Tales from Firozsha Baag

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book short story collection

Tales from Firozsha Baag is a collection of interconnected short stories by Rohinton Mistry that portrays the lives of residents in a Parsi apartment complex in Bombay with humor and poignancy.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tales from Firozsha Baag canonical	2
Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag	1
The Ghost of Firozsha Baag	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7888105 — 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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Target entity: Tales from Firozsha Baag
Context triple: [Rohinton Mistry, notableWork, Tales from Firozsha Baag]

A. Phool Bagh
Phool Bagh is a historic royal garden complex in Orchha, India, known for its ornate pavilions, fountains, and Mughal-influenced landscaping.
B. Salim Singh Ki Haveli
Salim Singh Ki Haveli is an ornately carved historic mansion in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, famed for its distinctive architecture and intricate stonework.
C. Begums of Bhopal
The Begums of Bhopal were a line of powerful female rulers who governed the princely state of Bhopal in central India during the 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for their progressive reforms and patronage of education and infrastructure.
D. Safed Haathi
Safed Haathi is an Indian children's adventure film, best known for its heartwarming story about a boy's bond with a white elephant and its direction by acclaimed filmmaker Tapan Sinha.
E. Kaagaz Ke Phool
Kaagaz Ke Phool is a 1959 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Guru Dutt, celebrated for its pioneering use of cinematography and its tragic, semi-autobiographical portrayal of a filmmaker’s downfall.
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: Tales from Firozsha Baag
Target entity description: Tales from Firozsha Baag is a collection of interconnected short stories by Rohinton Mistry that portrays the lives of residents in a Parsi apartment complex in Bombay with humor and poignancy.

A. Phool Bagh
Phool Bagh is a historic royal garden complex in Orchha, India, known for its ornate pavilions, fountains, and Mughal-influenced landscaping.
B. Salim Singh Ki Haveli
Salim Singh Ki Haveli is an ornately carved historic mansion in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, famed for its distinctive architecture and intricate stonework.
C. Begums of Bhopal
The Begums of Bhopal were a line of powerful female rulers who governed the princely state of Bhopal in central India during the 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for their progressive reforms and patronage of education and infrastructure.
D. Safed Haathi
Safed Haathi is an Indian children's adventure film, best known for its heartwarming story about a boy's bond with a white elephant and its direction by acclaimed filmmaker Tapan Sinha.
E. Kaagaz Ke Phool
Kaagaz Ke Phool is a 1959 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Guru Dutt, celebrated for its pioneering use of cinematography and its tragic, semi-autobiographical portrayal of a filmmaker’s downfall.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ short story collection ⓘ
alsoPublishedAs	Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag ⓘ linked to: Tales from Firozsha Baag
author	Rohinton Mistry ⓘ
containsStory	Auspicious Occasion ⓘ Condolence Visit ⓘ Exercisers ⓘ Lend Me Your Light ⓘ Of White Hairs and Cricket ⓘ One Sunday ⓘ Squatter ⓘ Swimming Lessons ⓘ The Collectors ⓘ The Ghost of Firozsha Baag ⓘ linked to: Tales from Firozsha Baag The Paying Guests ⓘ
contributedTo	establishing Rohinton Mistry’s reputation as a writer ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Canada ⓘ
criticalReception	widely acclaimed ⓘ
depicts	daily life of middle-class Parsis ⓘ
depictsReligion	Zoroastrianism ⓘ
firstPublicationYear	1987 ⓘ
genre	literary fiction ⓘ short stories ⓘ
hasProtagonistType	Parsi residents of Firozsha Baag ⓘ
literaryMovement	postcolonial literature ⓘ
literaryStyle	realism ⓘ
mainLocation	apartment building in Bombay ⓘ
narrativeForm	interconnected short stories ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person ⓘ third-person ⓘ
notableFor	early work of Rohinton Mistry ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
precedes	Such a Long Journey ⓘ
primaryCommunityDepicted	Parsi community ⓘ
publisher	Penguin Books ⓘ
setInCountry	India ⓘ
setting	Bombay ⓘ linked to: Mumbai Firozsha Baag apartment complex ⓘ
targetAudience	adult readers ⓘ
theme	Parsi identity ⓘ family relationships ⓘ immigrant experience ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ social change ⓘ urban life ⓘ
timePeriod	late 20th century Bombay ⓘ
tone	humorous ⓘ poignant ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rohinton Mistry → notableWork → Tales from Firozsha Baag ⓘ

Rohinton Mistry → shortStoryCollection → Tales from Firozsha Baag ⓘ

Tales from Firozsha Baag → alsoPublishedAs → Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag ⓘ

linked to: Tales from Firozsha Baag

Tales from Firozsha Baag → containsStory → The Ghost of Firozsha Baag ⓘ