Mark Renton
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Mark Renton is a young, heroin-addicted antihero from Edinburgh whose cynical wit and struggle to escape his self-destructive lifestyle define Irvine Welsh’s novel "Trainspotting."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Renton canonical | 10 |
| Mr Renton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2233352 — 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: Mark Renton Context triple: [Trainspotting (novel), protagonist, Mark Renton]
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A.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
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C.
Benjamin d’Urban
Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
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D.
Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is a historical adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in 15th-century France and following a young Scottish archer entangled in the political intrigues of Louis XI and Charles the Bold.
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E.
Ivan Vaughan
Ivan Vaughan was an English schoolmate of John Lennon and Paul McCartney who famously introduced the two future Beatles to each other.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mark Renton Target entity description: Mark Renton is a young, heroin-addicted antihero from Edinburgh whose cynical wit and struggle to escape his self-destructive lifestyle define Irvine Welsh’s novel "Trainspotting."
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A.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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B.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
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C.
Benjamin d’Urban
Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
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D.
Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is a historical adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in 15th-century France and following a young Scottish archer entangled in the political intrigues of Louis XI and Charles the Bold.
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E.
Ivan Vaughan
Ivan Vaughan was an English schoolmate of John Lennon and Paul McCartney who famously introduced the two future Beatles to each other.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium |
cinema
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| addiction | heroin ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
T2 Trainspotting
ⓘ
surface form:
film T2 Trainspotting
Trainspotting (1996 film) ⓘ
surface form:
film Trainspotting
novel Dead Men’s Trousers ⓘ novel Porno ⓘ Trainspotting (novel) ⓘ
surface form:
novel Trainspotting
short story collection The Acid House (cameo in shared universe) ⓘ |
| basedIn | Leith ⓘ |
| characterRole | antihero ⓘ |
| creator | Irvine Welsh ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Dawn (niece)
ⓘ
Mark Renton self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mr Renton
Mrs Renton ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Trainspotting (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Trainspotting
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAssociate | Francis Begbie ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Daniel "Spud" Murphy
ⓘ
surface form:
Daniel Spud Murphy
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson ⓘ
surface form:
Simon Sick Boy Williamson
|
| hasSibling | Billy Renton ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
contemporary fiction
ⓘ
urban fiction ⓘ |
| literarySeries |
Trainspotting (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Trainspotting series
|
| narrativeFunction | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Choose life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Trainspotting (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Trainspotting
|
| occupation | unemployed ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
intelligent ⓘ self-aware ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ewan McGregor ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship | Diane Coulston ⓘ |
| setting |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Leith ⓘ
surface form:
Leith, Edinburgh
|
| strugglesWith |
addiction recovery
ⓘ
alienation ⓘ nihilism ⓘ |
| theme |
drug addiction
ⓘ
escape ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ working-class life in Edinburgh ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
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Subject: Mark Renton Description of subject: Mark Renton is a young, heroin-addicted antihero from Edinburgh whose cynical wit and struggle to escape his self-destructive lifestyle define Irvine Welsh’s novel "Trainspotting."
Referenced by (11)
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