Mr Norris Changes Trains
E244022
Mr Norris Changes Trains is a 1935 novel by Christopher Isherwood set in pre-war Berlin, following the narrator’s entanglement with the charming yet dubious Mr. Norris amid the city’s rising political tensions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr Norris Changes Trains canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2218085 — 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: Mr Norris Changes Trains Context triple: [Christopher Isherwood, notableWork, Mr Norris Changes Trains]
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A.
Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British period musical drama film directed by Mike Leigh that explores the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Mikado.
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B.
Last Train to Paris
Last Train to Paris is a 2010 concept album by Diddy – Dirty Money that blends hip hop, R&B, and electronic dance music into a narrative about love and heartbreak.
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C.
Mr. Plod
Mr. Plod is the bumbling village policeman character from Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories, known for trying to keep order in Toyland.
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D.
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" is a lighthearted romantic show tune from the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Oklahoma!* that charmingly describes a fanciful horse-drawn carriage ride.
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E.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television series about a group of working-class builders from England seeking employment abroad, noted for its blend of humor and social commentary.
- 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: Mr Norris Changes Trains Target entity description: Mr Norris Changes Trains is a 1935 novel by Christopher Isherwood set in pre-war Berlin, following the narrator’s entanglement with the charming yet dubious Mr. Norris amid the city’s rising political tensions.
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A.
Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British period musical drama film directed by Mike Leigh that explores the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Mikado.
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B.
Last Train to Paris
Last Train to Paris is a 2010 concept album by Diddy – Dirty Money that blends hip hop, R&B, and electronic dance music into a narrative about love and heartbreak.
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C.
Mr. Plod
Mr. Plod is the bumbling village policeman character from Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories, known for trying to keep order in Toyland.
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D.
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" is a lighthearted romantic show tune from the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Oklahoma!* that charmingly describes a fanciful horse-drawn carriage ride.
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E.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television series about a group of working-class builders from England seeking employment abroad, noted for its blend of humor and social commentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Mr Norris Changes Trains Description of subject: Mr Norris Changes Trains is a 1935 novel by Christopher Isherwood set in pre-war Berlin, following the narrator’s entanglement with the charming yet dubious Mr. Norris amid the city’s rising political tensions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.