Ladies Almanack
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Ladies Almanack is a 1928 modernist, satirical novel by Djuna Barnes that portrays a thinly veiled, lesbian-centered literary circle in Paris through an ornate, mock-Elizabethan style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ladies Almanack canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288138 — 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: Ladies Almanack Context triple: [Djuna Barnes, notableWork, Ladies Almanack]
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A.
The Daily Universal Register
The Daily Universal Register was the original title of the British newspaper that later became known as The Times of London.
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B.
The Tea-Table Miscellany
The Tea-Table Miscellany is an influential early 18th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads that helped popularize vernacular Scots literature.
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C.
Brilliant Lady
Brilliant Lady is a modern cruise ship operated by Virgin Voyages, designed to offer an adults-only, boutique-style sailing experience.
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D.
The Lady
The Lady is the mysterious, sharpshooting female gunslinger who enters a deadly quick-draw tournament to confront her past in the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
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E.
Bentley's Miscellany
Bentley's Miscellany was a 19th-century British literary magazine known for publishing fiction, essays, and early works by prominent Victorian authors.
- 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: Ladies Almanack Target entity description: Ladies Almanack is a 1928 modernist, satirical novel by Djuna Barnes that portrays a thinly veiled, lesbian-centered literary circle in Paris through an ornate, mock-Elizabethan style.
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A.
The Daily Universal Register
The Daily Universal Register was the original title of the British newspaper that later became known as The Times of London.
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B.
The Tea-Table Miscellany
The Tea-Table Miscellany is an influential early 18th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads that helped popularize vernacular Scots literature.
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C.
Brilliant Lady
Brilliant Lady is a modern cruise ship operated by Virgin Voyages, designed to offer an adults-only, boutique-style sailing experience.
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D.
The Lady
The Lady is the mysterious, sharpshooting female gunslinger who enters a deadly quick-draw tournament to confront her past in the Western film "The Quick and the Dead."
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E.
Bentley's Miscellany
Bentley's Miscellany was a 19th-century British literary magazine known for publishing fiction, essays, and early works by prominent Victorian authors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Djuna Barnes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstPublicationFormat | limited edition ⓘ |
| genre |
lesbian literature
ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
Anglophone expatriate community in Paris
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Parisian avant-garde ⓘ |
| hasFictionalFormOf |
Natalie Clifford Barney
ⓘ
members of Barney’s Paris salon ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
queer modernism
ⓘ
roman à clef ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
expatriate life
ⓘ
female friendship ⓘ gender and sexuality ⓘ lesbian relationships ⓘ literary salons ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | lesbian-centered literary circle ⓘ |
| notableFor |
archaic, pseudo-Elizabethan language
ⓘ
coded representation of lesbian culture ⓘ roman à clef elements ⓘ |
| originalAudience | Paris expatriate literary circle ⓘ |
| portrays |
lesbian literary community in Paris
ⓘ
thinly veiled versions of real people ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| targetedCommunity | lesbian readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1920s ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
mock-Elizabethan
ⓘ
ornate ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ladies Almanack Description of subject: Ladies Almanack is a 1928 modernist, satirical novel by Djuna Barnes that portrays a thinly veiled, lesbian-centered literary circle in Paris through an ornate, mock-Elizabethan style.
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