includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine"
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"The Time Machine" is a narrative device in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel *The Naked and the Dead* that presents characters’ past experiences through extended flashback sections.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2620655 — 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: includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine" Context triple: [The Naked and the Dead, structure, includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine"]
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A.
Flashbacks
Flashbacks is the autobiographical memoir of psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary, chronicling his life, experiments with psychedelics, and role in 1960s counterculture.
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B.
In Time
In Time is a 2011 science-fiction thriller film set in a future where time is used as currency, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.
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C.
Voyage in Time
Voyage in Time is a 1983 documentary film that follows director Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra as they travel through Italy discussing cinema, art, and Tarkovsky’s creative philosophy.
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D.
Timescape
Timescape is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that explores time communication and ecological catastrophe through a hard-science, character-driven narrative.
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E.
Journeys in Space and Time
"Journeys in Space and Time" is a notable episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the nature of space-time, relativity, and the vast scales of the universe.
- 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: includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine" Target entity description: "The Time Machine" is a narrative device in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel *The Naked and the Dead* that presents characters’ past experiences through extended flashback sections.
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A.
Flashbacks
Flashbacks is the autobiographical memoir of psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary, chronicling his life, experiments with psychedelics, and role in 1960s counterculture.
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B.
In Time
In Time is a 2011 science-fiction thriller film set in a future where time is used as currency, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.
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C.
Voyage in Time
Voyage in Time is a 1983 documentary film that follows director Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra as they travel through Italy discussing cinema, art, and Tarkovsky’s creative philosophy.
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D.
Timescape
Timescape is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that explores time communication and ecological catastrophe through a hard-science, character-driven narrative.
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E.
Journeys in Space and Time
"Journeys in Space and Time" is a notable episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the nature of space-time, relativity, and the vast scales of the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flashback technique
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narrative device ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
formation of character under social and personal pressures
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impact of past on present behavior ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| authorOfWork | Norman Mailer ⓘ |
| chronologicalEffect | disrupts linear chronology of the main plot ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
The Time Machine (1895 novel by H. G. Wells)
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linked to:
The Time Machine
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| function |
to present characters’ past experiences
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to provide extended flashback sections ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInWorkPart | interspersed throughout the novel ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
character backstory exposition
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psychological characterization ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | interpolated flashbacks within main wartime narrative ⓘ |
| readerEffect |
creates contrast between civilian past and wartime present
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deepens understanding of characters’ motivations ⓘ |
| scope | focuses on individual soldiers’ earlier lives ⓘ |
| temporalRelation | shifts from present wartime events to earlier life periods of characters ⓘ |
| textualForm | extended prose sections distinct from main narrative line ⓘ |
| titleStyle | capitalized phrase within the novel’s text ⓘ |
| usedInGenre |
World War II fiction
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war novel ⓘ |
| usedInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| usedInWork | The Naked and the Dead ⓘ |
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: includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine" Description of subject: "The Time Machine" is a narrative device in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel *The Naked and the Dead* that presents characters’ past experiences through extended flashback sections.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.