The Great Divorce
E489982
The Great Divorce is a Christian allegorical novella by C. S. Lewis that imagines a bus journey from hell to heaven to explore themes of choice, salvation, and the nature of the afterlife.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Great Divorce canonical | 2 |
| The Great Divorce and Other Stories | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5066211 — 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: The Great Divorce Context triple: [C. S. Lewis, notableWork, The Great Divorce]
-
A.
The Great Beyond
The Great Beyond is the metaphysical afterlife realm in Pixar's animated film "Soul," representing what lies beyond earthly existence.
-
B.
New Heaven and New Earth
New Heaven and New Earth is a biblical eschatological concept describing the renewed, perfected creation that God will establish at the end of time following Christ’s return.
-
C.
Gates of Eden
"Gates of Eden" is a surreal, poetic song by Bob Dylan that explores themes of illusion, truth, and spiritual searching.
-
D.
On the Transmigration of Souls
On the Transmigration of Souls is a Pulitzer Prize–winning commemorative work for orchestra, chorus, and prerecorded sounds by John Adams, written to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
-
E.
World Without End
World Without End is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its story of astronauts who time-travel to a post-apocalyptic future Earth.
- 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: The Great Divorce Target entity description: The Great Divorce is a Christian allegorical novella by C. S. Lewis that imagines a bus journey from hell to heaven to explore themes of choice, salvation, and the nature of the afterlife.
-
A.
The Great Beyond
The Great Beyond is the metaphysical afterlife realm in Pixar's animated film "Soul," representing what lies beyond earthly existence.
-
B.
New Heaven and New Earth
New Heaven and New Earth is a biblical eschatological concept describing the renewed, perfected creation that God will establish at the end of time following Christ’s return.
-
C.
Gates of Eden
"Gates of Eden" is a surreal, poetic song by Bob Dylan that explores themes of illusion, truth, and spiritual searching.
-
D.
On the Transmigration of Souls
On the Transmigration of Souls is a Pulitzer Prize–winning commemorative work for orchestra, chorus, and prerecorded sounds by John Adams, written to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
-
E.
World Without End
World Without End is a historical novel by Ken Follett that continues the story begun in The Pillars of the Earth, following the lives of residents in the medieval town of Kingsbridge during the 14th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian allegory
ⓘ
novella ⓘ theological fiction ⓘ |
| adaptation |
radio drama
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| author | C. S. Lewis ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
choice
ⓘ
damnation ⓘ free will ⓘ nature of the afterlife ⓘ rejection of hell as equal opposite of heaven ⓘ salvation ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
bus as vehicle of choice
ⓘ
growth and shrinking of souls ⓘ solid people and ghosts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | considered a classic of Christian apologetic fiction ⓘ |
| doctrinalStance |
affirms possibility of final rejection of God
ⓘ
rejects universalism ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
George MacDonald
ⓘ
narrator ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterRole | George MacDonald as spiritual guide ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian literature
ⓘ
allegorical fiction ⓘ fantasy literature ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-06-065295-1 ⓘ |
| includedInCollection |
The Great Divorce and Other Stories
ⓘ
linked to:
The Great Divorce
|
| inspiredBy |
The Divine Comedy
ⓘ
linked to:
Divine Comedy
William Blake ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| narrativeFrame | presented as a dream experienced by the narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Geoffrey Bles ⓘ |
| philosophicalPosition |
emphasis on human choice in salvation
ⓘ
hell depicted as self-chosen separation from God ⓘ |
| plotDevice | bus journey from hell to heaven ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Mere Christianity
ⓘ
The Problem of Pain ⓘ
linked to:
the problem of pain
The Screwtape Letters ⓘ |
| setting |
afterlife
ⓘ
grey town ⓘ heavenly country ⓘ |
| structure | dream vision ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theologicalEmphasis | imaginative exploration of heaven and hell ⓘ |
| theologicalTradition |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| titleAlludesTo | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Great Divorce Description of subject: The Great Divorce is a Christian allegorical novella by C. S. Lewis that imagines a bus journey from hell to heaven to explore themes of choice, salvation, and the nature of the afterlife.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.