radical ⓘ |
| hasSettingCharacteristic | small mill town ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
adolescence and coming of age
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political idealism and disillusionment ⓘ poverty in the American South ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Southern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Biff Brannon
ⓘ
Dr. Benedict Copeland ⓘ Jake Blount ⓘ John Singer ⓘ Mick Kelly ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early major work by Carson McCullers
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portrayal of misfit characters in a small Southern mill town ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | John Singer is deaf and mute ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| setInRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
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| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
communication and miscommunication
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disability and difference ⓘ isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ race relations in the American South ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | derived from a line in a poem by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) ⓘ |
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Subject: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Description of subject: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1940 novel by Carson McCullers that portrays the emotional isolation and inner lives of misfit characters in a small Depression-era Southern town.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film)
subject surface form:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film)
subject surface form:
Carson McCullers
subject surface form:
John Singer
subject surface form:
John Singer
subject surface form:
John Singer
this entity surface form:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940 novel)