Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

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play stage work

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.

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Label	Occurrences
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone canonical	24
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	5
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 Broadway revival)	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 revival)	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Broadway revival, 2009)	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone – 1910s	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, later acts	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1778953 — 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: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Context triple: [Andre Holland, notableWork, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone]

A. King Hedley II
King Hedley II is a drama by August Wilson that forms part of his Pittsburgh Cycle, exploring themes of legacy, violence, and redemption in an African American community in the 1980s.
B. My Boy Willie
"My Boy Willie" is a traditional military march closely associated with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.
C. A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a landmark 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry that portrays the struggles of a Black family in Chicago as they confront racism, housing discrimination, and conflicting dreams for a better life.
D. Suddenly, Last Summer
"Suddenly, Last Summer" is a 1959 psychological drama film, based on Tennessee Williams' play, that explores themes of mental illness, repression, and family secrets.
E. Birth of a Salesman
"Birth of a Salesman" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse set in his Blandings Castle universe.
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: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Target entity description: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.

A. King Hedley II
King Hedley II is a drama by August Wilson that forms part of his Pittsburgh Cycle, exploring themes of legacy, violence, and redemption in an African American community in the 1980s.
B. My Boy Willie
"My Boy Willie" is a traditional military march closely associated with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.
C. A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a landmark 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry that portrays the struggles of a Black family in Chicago as they confront racism, housing discrimination, and conflicting dreams for a better life.
D. Suddenly, Last Summer
"Suddenly, Last Summer" is a 1959 psychological drama film, based on Tennessee Williams' play, that explores themes of mental illness, repression, and family secrets.
E. Birth of a Salesman
"Birth of a Salesman" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse set in his Blandings Castle universe.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	play ⓘ stage work ⓘ
author	August Wilson ⓘ
chronologicalPositionInPittsburghCycle	set in the 1910s ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
creator	August Wilson ⓘ
depicts	effects of forced labor on African Americans ⓘ religious and spiritual traditions of African Americans ⓘ search for community ⓘ
firstPerformanceYear	1984 ⓘ
genre	African-American theatre ⓘ drama ⓘ
hasCharacter	Bertha Holly ⓘ Bynum Walker ⓘ Herald Loomis ⓘ Jeremy Furlow ⓘ Martha Loomis ⓘ Mattie Campbell ⓘ Molly Cunningham ⓘ Reuben Scott ⓘ Rutherford Selig ⓘ Seth Holly ⓘ Zonia Loomis ⓘ
hasPart	Act I ⓘ Act II ⓘ
hasTheme	displacement ⓘ freedom ⓘ memory and trauma ⓘ reconnection with African heritage ⓘ
hasTitleCharacterReference	Joe Turner ⓘ
inNarrativeRefersTo	Joe Turner’s chain gangs ⓘ
inspiredBy	experiences of African Americans during Jim Crow era ⓘ
locationOfFictionalEvent	Pittsburgh boardinghouse ⓘ
mainSubject	African American history ⓘ African American identity ⓘ Great Migration ⓘ linked to: Great Migration of African Americans out of the region spiritual searching ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
partOf	20th-century American plays ⓘ African-American literature ⓘ Pittsburgh Cycle ⓘ
periodDepicted	early 20th century ⓘ
publicationYear	1984 ⓘ
series	Century Cycle ⓘ
settingPlace	Pennsylvania ⓘ Pittsburgh ⓘ linked to: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
settingTime	1911 ⓘ
timeInNarrativeFollows	events of slavery and Reconstruction ⓘ

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August Wilson → notableWork → Joe Turner's Come and Gone ⓘ

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Brian MacDevitt → notableWork → Joe Turner's Come and Gone ⓘ

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subject linked to: Azula Carmen Wilson

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Referenced by (34)

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