De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period
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"De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period" is a short story by J.D. Salinger that follows a young, self-important artist’s comic and poignant experiences while teaching at a correspondence art school in Montreal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12875257 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period Context triple: [Nine Stories, hasStory, De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period]
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Portrait de l’artiste
"Portrait de l’artiste" is a Cubist painting by French artist Henri Le Fauconnier that exemplifies his bold, geometric approach to modernist portraiture.
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B.
La Nouvelle peinture
La Nouvelle peinture is an influential critical essay by Edmond Duranty that helped define and legitimize the emerging Impressionist movement in late 19th-century French art.
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C.
De la peinture au Salon de 1870
De la peinture au Salon de 1870 is an influential critical essay by Edmond Duranty that helped articulate and defend the emerging principles of modern, realist painting in late 19th-century France.
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D.
After Degas
"After Degas" is a conceptual artwork series by Sherrie Levine that re-photographs and appropriates Edgar Degas’s images to question originality, authorship, and the nature of artistic reproduction.
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E.
After Degas
"After Degas" is a photographic artwork by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz in which he recreates and reinterprets a famous Edgar Degas composition using unconventional materials before documenting it in a photograph.
- 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: De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period Target entity description: "De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period" is a short story by J.D. Salinger that follows a young, self-important artist’s comic and poignant experiences while teaching at a correspondence art school in Montreal.
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A.
Portrait de l’artiste
"Portrait de l’artiste" is a Cubist painting by French artist Henri Le Fauconnier that exemplifies his bold, geometric approach to modernist portraiture.
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B.
La Nouvelle peinture
La Nouvelle peinture is an influential critical essay by Edmond Duranty that helped define and legitimize the emerging Impressionist movement in late 19th-century French art.
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C.
De la peinture au Salon de 1870
De la peinture au Salon de 1870 is an influential critical essay by Edmond Duranty that helped articulate and defend the emerging principles of modern, realist painting in late 19th-century France.
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D.
After Degas
"After Degas" is a conceptual artwork series by Sherrie Levine that re-photographs and appropriates Edgar Degas’s images to question originality, authorship, and the nature of artistic reproduction.
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E.
After Degas
"After Degas" is a photographic artwork by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz in which he recreates and reinterprets a famous Edgar Degas composition using unconventional materials before documenting it in a photograph.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
short story
ⓘ
work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | J. D. Salinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresMotif |
Catholic imagery
ⓘ
art instruction ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | World Review NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short story fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jean de Daumier-Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madame Daumier-Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ R. H. T. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamamoto sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely studied in Salinger scholarship ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice |
retrospective narration
ⓘ
unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
artistic ambition
ⓘ
correspondence art school ⓘ identity construction ⓘ |
| includedIn | Nine Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfCycle | Salinger’s postwar short stories ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | short fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
art and authenticity
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isolation ⓘ self-deception ⓘ spiritual awakening ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| partOf | J. D. Salinger bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodOfStory | 20th century ⓘ |
| protagonist | Jean de Daumier-Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | artist ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | correspondence art teacher ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Little, Brown and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| titleAlludesTo | Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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poignant ⓘ |
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