Beat Generation
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The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beat Generation canonical | 145 |
| Beat Generation writers | 6 |
| Beat poets | 6 |
| Beat Generation poets | 4 |
| Beat Generation literature | 3 |
| The Beat Generation | 3 |
| Beat Generation aesthetics | 2 |
| Beat Generation circle | 1 |
| Beat Generation novels | 1 |
| Beat culture | 1 |
| Beat movement | 1 |
| Beat poets of the West Coast | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110751 — 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.
Target entity: Beat Generation Context triple: [American literature, hasPeriod, Beat Generation]
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Fireside Poets
The Fireside Poets were a group of 19th-century New England writers known for their accessible, morally themed, and often patriotic poetry that was widely read in American households.
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group was an influential early 20th-century circle of English writers, artists, and intellectuals known for their modernist ideas, progressive politics, and unconventional personal relationships.
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New Frontier
New Frontier was the name given to President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious domestic and foreign policy agenda of the early 1960s, emphasizing social reform, economic growth, and a vigorous response to Cold War challenges.
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Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Beat Generation Target entity description: The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
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A.
Fireside Poets
The Fireside Poets were a group of 19th-century New England writers known for their accessible, morally themed, and often patriotic poetry that was widely read in American households.
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B.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
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C.
Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group was an influential early 20th-century circle of English writers, artists, and intellectuals known for their modernist ideas, progressive politics, and unconventional personal relationships.
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D.
New Frontier
New Frontier was the name given to President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious domestic and foreign policy agenda of the early 1960s, emphasizing social reform, economic growth, and a vigorous response to Cold War challenges.
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E.
Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural movement
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literary movement ⓘ |
| centeredIn |
New York City
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San Francisco ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
essays
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memoir ⓘ novels ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasMainSubject |
Buddhism
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Eastern philosophy ⓘ counterculture ⓘ drug use ⓘ jazz ⓘ nonconformity ⓘ sexuality ⓘ spirituality ⓘ spontaneous prose ⓘ travel ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Allen Ginsberg
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Gary Snyder ⓘ Gregory Corso ⓘ Herbert Huncke ⓘ Jack Kerouac ⓘ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ Neal Cassady ⓘ Peter Orlovsky ⓘ William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
Dharma Bums
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Howl ⓘ Junkie ⓘ Kaddish ⓘ Naked Lunch ⓘ On the Road ⓘ |
| inception | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
1960s counterculture
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Beatniks ⓘ New Left ⓘ hippie movement ⓘ performance poetry ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ rock music lyrics ⓘ spoken word poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dada
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Romanticism ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ Transcendentalism ⓘ Chan Buddhism ⓘ
surface form:
Zen Buddhism
jazz music ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainRegion |
North America
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| movementCharacteristic |
critique of materialism
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experimentation with form ⓘ exploration of consciousness ⓘ open discussion of sexuality ⓘ rejection of conventional values ⓘ road narratives ⓘ spontaneous composition ⓘ stream-of-consciousness writing ⓘ urban settings ⓘ use of taboo language ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Beatniks
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surface form:
Beatnik
Black Mountain poets ⓘ Confessional poetry ⓘ San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Beat Generation Description of subject: The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
Referenced by (174)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.