The Last of Mr Norris
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The Last of Mr Norris is a 1935 novel by Christopher Isherwood that portrays the political tensions and seedy underworld of Weimar Berlin through the narrator’s relationship with the enigmatic title character.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Last of Mr Norris canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10357057 — 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 Last of Mr Norris Context triple: [Mr Norris Changes Trains, titleVariant, The Last of Mr Norris]
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A.
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air is the memoir of British Olympic diver Tom Daley, chronicling his life, career, and personal journey in and out of the pool.
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B.
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air is a 1939 novel by George Orwell that follows a middle-aged insurance salesman seeking escape from modern life's anxieties through nostalgic return to his rural childhood.
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C.
The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room is a 1949 British film noir drama directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, focusing on a troubled bomb-disposal expert during World War II.
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D.
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in a romantic tangle at Blandings Castle.
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E.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
"Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable valet Jeeves and his hapless employer Bertie Wooster in one of their classic misadventures.
- 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 Last of Mr Norris Target entity description: The Last of Mr Norris is a 1935 novel by Christopher Isherwood that portrays the political tensions and seedy underworld of Weimar Berlin through the narrator’s relationship with the enigmatic title character.
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A.
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air is the memoir of British Olympic diver Tom Daley, chronicling his life, career, and personal journey in and out of the pool.
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B.
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air is a 1939 novel by George Orwell that follows a middle-aged insurance salesman seeking escape from modern life's anxieties through nostalgic return to his rural childhood.
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C.
The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room is a 1949 British film noir drama directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, focusing on a troubled bomb-disposal expert during World War II.
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D.
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in a romantic tangle at Blandings Castle.
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E.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
"Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable valet Jeeves and his hapless employer Bertie Wooster in one of their classic misadventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Cabaret (indirectly, via Isherwood’s Berlin stories) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Christopher Isherwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Rex Whistler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
communist underground in Berlin
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political tensions in Weimar Berlin ⓘ rise of Nazism ⓘ seedy underworld of Berlin ⓘ |
| firstEditionCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionPublisher | William Heinemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionTitle | Mr Norris Changes Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Goodbye to Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT-related novel
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political novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Mr Norris Changes Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Arthur Norris
NERFINISHED
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Baron von Pregnitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Fraulein Schroeder NERFINISHED ⓘ Ludwig Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ William Bradshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780811200677 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 250 ⓘ |
| hasSettingFeature |
boarding houses in Berlin
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border crossings and train journeys ⓘ cafés and nightclubs in Berlin ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Berlin Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | key work in English-language depictions of Weimar Berlin ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Arthur Norris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter | William Bradshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| publisher | William Heinemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPlace | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship under political pressure
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moral ambiguity ⓘ political opportunism ⓘ sexual ambiguity ⓘ surveillance and espionage ⓘ |
| timeOfNarrative | early 1930s ⓘ |
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