The Unvanquished
E148478
The Unvanquished is a novel by William Faulkner that follows a Southern family's experiences during and after the American Civil War, exploring themes of honor, change, and the legacy of the Old South.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Unvanquished canonical | 9 |
| Compson family saga | 2 |
| The Unvanquished (1938, in composite form) | 1 |
| “The Unvanquished” | 1 |
| “The Unvanquished” (short story, later expanded) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1269209 — 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 Unvanquished Context triple: [William Faulkner, notableWork, The Unvanquished]
-
A.
Middle Ward
Middle Ward is the central section of Windsor Castle, dominated by the Round Tower and serving as a key defensive and symbolic core of the fortress.
-
B.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
-
C.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
-
D.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
-
E.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
- 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 Unvanquished Target entity description: The Unvanquished is a novel by William Faulkner that follows a Southern family's experiences during and after the American Civil War, exploring themes of honor, change, and the legacy of the Old South.
-
A.
Middle Ward
Middle Ward is the central section of Windsor Castle, dominated by the Round Tower and serving as a key defensive and symbolic core of the fortress.
-
B.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
-
C.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
-
D.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! is a 1936 novel by William Faulkner that intricately explores themes of Southern history, race, and family through a fragmented, multi-perspective narrative centered on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in Mississippi.
-
E.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationStatus | inspired stage and radio adaptations ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| awardStatus | considered a major work of William Faulkner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fictionalSetting | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serialized stories in magazines ⓘ |
| form | linked short stories ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“Ambuscade”
ⓘ
“An Odor of Verbena” ⓘ “Raid” ⓘ Retreat ⓘ
surface form:
“Retreat”
“Riposte in Tertio” ⓘ Skirmishes of an Untimely Man ⓘ
surface form:
“Skirmish at Sartoris”
Vendee ⓘ
surface form:
“Vendee”
|
| hasSubject |
American Civil War in literature
ⓘ
Southern United States in fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bayard Sartoris
ⓘ
Bayard Sartoris ⓘ
surface form:
Colonel John Sartoris
Drusilla ⓘ Ringo ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrator | Bayard Sartoris ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | 300 ⓘ |
| partOf | William Faulkner bibliography ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| series | Yoknapatawpha County stories ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| setInRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
|
| structure | seven stories ⓘ |
| theme |
change
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ honor ⓘ legacy of the Old South ⓘ race relations ⓘ violence and revenge ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfNarrative | from Civil War years into Reconstruction ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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.
Input
Subject: The Unvanquished Description of subject: The Unvanquished is a novel by William Faulkner that follows a Southern family's experiences during and after the American Civil War, exploring themes of honor, change, and the legacy of the Old South.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jason Compson III
this entity surface form:
Compson family saga
this entity surface form:
“The Unvanquished” (short story, later expanded)
this entity surface form:
The Unvanquished (1938, in composite form)
subject surface form:
Caddy Compson
this entity surface form:
Compson family saga