Hearing Secret Harmonies
E541597
Hearing Secret Harmonies is the twelfth and final novel in Anthony Powell’s cycle A Dance to the Music of Time, concluding his expansive exploration of British society across the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hearing Secret Harmonies canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5711535 — 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: Hearing Secret Harmonies Context triple: [Anthony Powell, notableWork, Hearing Secret Harmonies]
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A.
I Hear a Symphony
"I Hear a Symphony" is a 1966 studio album by Motown girl group The Supremes, showcasing their signature blend of soulful vocals and pop-oriented production.
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B.
Longing for the Harmonies
Longing for the Harmonies is a popular-science book that explains modern physics and the fundamental laws of nature in accessible, non-technical language.
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C.
Harmonize
Harmonize is a Tanzanian singer and songwriter known for his Bongo Flava hits and for helping popularize East African music across the continent.
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D.
The Sound in Your Mind
"The Sound in Your Mind" is a 1976 country album by Willie Nelson that blends original songs and covers in his signature outlaw country style.
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E.
One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
"One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" that explores the origin, evolution, and diversity of life in the universe.
- 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: Hearing Secret Harmonies Target entity description: Hearing Secret Harmonies is the twelfth and final novel in Anthony Powell’s cycle A Dance to the Music of Time, concluding his expansive exploration of British society across the 20th century.
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A.
I Hear a Symphony
"I Hear a Symphony" is a 1966 studio album by Motown girl group The Supremes, showcasing their signature blend of soulful vocals and pop-oriented production.
-
B.
Longing for the Harmonies
Longing for the Harmonies is a popular-science book that explains modern physics and the fundamental laws of nature in accessible, non-technical language.
-
C.
Harmonize
Harmonize is a Tanzanian singer and songwriter known for his Bongo Flava hits and for helping popularize East African music across the continent.
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D.
The Sound in Your Mind
"The Sound in Your Mind" is a 1976 country album by Willie Nelson that blends original songs and covers in his signature outlaw country style.
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E.
One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
"One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" that explores the origin, evolution, and diversity of life in the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Anthony Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concludesNarrativeArcOf |
Kenneth Widmerpool
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
British society
ⓘ
aging ⓘ art and literature ⓘ cults ⓘ memory ⓘ political extremism ⓘ sexual politics ⓘ social change ⓘ time ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Bithel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fiona Cutts NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth Widmerpool NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Members ⓘ Pamela Widmerpool NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Gwinnett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Temporary Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
novel of manners
ⓘ
social novel ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
book
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasSequel | none ⓘ |
| hasShakespeareanAllusion | A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructure | multi-chapter continuous narrative ⓘ |
| hasSubject | British upper and middle classes ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | phrase "Hearing secret harmonies" from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFinalWorkInSeries | A Dance to the Music of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFollowedInReadingBy | critical studies of A Dance to the Music of Time ⓘ |
| isPartOfCanonOf | British literature ⓘ |
| literaryCycle | A Dance to the Music of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | A Dance to the Music of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationPlace | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Heinemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesPosition | 12 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfEvents | late 1960s and early 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hearing Secret Harmonies Description of subject: Hearing Secret Harmonies is the twelfth and final novel in Anthony Powell’s cycle A Dance to the Music of Time, concluding his expansive exploration of British society across the 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.