short story "Low-lands"
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"Low-lands" is a short story featuring the character Benny Profane, known from Thomas Pynchon's novel "V."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| short story "Low-lands" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12943484 — 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: short story "Low-lands" Context triple: [Benny Profane, appearsIn, short story "Low-lands"]
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A.
short story "The Sentinel"
"The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's encounter with an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, later serving as a key inspiration for the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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B.
short story "The Sacrifice of Darkness"
"The Sacrifice of Darkness" is a short story by Roxane Gay that blends elements of fantasy and allegory to explore themes of loss, guilt, and resilience in a world literally and figuratively consumed by darkness.
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C.
Short Stories (album)
Short Stories is the 1980 debut collaborative album by Jon Anderson of Yes and Greek composer Vangelis, blending progressive rock with electronic and ambient elements.
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D.
A Very Short Story
"A Very Short Story" is a brief World War I–themed narrative by Ernest Hemingway, known for its concise style and emotional understatement, later collected in his book *In Our Time*.
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E.
short prose piece "Imperial Panorama"
"Imperial Panorama" is a brief, experimental prose section within Walter Benjamin’s collection One-Way Street, reflecting his characteristic blend of philosophical reflection, urban observation, and fragmentary modernist style.
- 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: short story "Low-lands" Target entity description: "Low-lands" is a short story featuring the character Benny Profane, known from Thomas Pynchon's novel "V."
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A.
short story "The Sentinel"
"The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's encounter with an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, later serving as a key inspiration for the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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B.
short story "The Sacrifice of Darkness"
"The Sacrifice of Darkness" is a short story by Roxane Gay that blends elements of fantasy and allegory to explore themes of loss, guilt, and resilience in a world literally and figuratively consumed by darkness.
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C.
Short Stories (album)
Short Stories is the 1980 debut collaborative album by Jon Anderson of Yes and Greek composer Vangelis, blending progressive rock with electronic and ambient elements.
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D.
A Very Short Story
"A Very Short Story" is a brief World War I–themed narrative by Ernest Hemingway, known for its concise style and emotional understatement, later collected in his book *In Our Time*.
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E.
short prose piece "Imperial Panorama"
"Imperial Panorama" is a brief, experimental prose section within Walter Benjamin’s collection One-Way Street, reflecting his characteristic blend of philosophical reflection, urban observation, and fragmentary modernist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
person ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Low-lands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
V. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Pynchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterOriginatesFrom | V. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Thomas Pynchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Benny Profane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling | Lowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfRelatedWork | Thomas Pynchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacterFromWork | V. ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Thomas Pynchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCharacter | Benny Profane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | short story ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle |
complex prose
ⓘ
experimental narrative ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Benny Profane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacter | Benny Profane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Benny Profane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
ⓘ
dislocation ⓘ identity ⓘ modern life ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Low-lands ⓘ |
| isFictionalWork | true ⓘ |
| isRelatedWorkOf | V. ⓘ |
| isWrittenIn | English ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Low-lands
ⓘ
V. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | novelist ⓘ |
| sharesUniverseWith | V. ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Thomas Pynchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: short story "Low-lands" Description of subject: "Low-lands" is a short story featuring the character Benny Profane, known from Thomas Pynchon's novel "V."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.