The Egoist
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The Egoist was a British literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and later Harriet Shaw Weaver, known for publishing modernist and avant-garde writers including early work by James Joyce.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Egoist canonical | 3 |
| The Egoist (literary magazine) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10199782 — 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 Egoist Context triple: [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, firstSerialized, The Egoist]
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A.
The Romantic Egoists
The Romantic Egoists is a posthumously compiled collection of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s letters, photographs, and personal memorabilia that offers an intimate portrait of their lives and the Jazz Age milieu they inhabited.
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B.
The Book of the New Moral World
The Book of the New Moral World is a foundational 19th-century socialist treatise by Robert Owen outlining his vision for a rational, cooperative reorganization of society.
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C.
Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores psychological torment and obsessive self-absorption through the symbol of a serpent dwelling in a man's chest.
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D.
The Ego and Its Own
The Ego and Its Own is a seminal 1844 philosophical work by Max Stirner that presents a radical form of individualist anarchism centered on the sovereignty of the unique ego over all ideological abstractions.
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E.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground is a seminal 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores the psychology of a bitter, isolated narrator and is often considered one of the first existentialist works of literature.
- 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 Egoist Target entity description: The Egoist was a British literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and later Harriet Shaw Weaver, known for publishing modernist and avant-garde writers including early work by James Joyce.
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A.
The Romantic Egoists
The Romantic Egoists is a posthumously compiled collection of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s letters, photographs, and personal memorabilia that offers an intimate portrait of their lives and the Jazz Age milieu they inhabited.
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B.
The Book of the New Moral World
The Book of the New Moral World is a foundational 19th-century socialist treatise by Robert Owen outlining his vision for a rational, cooperative reorganization of society.
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C.
Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores psychological torment and obsessive self-absorption through the symbol of a serpent dwelling in a man's chest.
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D.
The Ego and Its Own
The Ego and Its Own is a seminal 1844 philosophical work by Max Stirner that presents a radical form of individualist anarchism centered on the sovereignty of the unique ego over all ideological abstractions.
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E.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground is a seminal 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores the psychology of a bitter, isolated narrator and is often considered one of the first existentialist works of literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary magazine
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modernist magazine ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Little magazines movement
ⓘ
London literary scene ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| editor |
Dora Marsden
ⓘ
Harriet Shaw Weaver ⓘ |
| focus |
experimental literature
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modernist fiction ⓘ modernist poetry ⓘ |
| format | periodical ⓘ |
| genre | literary magazine ⓘ |
| knownFor |
publishing avant-garde writers
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publishing early work by James Joyce ⓘ publishing modernist literature ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | individualist ⓘ |
| predecessor |
The Freewoman
ⓘ
linked to:
The Little Review
The New Freewoman ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor |
Ezra Pound
ⓘ
H.D. ⓘ James Joyce ⓘ Richard Aldington ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ Wyndham Lewis ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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excerpts from Ulysses ⓘ
linked to:
Ulysses (serialization)
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| successor | The Egoist Press ⓘ |
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 Egoist Description of subject: The Egoist was a British literary magazine edited by Dora Marsden and later Harriet Shaw Weaver, known for publishing modernist and avant-garde writers including early work by James Joyce.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Egoist