Un Lun Dun
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Un Lun Dun is a contemporary fantasy novel by China Miéville that follows two girls who discover a bizarre, alternate version of London filled with strange creatures and surreal dangers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Un Lun Dun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861746 — 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: Un Lun Dun Context triple: [China Miéville, notableWork, Un Lun Dun]
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A.
Citizen Khan
Citizen Khan is a British sitcom centered on a self-appointed community leader in Birmingham’s Pakistani Muslim community, known for its family-based comedy and cultural satire.
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B.
Yannai
Yannai is another name for Alexander Jannaeus, a Hasmonean king of Judea and high priest who ruled in the early 1st century BCE.
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C.
Nal o Daman
Nal o Daman is a celebrated Persian masnavi (narrative poem) by the Mughal court poet Faizi, renowned for its romantic and allegorical storytelling.
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D.
Dilan
Dilan is a given name shared by various individuals, including Dutch politician Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius.
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E.
Kickshaw
Kickshaw is a character in James Shirley’s Caroline-era comedy "The Lady of Pleasure," contributing to the play’s satirical portrayal of decadent aristocratic society.
- 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: Un Lun Dun Target entity description: Un Lun Dun is a contemporary fantasy novel by China Miéville that follows two girls who discover a bizarre, alternate version of London filled with strange creatures and surreal dangers.
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A.
Citizen Khan
Citizen Khan is a British sitcom centered on a self-appointed community leader in Birmingham’s Pakistani Muslim community, known for its family-based comedy and cultural satire.
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B.
Yannai
Yannai is another name for Alexander Jannaeus, a Hasmonean king of Judea and high priest who ruled in the early 1st century BCE.
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C.
Nal o Daman
Nal o Daman is a celebrated Persian masnavi (narrative poem) by the Mughal court poet Faizi, renowned for its romantic and allegorical storytelling.
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D.
Dilan
Dilan is a given name shared by various individuals, including Dutch politician Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius.
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E.
Kickshaw
Kickshaw is a character in James Shirley’s Caroline-era comedy "The Lady of Pleasure," contributing to the play’s satirical portrayal of decadent aristocratic society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary fantasy novel
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fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| antagonist | Smog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | China Miéville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award |
BSFA Award nomination
NERFINISHED
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Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement |
alternate London
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animate umbrellas ⓘ bus conductors ⓘ living words ⓘ sentient garbage ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary fantasy
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fantasy ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780330441604 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 520 ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
portal fantasy
ⓘ
urban fantasy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
courage
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destiny and choice ⓘ environmentalism ⓘ friendship ⓘ subversion of the chosen one trope ⓘ |
| illustrator | China Miéville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Brokk
NERFINISHED
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Curdle NERFINISHED ⓘ Deeba NERFINISHED ⓘ Hemi NERFINISHED ⓘ Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Obaday Fing NERFINISHED ⓘ Skool ⓘ Zanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market |
UK market
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US market ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Del Rey Books
NERFINISHED
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Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherImprint | Pan Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
UnLondon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
older children
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young adults ⓘ |
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: Un Lun Dun Description of subject: Un Lun Dun is a contemporary fantasy novel by China Miéville that follows two girls who discover a bizarre, alternate version of London filled with strange creatures and surreal dangers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.