Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes was an American modernist writer, journalist, and artist best known for her avant-garde novel "Nightwood" and her central role in the bohemian literary circles of early 20th-century Paris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Djuna Barnes canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549104 — 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: Djuna Barnes Context triple: [Lost Generation, hasNotableMember, Djuna Barnes]
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
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B.
Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach was an American-born bookseller and publisher in Paris best known for founding the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publishing James Joyce’s *Ulysses*.
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C.
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
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D.
Margaret Mansfield
Margaret Mansfield was the first wife of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold, with whom she had several children before her death in the early 1770s.
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E.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
- 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: Djuna Barnes Target entity description: Djuna Barnes was an American modernist writer, journalist, and artist best known for her avant-garde novel "Nightwood" and her central role in the bohemian literary circles of early 20th-century Paris.
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A.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
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B.
Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach was an American-born bookseller and publisher in Paris best known for founding the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publishing James Joyce’s *Ulysses*.
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C.
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
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D.
Margaret Mansfield
Margaret Mansfield was the first wife of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold, with whom she had several children before her death in the early 1770s.
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E.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
human ⓘ journalist ⓘ modernist writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
James Joyce
ⓘ
Natalie Clifford Barney ⓘ Parisian expatriate community ⓘ Peggy Guggenheim ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1892-06-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-06-18 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Nightwood was praised by T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Art Students League of New York
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Pratt Institute (Brooklyn campus) ⓘ
surface form:
Pratt Institute
|
| familyName | Barnes ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ modernist fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Djuna ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | LGBT literary canon ⓘ |
| hasPartInBibliography |
plays
ⓘ
poetry collections ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| influenced |
modernist writers and critics
ⓘ
queer literature ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | bohemian literary circles in Paris ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde
ⓘ
modernism ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ |
| name | Djuna Barnes self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | depictions of lesbian and queer relationships in literature ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ladies Almanack
ⓘ
Nightwood ⓘ Ryder ⓘ Spillway ⓘ The Antiphon ⓘ The Book of Repulsive Women ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
illustrator ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Lost Generation
ⓘ
surface form:
Lost Generation literary scene
modernist literary movement in Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cornwall-on-Hudson
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
|
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| religion | raised in an unconventional, non-orthodox household ⓘ |
| residence |
Greenwich Village
ⓘ
surface form:
Greenwich Village, New York City
Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | bisexual ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| workedAs |
feature writer
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illustrator for magazines ⓘ newspaper reporter ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Djuna Barnes Description of subject: Djuna Barnes was an American modernist writer, journalist, and artist best known for her avant-garde novel "Nightwood" and her central role in the bohemian literary circles of early 20th-century Paris.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nightwood