The Moor's Last Sigh
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The Moor's Last Sigh is a 1995 novel by Salman Rushdie that blends family saga, magical realism, and political commentary to trace the turbulent history of a Jewish-Catholic spice-trading family in India.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Moor’s Last Sigh | 9 |
| The Moor's Last Sigh canonical | 5 |
| The Moor's Last Sigh universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234269 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Moor's Last Sigh Context triple: [Salman Rushdie, notableWork, The Moor's Last Sigh]
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Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is a psychologically rich novel by Margaret Atwood that explores memory, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood friendships and bullying on an adult woman artist.
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores African American identity, family history, and the search for personal freedom through the life of its protagonist, Milkman Dead.
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E.
The Warden
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Moor's Last Sigh Target entity description: The Moor's Last Sigh is a 1995 novel by Salman Rushdie that blends family saga, magical realism, and political commentary to trace the turbulent history of a Jewish-Catholic spice-trading family in India.
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A.
Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.
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B.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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C.
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is a psychologically rich novel by Margaret Atwood that explores memory, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood friendships and bullying on an adult woman artist.
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D.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores African American identity, family history, and the search for personal freedom through the life of its protagonist, Milkman Dead.
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E.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Salman Rushdie ⓘ |
| award | Booker Prize shortlist ⓘ |
| character |
Abraham Zogoiby
ⓘ
Aurora Zogoiby ⓘ Epifania da Gama ⓘ Francisco da Gama ⓘ Vasco Miranda ⓘ |
| containsElement |
historical allusions
ⓘ
magic realist episodes ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| featuresCommunity |
Catholic community in India
ⓘ
Jewish community in Cochin ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Ground Beneath Her Feet ⓘ |
| genre |
family saga
ⓘ
magical realism ⓘ political fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | radio dramatization ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Indian politics
ⓘ
art and representation ⓘ communal violence ⓘ exile ⓘ family history ⓘ hybridity ⓘ religious identity ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bombay underworld
ⓘ
Hindu-Muslim communal tensions ⓘ Indian history ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780224036706 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Moraes Zogoiby ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrator | Moraes Zogoiby ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | 434 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Haroun and the Sea of Stories ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | accelerated aging ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| setIn |
Mumbai
ⓘ
surface form:
Bombay
Cochin ⓘ India ⓘ |
| timeSpan | four generations ⓘ |
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Subject: The Moor's Last Sigh Description of subject: The Moor's Last Sigh is a 1995 novel by Salman Rushdie that blends family saga, magical realism, and political commentary to trace the turbulent history of a Jewish-Catholic spice-trading family in India.
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