The Distant Hours
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The Distant Hours is a gothic historical novel by Australian author Kate Morton that weaves together family secrets, wartime memories, and a mysterious English castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Distant Hours canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3906540 — 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: The Distant Hours Context triple: [Kate Morton, notableWork, The Distant Hours]
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A.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
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B.
The Little Hours
The Little Hours is a 2017 comedy film loosely based on Boccaccio’s The Decameron, following a group of misbehaving nuns whose convent is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a young servant.
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C.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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D.
Beacon Lights
Beacon Lights is a Christian periodical associated with the Protestant Reformed tradition, focusing on doctrinal teaching and spiritual instruction for young people.
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E.
Against the Fall of Night
Against the Fall of Night is a classic early science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores a far-future, dying Earth and humanity’s quest to transcend its long decline.
- 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: The Distant Hours Target entity description: The Distant Hours is a gothic historical novel by Australian author Kate Morton that weaves together family secrets, wartime memories, and a mysterious English castle.
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A.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
The Dawns Here Are Quiet is a Russian war drama film (originally a Soviet-era story) about a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners fighting in a remote forest during World War II.
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B.
The Little Hours
The Little Hours is a 2017 comedy film loosely based on Boccaccio’s The Decameron, following a group of misbehaving nuns whose convent is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a young servant.
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C.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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D.
Beacon Lights
Beacon Lights is a Christian periodical associated with the Protestant Reformed tradition, focusing on doctrinal teaching and spiritual instruction for young people.
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E.
Against the Fall of Night
Against the Fall of Night is a classic early science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores a far-future, dying Earth and humanity’s quest to transcend its long decline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gothic novel
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historical novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Kate Morton ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| featuresFamily | Blythe family ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Secret Keeper ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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historical fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-230-74809-2 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
crumbling castle
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hidden manuscript ⓘ old letters ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | over 600 pages ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Milderhurst Castle ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Edie Burchill ⓘ |
| marketedAs | literary fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | dual timeline ⓘ |
| partOf | Kate Morton bibliography ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Australia ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Forgotten Garden ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Allen & Unwin
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Pan Macmillan ⓘ |
| setInCountry | England ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| theme |
family secrets
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gothic romance ⓘ memory ⓘ sisters and sibling relationships ⓘ war and its aftermath ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Distant Hours Description of subject: The Distant Hours is a gothic historical novel by Australian author Kate Morton that weaves together family secrets, wartime memories, and a mysterious English castle.
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