As I Lay Dying (1930)
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As I Lay Dying (1930) is William Faulkner’s modernist Southern Gothic novel that chronicles the Bundren family’s harrowing journey to fulfill their matriarch’s burial wishes through multiple shifting narrative perspectives.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| As I Lay Dying (1930) canonical | 2 |
| As I Lay Dying (1930 novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15506630 — 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: As I Lay Dying (1930) Context triple: [Jewel Bundren, firstPublicationContext, As I Lay Dying (1930)]
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A.
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road is a 1941 American film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, known for its darkly comic portrayal of a destitute rural Georgia family during the Great Depression.
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B.
The Day of the Locust (film)
The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film, based on Nathanael West’s novel, that offers a dark, satirical portrayal of Hollywood and the destructive dreams of those drawn to it in the 1930s.
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C.
Headlong
Headlong is a play by Welsh dramatist Emlyn Williams, best known for its tense psychological drama and sharply drawn characters.
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D.
Headlong
Headlong is a comic novel by Michael Frayn in which a hapless philosopher becomes obsessed with a possibly undiscovered Bruegel painting, blending farce with art-historical intrigue.
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E.
The Painted Angel
The Painted Angel is a 1929 silent drama film starring popular 1920s screen actress Billie Dove.
- 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: As I Lay Dying (1930) Target entity description: As I Lay Dying (1930) is William Faulkner’s modernist Southern Gothic novel that chronicles the Bundren family’s harrowing journey to fulfill their matriarch’s burial wishes through multiple shifting narrative perspectives.
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A.
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road is a 1941 American film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, known for its darkly comic portrayal of a destitute rural Georgia family during the Great Depression.
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B.
The Day of the Locust (film)
The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film, based on Nathanael West’s novel, that offers a dark, satirical portrayal of Hollywood and the destructive dreams of those drawn to it in the 1930s.
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C.
Headlong
Headlong is a play by Welsh dramatist Emlyn Williams, best known for its tense psychological drama and sharply drawn characters.
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D.
Headlong
Headlong is a comic novel by Michael Frayn in which a hapless philosopher becomes obsessed with a possibly undiscovered Bruegel painting, blending farce with art-historical intrigue.
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E.
The Painted Angel
The Painted Angel is a 1929 silent drama film starring popular 1920s screen actress Billie Dove.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
As I Lay Dying (1930 novel)