In Search of Love and Beauty
E429998
In Search of Love and Beauty is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that explores the intertwined lives and emotional entanglements of European émigrés and their descendants in New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| In Search of Love and Beauty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4311140 — 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: In Search of Love and Beauty Context triple: [Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, notableWork, In Search of Love and Beauty]
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A.
Of Beauty
"Of Beauty" is a philosophical essay by Francis Bacon that reflects on the nature, perception, and value of physical beauty in human life.
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B.
In Praise of Love
In Praise of Love is a 2001 French film by Jean-Luc Godard that meditates on memory, history, and the nature of love through an experimental, two-part visual structure.
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C.
the Form of Beauty
The Form of Beauty is Plato’s eternal, unchanging, and perfect archetype of beauty itself, which all beautiful things imperfectly imitate and which the soul ultimately seeks to contemplate.
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D.
Two Lovers
Two Lovers is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by James Gray that follows a troubled man torn between a stable relationship and a passionate but complicated affair.
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E.
Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is a renowned early 16th-century oil painting by the Venetian master Titian, celebrated for its enigmatic allegory contrasting earthly and divine love.
- 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: In Search of Love and Beauty Target entity description: In Search of Love and Beauty is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that explores the intertwined lives and emotional entanglements of European émigrés and their descendants in New York.
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A.
Of Beauty
"Of Beauty" is a philosophical essay by Francis Bacon that reflects on the nature, perception, and value of physical beauty in human life.
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B.
In Praise of Love
In Praise of Love is a 2001 French film by Jean-Luc Godard that meditates on memory, history, and the nature of love through an experimental, two-part visual structure.
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C.
the Form of Beauty
The Form of Beauty is Plato’s eternal, unchanging, and perfect archetype of beauty itself, which all beautiful things imperfectly imitate and which the soul ultimately seeks to contemplate.
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D.
Two Lovers
Two Lovers is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by James Gray that follows a troubled man torn between a stable relationship and a passionate but complicated affair.
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E.
Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is a renowned early 16th-century oil painting by the Venetian master Titian, celebrated for its enigmatic allegory contrasting earthly and divine love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
family saga
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literary fiction ⓘ novel of manners ⓘ |
| hasAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
European émigrés
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assimilation ⓘ emotional entanglements ⓘ family relationships ⓘ generational conflict ⓘ identity ⓘ postwar immigrant life ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ émigré experience ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
art and aesthetics
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class and status ⓘ cultural dislocation ⓘ displacement ⓘ emotional dependency ⓘ intergenerational tension ⓘ marriage and infidelity ⓘ memory ⓘ moral compromise ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ search for beauty ⓘ search for love ⓘ self-deception ⓘ social ambition ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
ironic
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psychological realism ⓘ social observation ⓘ |
| mainSetting | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of complex emotional relationships
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portrayal of European émigré community in New York ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pantheon Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: In Search of Love and Beauty Description of subject: In Search of Love and Beauty is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that explores the intertwined lives and emotional entanglements of European émigrés and their descendants in New York.
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