Bayard Sartoris
E375587
Bayard Sartoris is a recurring member of the Sartoris family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often embodying themes of Southern honor, decay, and the burden of family legacy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bayard Sartoris canonical | 6 |
| Young Bayard Sartoris | 3 |
| Colonel John Sartoris | 2 |
| Old Bayard Sartoris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3632700 — 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: Bayard Sartoris Context triple: [Sartoris, featuresCharacter, Bayard Sartoris]
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Joseph Rucker Lamar
Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American lawyer, politician, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1911 until his death in 1916.
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James Pinckney Henderson
James Pinckney Henderson was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who played a key role in the annexation of Texas and became a prominent political leader in the mid-19th century.
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C.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
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E.
Ralph Izard
Ralph Izard was an American statesman and U.S. Senator from South Carolina who played a prominent role in the early federal government after the American Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Bayard Sartoris Target entity description: Bayard Sartoris is a recurring member of the Sartoris family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often embodying themes of Southern honor, decay, and the burden of family legacy.
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A.
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American lawyer, politician, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1911 until his death in 1916.
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B.
James Pinckney Henderson
James Pinckney Henderson was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who played a key role in the annexation of Texas and became a prominent political leader in the mid-19th century.
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C.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
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D.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
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Ralph Izard
Ralph Izard was an American statesman and U.S. Senator from South Carolina who played a prominent role in the early federal government after the American Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsDuringFictionalPeriod |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Flags in the Dust
ⓘ
Sartoris ⓘ The Unvanquished ⓘ “An Odor of Verbena” ⓘ “Raid” ⓘ Retreat ⓘ
surface form:
“Retreat”
“Skirmish at Sartoris” ⓘ The Unvanquished ⓘ
surface form:
“The Unvanquished” (short story, later expanded)
Vendee ⓘ
surface form:
“Vendee”
|
| associatedWithFamily | Sartoris family ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Southern honor
ⓘ
burden of family legacy ⓘ decay of the Old South ⓘ memory and history ⓘ violence and its renunciation ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | moves from a code of violent honor to a more modern moral stance ⓘ |
| countryOfAuthor |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWork |
The Unvanquished
ⓘ
surface form:
The Unvanquished (1938, in composite form)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSettingContext |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
postbellum Mississippi ⓘ |
| homeTownInFiction | Jefferson, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
modernist fiction ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| memberOfFictionalGroup | Southern planter aristocracy ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | confronts his father’s killer without taking revenge in “An Odor of Verbena” ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Miss Jenny Du Pre
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surface form:
Aunt Jenny Du Pre
Colonel John Sartoris ⓘ Drusilla ⓘ Bayard Sartoris self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Old Bayard Sartoris
Bayard Sartoris self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Young Bayard Sartoris
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| roleInFamilySaga | carrier of the Sartoris family legacy ⓘ |
| setInFictionalLocation | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
conflict between personal conscience and inherited honor code
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transition from Old South values to new ethical codes ⓘ |
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Subject: Bayard Sartoris Description of subject: Bayard Sartoris is a recurring member of the Sartoris family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often embodying themes of Southern honor, decay, and the burden of family legacy.
Referenced by (12)
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