Wise Blood
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Wise Blood is a darkly comic Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor that follows a disillusioned war veteran who founds a bizarre anti-religious ministry in a decaying Southern town.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wise Blood canonical | 20 |
| Wise Blood (1979 film) | 2 |
| Wise Blood (1952 novel) | 1 |
| Wise Blood (1952) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505706 — 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: Wise Blood Context triple: [Southern Gothic, associatedWithWork, Wise Blood]
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A.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a classic short story by Flannery O’Connor that exemplifies Southern Gothic fiction through its dark humor, moral ambiguity, and violent exploration of grace and redemption in the American South.
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B.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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C.
The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a serialized novel by Stephen King that blends supernatural elements with a poignant death-row drama set in a 1930s Southern prison.
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D.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
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E.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
- 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: Wise Blood Target entity description: Wise Blood is a darkly comic Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor that follows a disillusioned war veteran who founds a bizarre anti-religious ministry in a decaying Southern town.
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A.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a classic short story by Flannery O’Connor that exemplifies Southern Gothic fiction through its dark humor, moral ambiguity, and violent exploration of grace and redemption in the American South.
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B.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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C.
The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a serialized novel by Stephen King that blends supernatural elements with a poignant death-row drama set in a 1930s Southern prison.
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D.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
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E.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern Gothic novel
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dark comedy novel ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author |
Flannery O'Connor
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surface form:
Flannery O’Connor
|
| basedOn | Wise Blood self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| centralConflict | Hazel Motes’s struggle to reject and yet be haunted by Christian belief ⓘ |
| character |
Asa Hawks
ⓘ
Enoch Emery ⓘ Hazel Motes ⓘ Hoover Shoats ⓘ Leora Watts ⓘ Mrs. Flood ⓘ Sabbath Lily Hawks ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
blindness
ⓘ
false prophets ⓘ grotesque bodily harm ⓘ religious street preaching ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Huston ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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dark comedy ⓘ religious fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Wise Blood
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
|
| hasInfluenceOn |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southern Gothic literature
|
| literaryMovement | Southern Gothic literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered one of Flannery O’Connor’s major works ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hazel Motes ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic treatment of religious fanaticism
ⓘ
use of grotesque characters ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The novel follows Hazel Motes, a disillusioned war veteran who founds the anti-religious Church Without Christ in a decaying Southern town. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Hazel Motes ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Harcourt Brace & World
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surface form:
Harcourt Brace
|
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| setInPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| setInRegion |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| setting | fictional city of Taulkinham, Tennessee ⓘ |
| theme |
faith versus nihilism
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grace and redemption ⓘ religious belief and unbelief ⓘ satire of American Protestantism ⓘ spiritual blindness ⓘ violence and grotesque imagery ⓘ |
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Subject: Wise Blood Description of subject: Wise Blood is a darkly comic Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor that follows a disillusioned war veteran who founds a bizarre anti-religious ministry in a decaying Southern town.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
subject surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
subject surface form:
Flannery O'Connor
subject surface form:
Mary Flannery O'Connor
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1952 novel)
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1952)