Mary
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Mary is a 1927 psychological novel by Vladimir Nabokov that explores memory, exile, and lost love through the reflections of a Russian émigré in Berlin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13000509 — 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.
Target entity: Mary Context triple: [Mary (novel), hasTitle, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
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Mary
Mary of Lancaster was a 14th-century English noblewoman, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and a member of the influential House of Lancaster.
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Mary
Mary is the middle name of Joseph Plunkett, the Irish nationalist, poet, and 1916 Easter Rising leader.
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of American actress, comedian, and writer Lily Tomlin, known for her groundbreaking work in television, film, and theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mary Target entity description: Mary is a 1927 psychological novel by Vladimir Nabokov that explores memory, exile, and lost love through the reflections of a Russian émigré in Berlin.
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Mary
"Mary" is a 1949 novel by Polish-Jewish writer Sholem Asch that reimagines the life of Jesus through the perspective of his mother.
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Mary
Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
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Mary
Mary is a central character in W. H. Auden’s long poem "For the Time Being," which reimagines the Nativity story in a modern, philosophical context.
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Mary
Mary is the central protagonist of the play "The Memory of Water," around whom the story’s emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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psychological novel ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mashenka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Vladimir Nabokov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorLaterNationality | American ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Russian ⓘ |
| centralConflict | tension between past memories and present reality ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serialized ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Sovremennye Zapiski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist literature
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psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Mary (1976 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Alfyorov
NERFINISHED
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Klara NERFINISHED ⓘ Lev Glebovich Ganin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ Podtyagin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | Mary (English title) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
boarding house life
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photographs ⓘ trains ⓘ |
| length | short novel ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
flashback
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stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | Nabokov's first published novel ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lev Glebovich Ganin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Mashenka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
Ganin's recollections of his first love Mary
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life of Russian émigrés in a Berlin boarding house ⓘ |
| protagonistNationality | Russian ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| publisher | Sovremennye Zapiski (as serial) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| theme |
exile
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lost love ⓘ memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ émigré experience ⓘ |
| translatorToEnglish |
Dmitri Nabokov
NERFINISHED
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Michael Glenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: Mary Description of subject: Mary is a 1927 psychological novel by Vladimir Nabokov that explores memory, exile, and lost love through the reflections of a Russian émigré in Berlin.
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