L. P. Hartley
E349126
L. P. Hartley was a British novelist best known for his 1953 novel "The Go-Between," a classic exploration of memory, class, and lost innocence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L. P. Hartley canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3321332 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: L. P. Hartley Context triple: [The Go-Between, authorOfSourceWork, L. P. Hartley]
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A.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
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B.
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume series "A Dance to the Music of Time," a landmark of 20th-century British literature.
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C.
James Hilton
James Hilton was a British novelist best known for works such as "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," which became classics of 20th-century popular fiction.
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D.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
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E.
Edgar Box
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
- 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: L. P. Hartley Target entity description: L. P. Hartley was a British novelist best known for his 1953 novel "The Go-Between," a classic exploration of memory, class, and lost innocence.
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A.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
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B.
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume series "A Dance to the Music of Time," a landmark of 20th-century British literature.
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C.
James Hilton
James Hilton was a British novelist best known for works such as "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," which became classics of 20th-century popular fiction.
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D.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
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E.
Edgar Box
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| author | L. P. Hartley self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| birthName | Leslie Poles Hartley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1895-12-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1972-12-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Balliol College, Oxford
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Harrow School ⓘ |
| familyName | Hartley ⓘ |
| famousOpeningLine | The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age novel
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ghost story ⓘ novel ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Leslie ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class
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lost innocence ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century English literature ⓘ |
| name | L. P. Hartley self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Eustace and Hilda
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Eustace and Hilda ⓘ
surface form:
Eustace and Hilda (trilogy)
The Go-Between ⓘ The Hireling ⓘ The Shrimp and the Anemone ⓘ The Sixth Heaven ⓘ |
| occupation |
critic
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novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cambridgeshire, England
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surface form:
Cambridgeshire
Whittlesey ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| publicationDate | 1953 ⓘ |
| workFocus |
class
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innocence ⓘ memory ⓘ moral psychology ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
realist
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traditional ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: L. P. Hartley Description of subject: L. P. Hartley was a British novelist best known for his 1953 novel "The Go-Between," a classic exploration of memory, class, and lost innocence.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Go-Between