As I Lay Dying
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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness style as it follows a Southern family's journey to bury their matriarch.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| As I Lay Dying canonical | 27 |
| As I Lay Dying (2013 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: As I Lay Dying Context triple: [The Sound and the Fury, followedBy, As I Lay Dying]
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A.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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B.
Wise Blood
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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C.
I Sing the Body Electric
"I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
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D.
Tar Baby
"Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: As I Lay Dying Target entity description: As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness style as it follows a Southern family's journey to bury their matriarch.
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A.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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B.
Wise Blood
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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C.
I Sing the Body Electric
"I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
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D.
Tar Baby
"Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
As I Lay Dying
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
As I Lay Dying (2013 film)
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| author | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Salvatore Fiume ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely studied in American literature courses ⓘ |
| filmDirector | James Franco ⓘ |
| followedBy | Sanctuary ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
modernist novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Cora Tull
ⓘ
Reverend Whitfield ⓘ Vernon Tull ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Library of America edition
ⓘ
Modern Library ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Library edition
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| includedIn |
Yoknapatawpha saga
ⓘ
surface form:
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County cycle
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| libraryOfCongressClassification | PS3511.A86 A85 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered one of William Faulkner’s major works ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Addie Bundren
ⓘ
Anse Bundren ⓘ Cash Bundren ⓘ Darl Bundren ⓘ Dewey Dell Bundren ⓘ Jewel Bundren ⓘ Vardaman Bundren ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
multiple narrators
ⓘ
stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
each chapter is narrated by a different character voice
ⓘ
innovative use of interior monologue ⓘ |
| numberOfNarrators | 15 ⓘ |
| oclcNumber | 413268 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The Bundren family undertakes a difficult journey to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury their matriarch Addie Bundren. ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Sound and the Fury ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
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| structure | 59 chapters ⓘ |
| theme |
death and mortality
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family and obligation ⓘ isolation and communication ⓘ poverty and hardship in the rural South ⓘ |
| timeOfWriting | 1929 ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | derived from a line in Homer’s Odyssey (via an epigraph from Conrad Aiken) ⓘ |
| writingPeriod | written in about six weeks ⓘ |
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Subject: As I Lay Dying Description of subject: As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness style as it follows a Southern family's journey to bury their matriarch.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
As I Lay Dying (2013 film)
subject surface form:
Yocona River
subject surface form:
Yoknapatawpha River
subject surface form:
Library of America edition of As I Lay Dying