Ending Up
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Ending Up is a darkly comic novel by Kingsley Amis that follows a group of irritable elderly residents in a country house as they bicker, scheme, and confront the indignities of old age.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ending Up canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8510230 — 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: Ending Up Context triple: [Kingsley Amis, notableWork, Ending Up]
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A.
The End of Something
"The End of Something" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of change and the dissolution of a relationship against the backdrop of a declining mill town.
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B.
Loose Ends
"Loose Ends" is a song by American hip-hop duo The Roots, featured on their 1999 album "Things Fall Apart."
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C.
Dead End
"Dead End" is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by William Wyler and based on Sidney Kingsley's play, that helped popularize the Dead End Kids and featured Marjorie Main in a notable role.
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D.
End of the Line
"End of the Line" is a 1988 folk-rock song by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys, celebrated for its upbeat reflection on resilience and camaraderie and for featuring contributions from all the band’s members.
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E.
The Beginning or the End
"The Beginning or the End" is a 1947 American docudrama film dramatizing the development and use of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- 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: Ending Up Target entity description: Ending Up is a darkly comic novel by Kingsley Amis that follows a group of irritable elderly residents in a country house as they bicker, scheme, and confront the indignities of old age.
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A.
The End of Something
"The End of Something" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of change and the dissolution of a relationship against the backdrop of a declining mill town.
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B.
Loose Ends
"Loose Ends" is a song by American hip-hop duo The Roots, featured on their 1999 album "Things Fall Apart."
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C.
Dead End
"Dead End" is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by William Wyler and based on Sidney Kingsley's play, that helped popularize the Dead End Kids and featured Marjorie Main in a notable role.
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D.
End of the Line
"End of the Line" is a 1988 folk-rock song by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys, celebrated for its upbeat reflection on resilience and camaraderie and for featuring contributions from all the band’s members.
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E.
The Beginning or the End
"The Beginning or the End" is a 1947 American docudrama film dramatizing the development and use of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Kingsley Amis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstPublication | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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comic novel ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
irritable
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manipulative ⓘ petty ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
elderly residents
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pensioners ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMotive | characters bicker and scheme against each other ⓘ |
| hasReception |
critically acclaimed for its dark humor
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noted for unsentimental portrayal of old age ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
aging
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care of the elderly ⓘ dependency ⓘ friendship in old age ⓘ mental decline ⓘ physical decline ⓘ resentment ⓘ social isolation ⓘ |
| hasTargetOfSatire |
attitudes toward the elderly
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middle-class English manners ⓘ |
| length | short novel ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
death
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decline ⓘ family dysfunction ⓘ interpersonal conflict ⓘ loneliness ⓘ old age ⓘ |
| movement | postwar British fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Kingsley Amis bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
comic aspects of decline
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indignities of old age ⓘ petty cruelties among the elderly ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
English countryside
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country house ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ending Up Description of subject: Ending Up is a darkly comic novel by Kingsley Amis that follows a group of irritable elderly residents in a country house as they bicker, scheme, and confront the indignities of old age.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kingsley Amis