The Inverted World
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The Inverted World is a 1974 science fiction novel by Christopher Priest, renowned for its mind-bending depiction of a city that must constantly move along tracks to survive in a bizarrely distorted world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Inverted World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10444665 — 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 Inverted World Context triple: [Christopher Priest, notableWork, The Inverted World]
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A.
The World Upside Down
The World Upside Down is a satirical genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen that humorously depicts a chaotic household as a moral lesson about disorder and social inversion.
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B.
The World Unseen
The World Unseen is a 2007 period drama film set in 1950s apartheid-era South Africa that explores forbidden love and social oppression within the Indian South African community.
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C.
Mundus Admirabilis
Mundus Admirabilis is an immersive installation artwork by Brazilian artist Regina Silveira that transforms exhibition spaces with large-scale, fantastical insect silhouettes to explore themes of perception, scale, and the uncanny.
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D.
The Land of Topsy-Turvy
The Land of Topsy-Turvy is a whimsical, upside-down world in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series where normal rules are reversed and everything happens back-to-front.
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E.
El mundo alucinante
El mundo alucinante is a celebrated experimental novel by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas that fictionalizes the life and adventures of the 18th-century Mexican friar Servando Teresa de Mier.
- 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 Inverted World Target entity description: The Inverted World is a 1974 science fiction novel by Christopher Priest, renowned for its mind-bending depiction of a city that must constantly move along tracks to survive in a bizarrely distorted world.
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A.
The World Upside Down
The World Upside Down is a satirical genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen that humorously depicts a chaotic household as a moral lesson about disorder and social inversion.
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B.
The World Unseen
The World Unseen is a 2007 period drama film set in 1950s apartheid-era South Africa that explores forbidden love and social oppression within the Indian South African community.
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C.
Mundus Admirabilis
Mundus Admirabilis is an immersive installation artwork by Brazilian artist Regina Silveira that transforms exhibition spaces with large-scale, fantastical insect silhouettes to explore themes of perception, scale, and the uncanny.
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D.
The Land of Topsy-Turvy
The Land of Topsy-Turvy is a whimsical, upside-down world in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series where normal rules are reversed and everything happens back-to-front.
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E.
El mundo alucinante
El mundo alucinante is a celebrated experimental novel by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas that fictionalizes the life and adventures of the 18th-century Mexican friar Servando Teresa de Mier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Christopher Priest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
need to keep the city moving to survive
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tension between truth and official doctrine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed for originality and conceptual rigor ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle | Inverted World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | various artists for different editions ⓘ |
| hasEdition | Gollancz SF Masterworks edition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | varies by edition ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
distorted landscape
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moving city ⓘ surveying and measurement ⓘ |
| hasOrganization | the Guilds that run the city ⓘ |
| hasStructure | divided into multiple parts following protagonist’s training and discoveries ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
cartography and mapping
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city as organism ⓘ coming‑of‑age of protagonist ⓘ epistemology ⓘ |
| hasTechnology | rail‑based traction system for city movement ⓘ |
| hasTwist | revelation about the true nature of the world’s geometry ⓘ |
| influenced | later works on mobile cities and moving habitats ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | concept‑driven, precise prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Helward Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a city that must constantly move along tracks
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exploration of perception and reality ⓘ mind‑bending treatment of space and geometry ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | 250 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | SF Masterworks (reprint series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
a distorted world with non‑Euclidean geography
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a mobile city moving on rails ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
dystopian society
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relativity of perception ⓘ scientific exploration and its limits ⓘ social control and secrecy ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | far future or alternate reality ⓘ |
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Subject: The Inverted World Description of subject: The Inverted World is a 1974 science fiction novel by Christopher Priest, renowned for its mind-bending depiction of a city that must constantly move along tracks to survive in a bizarrely distorted world.
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