The Gate
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The Gate is a 1910 novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki that quietly explores themes of guilt, marriage, and spiritual searching in Meiji-era Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Gate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7790098 — 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 Gate Context triple: [Natsume Sōseki, notableWork, The Gate]
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A.
The Gate
The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
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B.
New Gate
New Gate is one of the historic entrances in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, providing access to the Christian Quarter and reflecting late Ottoman-era modifications to the ancient fortifications.
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C.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
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D.
Crossgates
Crossgates is a small village in Fife, Scotland, situated near the town of Dalgety Bay.
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E.
The Gatekeeper
The Gatekeeper is the stage name of a member of Gravediggaz, the influential horrorcore hip hop group known for its dark, horror-themed lyrics and production.
- 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 Gate Target entity description: The Gate is a 1910 novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki that quietly explores themes of guilt, marriage, and spiritual searching in Meiji-era Japan.
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A.
The Gate
The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
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B.
New Gate
New Gate is one of the historic entrances in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, providing access to the Christian Quarter and reflecting late Ottoman-era modifications to the ancient fortifications.
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C.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
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D.
Crossgates
Crossgates is a small village in Fife, Scotland, situated near the town of Dalgety Bay.
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E.
The Gatekeeper
The Gatekeeper is the stage name of a member of Gravediggaz, the influential horrorcore hip hop group known for its dark, horror-themed lyrics and production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Natsume Sōseki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| explores |
Zen Buddhism
ⓘ
consequences of past actions ⓘ marital relationship dynamics ⓘ |
| follows |
And Then
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanshirō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasStructure | three-part narrative ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | The Gate (English translation) ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modern Japanese literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Oyone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sōsuke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
everyday life
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ marriage ⓘ spiritual searching ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
introspective
ⓘ
quiet ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| partOf | Natsume Sōseki’s late-career works ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1910 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Meiji era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Tokyo 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: The Gate Description of subject: The Gate is a 1910 novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki that quietly explores themes of guilt, marriage, and spiritual searching in Meiji-era Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.