The Egoist
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The Egoist was a British literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and later Harriet Shaw Weaver, known for publishing modernist and avant-garde writers including early work by James Joyce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Egoist canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10199782 — 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 Egoist Context triple: [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, firstSerialized, The Egoist]
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A.
The Romantic Egoists
The Romantic Egoists is a posthumously compiled collection of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s letters, photographs, and personal memorabilia that offers an intimate portrait of their lives and the Jazz Age milieu they inhabited.
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B.
The Book of the New Moral World
The Book of the New Moral World is a foundational 19th-century socialist treatise by Robert Owen outlining his vision for a rational, cooperative reorganization of society.
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C.
Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores psychological torment and obsessive self-absorption through the symbol of a serpent dwelling in a man's chest.
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D.
The Ego and Its Own
The Ego and Its Own is a seminal 1844 philosophical work by Max Stirner that presents a radical form of individualist anarchism centered on the sovereignty of the unique ego over all ideological abstractions.
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E.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground is a seminal 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores the psychology of a bitter, isolated narrator and is often considered one of the first existentialist works of literature.
- 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 Egoist Target entity description: The Egoist was a British literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and later Harriet Shaw Weaver, known for publishing modernist and avant-garde writers including early work by James Joyce.
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A.
The Romantic Egoists
The Romantic Egoists is a posthumously compiled collection of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s letters, photographs, and personal memorabilia that offers an intimate portrait of their lives and the Jazz Age milieu they inhabited.
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B.
The Book of the New Moral World
The Book of the New Moral World is a foundational 19th-century socialist treatise by Robert Owen outlining his vision for a rational, cooperative reorganization of society.
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C.
Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores psychological torment and obsessive self-absorption through the symbol of a serpent dwelling in a man's chest.
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D.
The Ego and Its Own
The Ego and Its Own is a seminal 1844 philosophical work by Max Stirner that presents a radical form of individualist anarchism centered on the sovereignty of the unique ego over all ideological abstractions.
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E.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground is a seminal 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores the psychology of a bitter, isolated narrator and is often considered one of the first existentialist works of literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary magazine
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modernist magazine ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Little magazines movement
NERFINISHED
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London literary scene ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| editor |
Dora Marsden
NERFINISHED
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Harriet Shaw Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
experimental literature
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modernist fiction ⓘ modernist poetry ⓘ |
| format | periodical ⓘ |
| genre | literary magazine ⓘ |
| knownFor |
publishing avant-garde writers
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publishing early work by James Joyce ⓘ publishing modernist literature ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | individualist ⓘ |
| predecessor |
The Freewoman
NERFINISHED
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The New Freewoman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor |
Ezra Pound
NERFINISHED
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H.D. NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Aldington NERFINISHED ⓘ T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyndham Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
NERFINISHED
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excerpts from Ulysses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | The Egoist Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Egoist Description of subject: The Egoist was a British literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and later Harriet Shaw Weaver, known for publishing modernist and avant-garde writers including early work by James Joyce.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.