Baumgartner's Bombay
E441398
Baumgartner's Bombay is a novel by Anita Desai that explores the life of a German Jewish refugee in Bombay, delving into themes of exile, identity, and alienation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baumgartner's Bombay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4462756 — 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: Baumgartner's Bombay Context triple: [Anita Desai, notableWork, Baumgartner's Bombay]
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A.
Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison cell in Fort William where a large number of British prisoners were allegedly confined overnight in 1756, resulting in many deaths and becoming a notorious symbol of colonial-era atrocity.
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B.
The Hump
The Hump was the perilous World War II Allied airlift route over the eastern Himalayas used to transport vital supplies from India to China after the Japanese cut off the Burma Road.
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C.
Shantaram
Shantaram is a novel by Gregory David Roberts that follows an Australian fugitive who builds a new life in the underworld of Bombay, blending adventure, crime, and spiritual exploration.
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D.
Short Calcutta
The Short Calcutta was a British three-engined flying boat airliner of the late 1920s, used primarily on Imperial Airways’ Mediterranean and Empire routes.
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E.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is a 2001 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s stark, country-tinged songwriting and melancholic, literate lyrics.
- 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: Baumgartner's Bombay Target entity description: Baumgartner's Bombay is a novel by Anita Desai that explores the life of a German Jewish refugee in Bombay, delving into themes of exile, identity, and alienation.
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A.
Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison cell in Fort William where a large number of British prisoners were allegedly confined overnight in 1756, resulting in many deaths and becoming a notorious symbol of colonial-era atrocity.
-
B.
The Hump
The Hump was the perilous World War II Allied airlift route over the eastern Himalayas used to transport vital supplies from India to China after the Japanese cut off the Burma Road.
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C.
Shantaram
Shantaram is a novel by Gregory David Roberts that follows an Australian fugitive who builds a new life in the underworld of Bombay, blending adventure, crime, and spiritual exploration.
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D.
Short Calcutta
The Short Calcutta was a British three-engined flying boat airliner of the late 1920s, used primarily on Imperial Airways’ Mediterranean and Empire routes.
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E.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is a 2001 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s stark, country-tinged songwriting and melancholic, literate lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| alternateName | Baumgartner’s Bombay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Anita Desai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| explores |
cultural dislocation
ⓘ
the impact of historical trauma on individuals ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Hugo Baumgartner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasSettingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasSubject | German Jewish refugee in India ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hugo Baumgartner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| protagonistNationality | German ⓘ |
| setInCity | Mumbai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Bombay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
cross-cultural encounter ⓘ displacement ⓘ exile ⓘ identity ⓘ loneliness ⓘ memory ⓘ refugee experience ⓘ |
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