"Thousand Doors" in Javanese
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"Thousand Doors" in Javanese is the literal meaning of the name "Lawang Sewu," a historic colonial-era landmark in Semarang, Indonesia, famed for its many doors and windows.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Sewu" means "thousand" in Javanese | 1 |
| "Thousand Doors" in Javanese canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3080584 — 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: "Thousand Doors" in Javanese Context triple: [Lawang Sewu, nameMeaning, "Thousand Doors" in Javanese]
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A.
Javanese Kakawin Ramayana
Javanese Kakawin Ramayana is an Old Javanese poetic adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana, notable for its distinctive local cultural elements and literary style in the Javanese tradition.
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B.
Kejawen
Kejawen is a traditional Javanese spiritual and mystical belief system that blends indigenous animism, Hindu-Buddhist elements, and Islamic influences into a syncretic worldview and set of practices.
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C.
Sundanese Wiwitan
Sundanese Wiwitan is an indigenous Sundanese faith centered on ancestral traditions, nature veneration, and customary law, still practiced most prominently by the Baduy people of West Java, Indonesia.
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D.
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is the national motto of Indonesia, expressing the principle of unity in diversity among the country’s many ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.
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E.
Jonggring Saloko
Jonggring Saloko is the active summit crater of Mount Semeru, Indonesia’s highest volcano on Java, known for its frequent eruptions and volcanic activity.
- 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: "Thousand Doors" in Javanese Target entity description: "Thousand Doors" in Javanese is the literal meaning of the name "Lawang Sewu," a historic colonial-era landmark in Semarang, Indonesia, famed for its many doors and windows.
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A.
Javanese Kakawin Ramayana
Javanese Kakawin Ramayana is an Old Javanese poetic adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana, notable for its distinctive local cultural elements and literary style in the Javanese tradition.
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B.
Kejawen
Kejawen is a traditional Javanese spiritual and mystical belief system that blends indigenous animism, Hindu-Buddhist elements, and Islamic influences into a syncretic worldview and set of practices.
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C.
Sundanese Wiwitan
Sundanese Wiwitan is an indigenous Sundanese faith centered on ancestral traditions, nature veneration, and customary law, still practiced most prominently by the Baduy people of West Java, Indonesia.
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D.
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is the national motto of Indonesia, expressing the principle of unity in diversity among the country’s many ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.
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E.
Jonggring Saloko
Jonggring Saloko is the active summit crater of Mount Semeru, Indonesia’s highest volcano on Java, known for its frequent eruptions and volcanic activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building name
ⓘ
toponym ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Semarang ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | Indonesia ⓘ |
| associatedWithProvince |
Java
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Java
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| category | Javanese-language place names ⓘ |
| etymologyComponent |
lawang (door)
ⓘ
sewu (thousand) ⓘ |
| language | Javanese ⓘ |
| literalMeaningOf | Lawang Sewu ⓘ |
| meaningInEnglish | Thousand Doors ⓘ |
| notableFeatureImplied |
many doors
ⓘ
many windows ⓘ |
| refersTo | Lawang Sewu ⓘ |
| refersToTypeOfPlace | colonial-era landmark ⓘ |
| transliterationOf | Lawang Sewu ⓘ |
| usedFor | name of a historic landmark ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
heritage architecture in Indonesia
ⓘ
tourism in Semarang ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: "Thousand Doors" in Javanese Description of subject: "Thousand Doors" in Javanese is the literal meaning of the name "Lawang Sewu," a historic colonial-era landmark in Semarang, Indonesia, famed for its many doors and windows.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lawang Sewu
this entity surface form:
"Sewu" means "thousand" in Javanese