The Depressed Person
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"The Depressed Person" is a short story by David Foster Wallace that offers an intense, darkly comic, and psychologically detailed portrait of a woman consumed by self-consciousness and clinical depression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Depressed Person canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12886018 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Depressed Person Context triple: [Consider the Lobster, hasPart, The Depressed Person]
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A.
The Hypochondriac
The Hypochondriac is the standard English title of Molière’s classic 1673 comedic play satirizing medical pretension and obsessive fear of illness.
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B.
The Troubled Man
The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
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C.
How Everyone Became Depressed
"How Everyone Became Depressed" is a historical and critical study of modern psychiatry that examines how depression became a widespread diagnosis and cultural condition in the contemporary West.
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D.
Homo Demens
Homo Demens is a fictional anarchist terrorist organization in the video game "Ghostrunner," led by Higgs Monaghan and known for its violent opposition to the ruling authorities.
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E.
Troubled Child
Troubled Child is a psychological horror film that explores the dark and unsettling experiences of a disturbed young protagonist.
- 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 Depressed Person Target entity description: "The Depressed Person" is a short story by David Foster Wallace that offers an intense, darkly comic, and psychologically detailed portrait of a woman consumed by self-consciousness and clinical depression.
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A.
The Hypochondriac
The Hypochondriac is the standard English title of Molière’s classic 1673 comedic play satirizing medical pretension and obsessive fear of illness.
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B.
The Troubled Man
The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
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C.
How Everyone Became Depressed
"How Everyone Became Depressed" is a historical and critical study of modern psychiatry that examines how depression became a widespread diagnosis and cultural condition in the contemporary West.
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D.
Homo Demens
Homo Demens is a fictional anarchist terrorist organization in the video game "Ghostrunner," led by Higgs Monaghan and known for its violent opposition to the ruling authorities.
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E.
Troubled Child
Troubled Child is a psychological horror film that explores the dark and unsettling experiences of a disturbed young protagonist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | David Foster Wallace ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | David Foster Wallace ⓘ |
| collectionType | short story collection ⓘ |
| copyrightHolder |
David Foster Wallace estate
ⓘ
linked to:
David Foster Wallace
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstPublishedIn | Harper's Magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasLength | short fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | an unnamed woman ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
interior monologue
ⓘ
third-person limited ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of depressive cognition
ⓘ
exploration of self-consciousness ⓘ use of footnotes ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine publication ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary United States ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
emotional pain
ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ self-absorption ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
clinical depression
ⓘ
interpersonal relationships ⓘ narcissism ⓘ psychological suffering ⓘ self-consciousness ⓘ therapy and psychotherapy ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
ⓘ
intense ⓘ psychologically detailed ⓘ |
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