Dertigers
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Dertigers was an influential group of Afrikaans poets of the 1930s who modernized Afrikaans literature with more introspective, complex, and stylistically innovative poetry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dertigers canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T414226 — 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: Dertigers Context triple: [N. P. van Wyk Louw, movement, Dertigers]
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Quadragesima
Quadragesima is the traditional Latin name for the Christian liturgical season of Lent, a period of fasting, penance, and spiritual preparation before Easter.
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the Furious Fifties
The Furious Fifties are the notoriously stormy and wind-swept band of latitudes between 50° and 60° south in the Southern Ocean, famed for their powerful westerly gales and rough seas.
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C.
Dirty Thirties
The Dirty Thirties refers to the devastating period of severe dust storms and agricultural collapse in the 1930s that ravaged the Great Plains of the United States and Canada during the Great Depression.
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D.
Heeren XIX
Heeren XIX was the central governing council of the Dutch West India Company, composed of nineteen directors who oversaw its colonial and trading activities in the Atlantic world.
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the Screaming Sixties
The Screaming Sixties are the notoriously stormy and wind-lashed latitudes between 60° and 70° south, famed among sailors for their extreme seas and powerful westerly gales in the Southern Ocean.
- 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: Dertigers Target entity description: Dertigers was an influential group of Afrikaans poets of the 1930s who modernized Afrikaans literature with more introspective, complex, and stylistically innovative poetry.
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A.
Quadragesima
Quadragesima is the traditional Latin name for the Christian liturgical season of Lent, a period of fasting, penance, and spiritual preparation before Easter.
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B.
the Furious Fifties
The Furious Fifties are the notoriously stormy and wind-swept band of latitudes between 50° and 60° south in the Southern Ocean, famed for their powerful westerly gales and rough seas.
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C.
Dirty Thirties
The Dirty Thirties refers to the devastating period of severe dust storms and agricultural collapse in the 1930s that ravaged the Great Plains of the United States and Canada during the Great Depression.
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D.
Heeren XIX
Heeren XIX was the central governing council of the Dutch West India Company, composed of nineteen directors who oversaw its colonial and trading activities in the Atlantic world.
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E.
the Screaming Sixties
The Screaming Sixties are the notoriously stormy and wind-lashed latitudes between 60° and 70° south, famed among sailors for their extreme seas and powerful westerly gales in the Southern Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afrikaans literary group
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group of poets ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| activeIn | South African literary scene ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Afrikaans universities
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literary journals in Afrikaans ⓘ |
| characteristic |
break with earlier didactic style
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formal experimentation ⓘ introspective tone ⓘ psychological depth ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Afrikaner culture ⓘ |
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| field |
literature
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poetry ⓘ |
| focus |
existential questions
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individual experience ⓘ inner life of the poet ⓘ |
| genre | modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasMember |
A. G. Visser
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C. M. van den Heever ⓘ D. J. Opperman ⓘ Elisabeth Eybers ⓘ H. A. Fagan ⓘ N. P. van Wyk Louw ⓘ Uys Krige ⓘ W. E. G. Louw ⓘ |
| historicalRole | part of the professionalization of Afrikaans literature ⓘ |
| influenced |
Afrikaans literature
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later Afrikaans poets ⓘ |
| inspired | Sestigers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex poetic themes
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introspective poetry ⓘ modernizing Afrikaans literature ⓘ stylistic innovation ⓘ |
| language | Afrikaans ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
marked transition to modern Afrikaans poetry
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raised aesthetic standards in Afrikaans poetry ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
complex metaphors
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free verse experimentation ⓘ symbolic imagery ⓘ |
| medium | printed poetry collections ⓘ |
| movement | Afrikaans modernism ⓘ |
| opposedTo | nationalistic didactic poetry of earlier Afrikaans tradition ⓘ |
| precededBy | Tweede Beweging (Second Movement) of Afrikaans poetry ⓘ |
| region | Cape Province ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
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Referenced by (13)
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