Lost Generation
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The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lost Generation canonical | 33 |
| Lost Generation literature | 3 |
| the Lost Generation | 2 |
| Lost Generation literary scene | 1 |
| writers of the Lost Generation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110756 — 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: Lost Generation Context triple: [American literature, hasMovement, Lost Generation]
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Beat Generation
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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Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
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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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Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is the middle name of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.
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Dirty Thirties
The Dirty Thirties refers to the devastating period of severe dust storms and agricultural collapse in the 1930s that ravaged the Great Plains of the United States and Canada during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lost Generation Target entity description: The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
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A.
Beat Generation
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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B.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
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C.
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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D.
Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is the middle name of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.
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E.
Dirty Thirties
The Dirty Thirties refers to the devastating period of severe dust storms and agricultural collapse in the 1930s that ravaged the Great Plains of the United States and Canada during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Lost Generation Description of subject: The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
Referenced by (40)
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