Mr. Skeffington (novel)
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"Mr. Skeffington" is a 1940 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim that follows the aging, once-beautiful Fanny Skeffington as she confronts vanity, memory, and lost love against the backdrop of early 20th-century English society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Skeffington (novel) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6660707 — 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: Mr. Skeffington (novel) Context triple: [Mr. Skeffington, basedOn, Mr. Skeffington (novel)]
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A.
The World of Mr. Sweeney
The World of Mr. Sweeney is an American television sitcom best known for featuring actor Tom Bosley in one of his early starring roles.
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B.
Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands
"Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands" is a short story by American author Bret Harte that humorously and poignantly portrays frontier life and complex marital relationships in the Old West.
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C.
Stories of Mr. Keuner
Stories of Mr. Keuner is a collection of philosophical and political parables by Bertolt Brecht featuring the enigmatic figure Mr. Keuner, through whom Brecht explores ethics, ideology, and everyday life.
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D.
The Horseshoe
The Horseshoe is the iconic, horseshoe-shaped football stadium at The Ohio State University, officially known as Ohio Stadium.
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E.
McElligot’s Pool
McElligot’s Pool is a 1947 children’s picture book by Dr. Seuss that follows a boy’s imaginative musings about the fantastical fish he might catch in a seemingly unpromising pond.
- 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: Mr. Skeffington (novel) Target entity description: "Mr. Skeffington" is a 1940 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim that follows the aging, once-beautiful Fanny Skeffington as she confronts vanity, memory, and lost love against the backdrop of early 20th-century English society.
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A.
The World of Mr. Sweeney
The World of Mr. Sweeney is an American television sitcom best known for featuring actor Tom Bosley in one of his early starring roles.
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B.
Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands
"Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands" is a short story by American author Bret Harte that humorously and poignantly portrays frontier life and complex marital relationships in the Old West.
-
C.
Stories of Mr. Keuner
Stories of Mr. Keuner is a collection of philosophical and political parables by Bertolt Brecht featuring the enigmatic figure Mr. Keuner, through whom Brecht explores ethics, ideology, and everyday life.
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D.
The Horseshoe
The Horseshoe is the iconic, horseshoe-shaped football stadium at The Ohio State University, officially known as Ohio Stadium.
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E.
McElligot’s Pool
McElligot’s Pool is a 1947 children’s picture book by Dr. Seuss that follows a boy’s imaginative musings about the fantastical fish he might catch in a seemingly unpromising pond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Mr. Skeffington (film) ⓘ |
| author | Elizabeth von Arnim ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mr. Skeffington ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Vincent Sherman ⓘ |
| explores |
consequences of physical decline
ⓘ
contrast between inner and outer self ⓘ role of women in upper-class English society ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
novel of manners ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | protagonist is a former society beauty ⓘ |
| hasFemaleProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMoralQuestion |
possibility of emotional redemption in later life
ⓘ
value of beauty versus character ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 300 pages ⓘ |
| hasReception | critically well received on publication ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
English upper class
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interwar period society ⓘ middle-aged women ⓘ |
| hasTimeSetting | pre–World War I and interwar years ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Mr. Skeffington ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | standalone novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist-era fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Fanny Skeffington
ⓘ
Job Skeffington ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan
ⓘ
linked to:
Macmillan Publishers
|
| releaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | England ⓘ |
| starring |
Bette Davis
ⓘ
Claude Rains ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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female vanity ⓘ identity ⓘ lost love ⓘ marriage ⓘ memory ⓘ social class ⓘ |
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Subject: Mr. Skeffington (novel) Description of subject: "Mr. Skeffington" is a 1940 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim that follows the aging, once-beautiful Fanny Skeffington as she confronts vanity, memory, and lost love against the backdrop of early 20th-century English society.
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