James Joyce’s The Dead
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James Joyce’s The Dead is a musical adaptation of James Joyce’s famous short story, focusing on themes of memory, love, and Irish identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Joyce’s The Dead canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Joyce’s The Dead Context triple: [Alice Ripley, performedIn, James Joyce’s The Dead]
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A.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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B.
In Memoriam James Joyce
In Memoriam James Joyce is a poetic work by Scottish modernist writer Christopher Murray Grieve, better known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, reflecting on and paying tribute to the Irish author James Joyce.
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C.
James Joyce’s Dublin
James Joyce’s Dublin is the richly detailed, early-20th-century Irish cityscape that serves as the primary setting and symbolic landscape for many of Joyce’s works, including Ulysses and Dubliners.
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D.
Joyce
Joyce is the given name of Joyce Carol Oates, a prominent American author known for her prolific and award-winning literary work.
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E.
Samuel Beckett’s trilogy
Samuel Beckett’s trilogy is a landmark sequence of three modernist novels—Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable—known for their bleak humor, experimental style, and exploration of identity and existence.
- 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: James Joyce’s The Dead Target entity description: James Joyce’s The Dead is a musical adaptation of James Joyce’s famous short story, focusing on themes of memory, love, and Irish identity.
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A.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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B.
In Memoriam James Joyce
In Memoriam James Joyce is a poetic work by Scottish modernist writer Christopher Murray Grieve, better known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, reflecting on and paying tribute to the Irish author James Joyce.
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C.
James Joyce’s Dublin
James Joyce’s Dublin is the richly detailed, early-20th-century Irish cityscape that serves as the primary setting and symbolic landscape for many of Joyce’s works, including Ulysses and Dubliners.
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D.
Joyce
Joyce is the given name of Joyce Carol Oates, a prominent American author known for her prolific and award-winning literary work.
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E.
Samuel Beckett’s trilogy
Samuel Beckett’s trilogy is a landmark sequence of three modernist novels—Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable—known for their bleak humor, experimental style, and exploration of identity and existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical adaptation
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stage musical ⓘ |
| adaptationFocus |
cultural and social milieu of Ireland
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emotional interiority of characters ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | short story ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Aunts Kate and Julia Morkan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gretta Conroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
ensemble scenes
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songs ⓘ |
| hasDialogue | spoken dialogue ⓘ |
| hasForm | book musical ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Gabriel Conroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedium | live performance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
epiphany
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family gathering ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | adaptation of prose narrative to stage ⓘ |
| portrays |
Catholic cultural traditions in Ireland
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Irish middle-class society ⓘ tension between personal and national loyalties ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Dubliners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| subject |
Irish identity
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love ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| theme |
marital relationships
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mortality ⓘ national identity ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ the persistence of the past ⓘ |
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