The Waves
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The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Waves canonical | 10 |
| The Waves (1931 novel) | 2 |
| III. The Waves | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2577704 — 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 Waves Context triple: [Virginia Woolf, notableWork, The Waves]
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A.
Lotus-Eaters
The Lotus-Eaters are a mythical people in Greek mythology whose intoxicating lotus fruit causes those who eat it to forget their homes and lose all desire to return.
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B.
Intimations
Intimations is a collection of personal essays by Zadie Smith reflecting on life, society, and the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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C.
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James that intricately explores marriage, betrayal, and moral consciousness among wealthy Americans and Europeans.
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D.
La Vie seinte Audree
La Vie seinte Audree is a hagiographic poem in Anglo-Norman French recounting the life and miracles of Saint Audrey (Æthelthryth), traditionally attributed to the medieval poet Marie de France.
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E.
La Mer
La Mer is an impressionistic orchestral composition by Claude Debussy that evocatively depicts the shifting moods and colors of the sea.
- 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 Waves Target entity description: The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.
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A.
Lotus-Eaters
The Lotus-Eaters are a mythical people in Greek mythology whose intoxicating lotus fruit causes those who eat it to forget their homes and lose all desire to return.
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B.
Intimations
Intimations is a collection of personal essays by Zadie Smith reflecting on life, society, and the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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C.
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James that intricately explores marriage, betrayal, and moral consciousness among wealthy Americans and Europeans.
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D.
La Vie seinte Audree
La Vie seinte Audree is a hagiographic poem in Anglo-Norman French recounting the life and miracles of Saint Audrey (Æthelthryth), traditionally attributed to the medieval poet Marie de France.
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E.
La Mer
La Mer is an impressionistic orchestral composition by Claude Debussy that evocatively depicts the shifting moods and colors of the sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist novel
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novel ⓘ stream-of-consciousness fiction ⓘ |
| author | Virginia Woolf ⓘ |
| centralAbsentFigure | Percival ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Vita Sackville-West ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Years ⓘ |
| form |
lyric prose
ⓘ
novel in voices ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
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stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasPart | nine interludes describing the sea and the sun ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
European modernism
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linked to:
European avant-garde
James Joyce ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Bloomsbury Group ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bernard
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Jinny ⓘ Louis ⓘ Neville ⓘ Rhoda ⓘ Susan ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
interior monologue
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stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFor |
absence of conventional plot
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fusion of poetry and prose ⓘ radical narrative experimentation ⓘ |
| numberOfMainCharacters | 6 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Virginia Woolf bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Years ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hogarth Press ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| structure |
interspersed with third-person interludes
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series of soliloquies ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship
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identity ⓘ individual versus collective self ⓘ memory ⓘ mortality ⓘ subjective consciousness ⓘ time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Waves Description of subject: The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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