The Fortnight in September
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The Fortnight in September is a 1931 novel by R. C. Sherriff that gently and poignantly portrays an ordinary English family's annual seaside holiday and the quiet dramas of everyday life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fortnight in September canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Fortnight in September Context triple: [R. C. Sherriff, notableWork, The Fortnight in September]
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A.
May Week
May Week is the traditional end-of-year celebration period at the University of Cambridge, marked by parties, garden events, and formal balls.
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B.
September
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from summer to autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and from winter to spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
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C.
Until September
"Until September" is a 1984 romantic drama film starring Karen Allen as an American tourist who begins an affair with a married French banker while stranded in Paris.
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D.
Oktoechos
Oktoechos is a liturgical system of eight musical modes used in Eastern Christian chant traditions.
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E.
Onze de Setembre
Onze de Setembre is the National Day of Catalonia, commemorating the fall of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession on September 11, 1714.
- 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 Fortnight in September Target entity description: The Fortnight in September is a 1931 novel by R. C. Sherriff that gently and poignantly portrays an ordinary English family's annual seaside holiday and the quiet dramas of everyday life.
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A.
May Week
May Week is the traditional end-of-year celebration period at the University of Cambridge, marked by parties, garden events, and formal balls.
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B.
September
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from summer to autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and from winter to spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
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C.
Until September
"Until September" is a 1984 romantic drama film starring Karen Allen as an American tourist who begins an affair with a married French banker while stranded in Paris.
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D.
Oktoechos
Oktoechos is a liturgical system of eight musical modes used in Eastern Christian chant traditions.
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E.
Onze de Setembre
Onze de Setembre is the National Day of Catalonia, commemorating the fall of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession on September 11, 1714.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | R. C. Sherriff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception |
praised for its quiet realism
ⓘ
regarded as a rediscovered classic ⓘ |
| follows | an ordinary English family on holiday ⓘ |
| genre |
domestic fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | various, depending on edition ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | modern appreciations of everyday-life fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart | the family’s annual seaside holiday ⓘ |
| hasReissue |
Penguin Classics edition
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Persephone Books edition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
English seaside culture
ⓘ
aging and change ⓘ family relationships ⓘ holiday rituals ⓘ modest aspirations ⓘ working life in London ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | interwar literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacters | the Stevens family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family life
ⓘ
quiet dramas of ordinary people ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | everyday life ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
gentle
ⓘ
poignant ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed observation of everyday routines
ⓘ
sympathetic portrayal of lower-middle-class life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| publicationDate | 1931 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Bognor Regis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English seaside ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfFictionalEvents | two weeks ⓘ |
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Subject: The Fortnight in September Description of subject: The Fortnight in September is a 1931 novel by R. C. Sherriff that gently and poignantly portrays an ordinary English family's annual seaside holiday and the quiet dramas of everyday life.
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