the Kesh
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The Kesh are an imagined, future indigenous-like people in Ursula K. Le Guin’s experimental novel "Always Coming Home," known for their egalitarian, ecologically harmonious culture in a post-apocalyptic California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the Kesh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16036004 — 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 Kesh Context triple: [Always Coming Home, mainPeopleDepicted, the Kesh]
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A.
Kishar
Kishar is a primordial Mesopotamian earth goddess associated with the horizon and paired with the sky god Anshar in ancient creation myths.
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B.
Keteyian
Keteyian is the surname of Armen Keteyian, an American television journalist and author known for his investigative sports reporting.
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C.
Katurian
Katurian is the troubled fiction writer at the center of Martin McDonagh’s dark play "The Pillowman," whose disturbing stories become entangled with a series of real-life crimes.
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D.
Kushnar
Kushnar is an alternative written form or spelling variant of the name Kushner.
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E.
Kalayeshan
Kalayeshan is a mountain or subrange located within Taiwan’s Xueshan (Snow Mountain) Range, known for its high-altitude terrain and alpine landscapes.
- 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 Kesh Target entity description: The Kesh are an imagined, future indigenous-like people in Ursula K. Le Guin’s experimental novel "Always Coming Home," known for their egalitarian, ecologically harmonious culture in a post-apocalyptic California.
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A.
Kishar
Kishar is a primordial Mesopotamian earth goddess associated with the horizon and paired with the sky god Anshar in ancient creation myths.
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B.
Keteyian
Keteyian is the surname of Armen Keteyian, an American television journalist and author known for his investigative sports reporting.
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C.
Katurian
Katurian is the troubled fiction writer at the center of Martin McDonagh’s dark play "The Pillowman," whose disturbing stories become entangled with a series of real-life crimes.
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D.
Kushnar
Kushnar is an alternative written form or spelling variant of the name Kushner.
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E.
Kalayeshan
Kalayeshan is a mountain or subrange located within Taiwan’s Xueshan (Snow Mountain) Range, known for its high-altitude terrain and alpine landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.