Stephen Hero
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Stephen Hero is an early, unfinished autobiographical novel by James Joyce that served as a precursor to his later work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring the character Stephen Dedalus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen Hero canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4814474 — 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: Stephen Hero Context triple: [Stephen Dedalus, associatedWork, Stephen Hero]
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A.
Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy is a comic, digressive 18th-century novel by Laurence Sterne, famous for its unconventional narrative structure and playful metafictional style.
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B.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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C.
Coningsby
Coningsby is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, known for its historic church and nearby RAF Coningsby airbase.
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D.
Barré Lyndon
Barré Lyndon was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting works for film, including contributing to the screenplay of the Academy Award–winning drama "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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E.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
- 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: Stephen Hero Target entity description: Stephen Hero is an early, unfinished autobiographical novel by James Joyce that served as a precursor to his later work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring the character Stephen Dedalus.
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A.
Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy is a comic, digressive 18th-century novel by Laurence Sterne, famous for its unconventional narrative structure and playful metafictional style.
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B.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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C.
Coningsby
Coningsby is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, known for its historic church and nearby RAF Coningsby airbase.
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D.
Barré Lyndon
Barré Lyndon was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting works for film, including contributing to the screenplay of the Academy Award–winning drama "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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E.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobiographical novel
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modernist literature work ⓘ unfinished novel ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of James Joyce ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Stephen Dedalus cycle
ⓘ
linked to:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical fiction
ⓘ
bildungsroman ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Emma Clery
ⓘ
Simon Dedalus ⓘ Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Irish nationalism
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artistic development ⓘ education ⓘ family conflict ⓘ individual vs society ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| influencedWork | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ⓘ |
| isPrecursorTo | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| precedes | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfWriting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workStatus | unfinished ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Stephen Hero Description of subject: Stephen Hero is an early, unfinished autobiographical novel by James Joyce that served as a precursor to his later work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring the character Stephen Dedalus.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.