New Journalism
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New Journalism is a literary style of news writing that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, blending factual reporting with narrative techniques and subjective perspectives more typical of fiction.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Journalism canonical | 66 |
| New Journalism movement | 3 |
| Gonzo journalism | 2 |
| new journalism | 2 |
| New Journalism (precursor) | 1 |
| gonzo journalism | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307801 — 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: New Journalism Context triple: [Truman Capote, influenced, New Journalism]
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A.
Authors in the News
Authors in the News was a radio program that featured interviews and discussions with contemporary writers about their works and current literary topics.
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B.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is a prestigious American journalism award honoring outstanding, narrative-driven feature stories that demonstrate exceptional reporting and literary merit.
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C.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing is a prestigious American journalism award honoring outstanding editorial commentary and argumentation in newspapers, magazines, and digital news outlets.
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D.
Social realism
Social realism is an artistic and literary movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and social conditions, often highlighting the struggles and injustices faced by working-class and marginalized people.
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E.
New Statesman
New Statesman is a long-running British political and cultural magazine known for its left-leaning commentary and analysis.
- 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: New Journalism Target entity description: New Journalism is a literary style of news writing that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, blending factual reporting with narrative techniques and subjective perspectives more typical of fiction.
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A.
Authors in the News
Authors in the News was a radio program that featured interviews and discussions with contemporary writers about their works and current literary topics.
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B.
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is a prestigious American journalism award honoring outstanding, narrative-driven feature stories that demonstrate exceptional reporting and literary merit.
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C.
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing is a prestigious American journalism award honoring outstanding editorial commentary and argumentation in newspapers, magazines, and digital news outlets.
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D.
Social realism
Social realism is an artistic and literary movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and social conditions, often highlighting the struggles and injustices faced by working-class and marginalized people.
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E.
New Statesman
New Statesman is a long-running British political and cultural magazine known for its left-leaning commentary and analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
journalism movement
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journalistic style ⓘ literary journalism ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
convey experiential truth
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engage readers emotionally ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gay Talese
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Hunter S. Thompson ⓘ Joan Didion ⓘ Norman Mailer ⓘ Tom Wolfe ⓘ Truman Capote ⓘ |
| combinesWith |
fiction techniques
ⓘ
traditional reporting ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
inverted pyramid news writing
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objective reporting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticizedFor |
blurring fact and fiction
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potential inaccuracy ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| emergedInPeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cultural context
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individual experience ⓘ social context ⓘ subjective reality ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
literary new journalism
ⓘ
new journalism ⓘ
linked to:
New Journalism
|
| hasKeyWork |
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
ⓘ
In Cold Blood ⓘ Slouching Towards Bethlehem ⓘ The Armies of the Night ⓘ
linked to:
Armies of the Night
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
1960s counterculture
ⓘ
Vietnam War era ⓘ civil rights movement era ⓘ |
| influenced |
creative nonfiction
ⓘ
gonzo journalism ⓘ literary nonfiction ⓘ magazine journalism ⓘ narrative journalism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
modernist fiction
ⓘ
realist fiction ⓘ traditional feature writing ⓘ |
| popularizedIn |
Esquire
ⓘ
linked to:
Esquire magazine
New York magazine ⓘ
linked to:
New York Magazine
The New Yorker ⓘ magazines ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
extended dialogue
ⓘ
first-person point of view ⓘ immersion reporting ⓘ interior monologue ⓘ narrative storytelling ⓘ novelistic description ⓘ scene-by-scene construction ⓘ status details ⓘ stream-of-consciousness elements ⓘ subjective perspective ⓘ symbolic details ⓘ third-person point of view ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: New Journalism Description of subject: New Journalism is a literary style of news writing that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, blending factual reporting with narrative techniques and subjective perspectives more typical of fiction.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Thomas