Time's Arrow
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Time's Arrow is a 1991 novel by Martin Amis that tells the life of a Nazi doctor in reverse chronological order, using backward time to explore guilt, memory, and moral responsibility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Time's Arrow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7674895 — 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: Time's Arrow Context triple: [Martin Amis, notableWork, Time's Arrow]
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A.
"Time's Arrow"
"Time's Arrow" is a two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode involving time travel, Data's severed head, and an investigation that spans 19th-century Earth and the 24th century.
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B.
The Matter of Time
The Matter of Time is a monumental series of weathered steel sculptures by Richard Serra that creates immersive, maze-like spatial experiences for viewers, permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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C.
The Refusal of Time
The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
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D.
Laws of Time
The Laws of Time are the strict temporal regulations in the Doctor Who universe that govern how Time Lords may interact with and alter history.
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E.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time is a novel by Julian Barnes that fictionalizes the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich under Stalinist oppression.
- 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: Time's Arrow Target entity description: Time's Arrow is a 1991 novel by Martin Amis that tells the life of a Nazi doctor in reverse chronological order, using backward time to explore guilt, memory, and moral responsibility.
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A.
"Time's Arrow"
"Time's Arrow" is a two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode involving time travel, Data's severed head, and an investigation that spans 19th-century Earth and the 24th century.
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B.
The Matter of Time
The Matter of Time is a monumental series of weathered steel sculptures by Richard Serra that creates immersive, maze-like spatial experiences for viewers, permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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C.
The Refusal of Time
The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
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D.
Laws of Time
The Laws of Time are the strict temporal regulations in the Doctor Who universe that govern how Time Lords may interact with and alter history.
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E.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time is a novel by Julian Barnes that fictionalizes the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich under Stalinist oppression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Martin Amis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
Holocaust atrocities
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Nazi war crimes ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
moral inversion
ⓘ
unreliable narration ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
postmodern novel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780679735724 ⓘ |
| hasNarrator | disembodied consciousness ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 176 ⓘ |
| hasStructure | backward time sequence ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary British literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nazi doctor ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique | reverse chronological order ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
World War II
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post-World War II era ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor | Booker Prize ⓘ |
| theme |
Holocaust
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evil ⓘ guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Time's Arrow Description of subject: Time's Arrow is a 1991 novel by Martin Amis that tells the life of a Nazi doctor in reverse chronological order, using backward time to explore guilt, memory, and moral responsibility.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.