How It Is
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How It Is is a late experimental novel by Samuel Beckett that explores fragmented consciousness through disjointed, minimalist prose and a mud-bound narrator’s monologue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| How It Is canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995597 — 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: How It Is Context triple: [Samuel Beckett, notableWork, How It Is]
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A.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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B.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
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C.
It's Not Right but It's Okay
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a hit R&B song by Whitney Houston, known for its empowering lyrics about leaving an unfaithful partner and its influential late-1990s production and remixes.
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D.
The What D'Ye Call It
The What D'Ye Call It is a satirical one-act play by English poet and dramatist John Gay, known for parodying the conventions of contemporary tragedy and theatre.
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E.
On Our Own
On Our Own is a 1989 R&B/new jack swing single by Bobby Brown, best known as the theme song for the film "Ghostbusters II."
- 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: How It Is Target entity description: How It Is is a late experimental novel by Samuel Beckett that explores fragmented consciousness through disjointed, minimalist prose and a mud-bound narrator’s monologue.
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A.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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B.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
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C.
It's Not Right but It's Okay
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a hit R&B song by Whitney Houston, known for its empowering lyrics about leaving an unfaithful partner and its influential late-1990s production and remixes.
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D.
The What D'Ye Call It
The What D'Ye Call It is a satirical one-act play by English poet and dramatist John Gay, known for parodying the conventions of contemporary tragedy and theatre.
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E.
On Our Own
On Our Own is a 1989 R&B/new jack swing single by Bobby Brown, best known as the theme song for the film "Ghostbusters II."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
radio adaptation
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stage adaptation ⓘ |
| author | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| criticalReception | regarded as one of Beckett’s most challenging works ⓘ |
| followedBy | Texts for Nothing ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist literature
ⓘ
postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Pim ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English translation by Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Samuel Beckett’s earlier trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
avant-garde
ⓘ
modernism ⓘ postmodernism ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| motif |
darkness
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mud ⓘ voice and voicelessness ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person monologue ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
fragmented prose
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minimalist prose ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
absence of conventional punctuation
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elliptical syntax ⓘ repetitive phrasing ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Comment c’est ⓘ |
| partOf | Samuel Beckett’s late prose ⓘ |
| philosophicalAspect | existential questioning of self and other ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1961 ⓘ |
| publisher | Les Éditions de Minuit ⓘ |
| setting | indeterminate mud-bound landscape ⓘ |
| structure |
three-part division
ⓘ
unpunctuated blocks of text ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
human existence in extremis
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inner monologue of a crawling figure in mud ⓘ |
| theme |
communication and its breakdown
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fragmented consciousness ⓘ isolation ⓘ memory and its unreliability ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
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Instruction
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