A Pale View of Hills
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A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
All labels observed (1)
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| A Pale View of Hills canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946397 — 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: A Pale View of Hills Context triple: [Kazuo Ishiguro, notableWork, A Pale View of Hills]
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Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
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Atonement
"Atonement" is an instrumental track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
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C.
Never Let Me Go
"Never Let Me Go" is a dramatic, atmospheric pop ballad by Florence and the Machine known for its haunting vocals and themes of surrender and emotional turmoil.
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The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
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The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is a 1993 British drama film, based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, about a devoted but emotionally repressed butler reflecting on duty, regret, and missed opportunities in pre- and post–World War II England.
- 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: A Pale View of Hills Target entity description: A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
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A.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
-
B.
Atonement
"Atonement" is an instrumental track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
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C.
Never Let Me Go
"Never Let Me Go" is a dramatic, atmospheric pop ballad by Florence and the Machine known for its haunting vocals and themes of surrender and emotional turmoil.
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D.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
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E.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is a 1993 British drama film, based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, about a devoted but emotionally repressed butler reflecting on duty, regret, and missed opportunities in pre- and post–World War II England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Kazuo Ishiguro ⓘ |
| awarded | Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cultural transition
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displacement ⓘ guilt ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ mother-daughter relationships ⓘ postwar Japanese identity ⓘ suicide ⓘ unreliable memory ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
female subjectivity
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the psychological impact of war ⓘ the tension between past and present ⓘ the unreliability of recollection ⓘ |
| followedBy | An Artist of the Floating World ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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postwar fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jiro
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Keiko ⓘ Mariko ⓘ Niki ⓘ Ogata-san ⓘ Sachiko ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780571117246 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
ambiguous events
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ghostly or haunting atmosphere ⓘ shifting identities ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 183 ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
introspective
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understated prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Etsuko ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early development of themes found in Ishiguro’s later work
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subtle use of an unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
England
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Nagasaki ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post-World War II era ⓘ |
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