Lost Horizon (novel)
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Lost Horizon (novel) is a 1933 fantasy-adventure book by James Hilton that introduced the utopian lamasery of Shangri-La, a hidden valley in the Himalayas where people age slowly and live in serene harmony.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lost Horizon | 11 |
| Lost Horizon (novel) canonical | 3 |
| Lost Horizon (1933 novel) | 2 |
| High Lama in "Lost Horizon" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3017736 — 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: Lost Horizon (novel) Context triple: [Lost Horizon, basedOn, Lost Horizon (novel)]
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A.
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon is a classic 1937 fantasy-adventure film directed by Frank Capra, renowned for its depiction of the utopian lamasery of Shangri-La.
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B.
The Lost Paradise
The Lost Paradise is a late 19th-century American stage play by Henry Churchill DeMille, known for its melodramatic treatment of class conflict and industrial capitalism.
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Tell Atlas
The Tell Atlas is a fertile, densely populated mountain range in northern Algeria and Tunisia that forms part of the larger Atlas Mountains along the Mediterranean coast.
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Los pasos perdidos
Los pasos perdidos is a landmark novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that follows a disillusioned composer’s journey into the South American jungle in a symbolic search for origins, time, and identity.
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The Lost World
The Lost World is a pioneering 1925 silent adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking stop-motion dinosaur effects created by special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lost Horizon (novel) Target entity description: Lost Horizon (novel) is a 1933 fantasy-adventure book by James Hilton that introduced the utopian lamasery of Shangri-La, a hidden valley in the Himalayas where people age slowly and live in serene harmony.
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A.
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon is a classic 1937 fantasy-adventure film directed by Frank Capra, renowned for its depiction of the utopian lamasery of Shangri-La.
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B.
The Lost Paradise
The Lost Paradise is a late 19th-century American stage play by Henry Churchill DeMille, known for its melodramatic treatment of class conflict and industrial capitalism.
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C.
Tell Atlas
The Tell Atlas is a fertile, densely populated mountain range in northern Algeria and Tunisia that forms part of the larger Atlas Mountains along the Mediterranean coast.
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D.
Los pasos perdidos
Los pasos perdidos is a landmark novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that follows a disillusioned composer’s journey into the South American jungle in a symbolic search for origins, time, and identity.
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E.
The Lost World
The Lost World is a pioneering 1925 silent adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking stop-motion dinosaur effects created by special effects artist Willis H. O’Brien.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adventure novel
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fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Lost Horizon (1937 film)
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linked to:
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon (1973 film) ⓘ radio drama adaptations ⓘ stage musical adaptations ⓘ |
| author | James Hilton ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| feature |
hidden valley isolated from the world
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people age slowly in Shangri-La ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | Random Harvest ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
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fantasy ⓘ utopian fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-06-211372-6 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 300 pages ⓘ |
| influenced | popular concept of Shangri-La as earthly paradise ⓘ |
| introducedConcept | Shangri-La ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | interwar British fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Barnard
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Chang ⓘ High Lama ⓘ Hugh Conway ⓘ Mallinson ⓘ Miss Brinklow ⓘ |
| narrativeFrame | told through a frame story ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a hidden utopian community
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popularizing the term Shangri-La ⓘ |
| plotElement |
airplane hijacking
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discovery of hidden valley ⓘ utopian lamasery ⓘ |
| precededBy | And Now Goodbye ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1933 ⓘ |
| publisher | Macmillan Publishers ⓘ |
| setIn |
Himalayas
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Shangri-La ⓘ Tibet ⓘ
linked to:
Tibet Autonomous Region
|
| theme |
Western civilization and decline
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pacifism ⓘ spirituality ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ the search for meaning ⓘ utopia ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | interwar period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Lost Horizon (novel) Description of subject: Lost Horizon (novel) is a 1933 fantasy-adventure book by James Hilton that introduced the utopian lamasery of Shangri-La, a hidden valley in the Himalayas where people age slowly and live in serene harmony.
Referenced by (17)
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