The Time Regulation Institute
E79008
The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical novel by Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar that critiques modernization and bureaucracy in early 20th-century Turkey.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T633126 — 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 Time Regulation Institute Context triple: [Turkish literature, notableWork, The Time Regulation Institute]
-
A.
International Atomic Time
International Atomic Time is a high-precision time standard based on the combined output of atomic clocks worldwide, serving as the fundamental reference for modern civil and scientific timekeeping.
-
B.
Niue Time
Niue Time is the standard time observed in the island nation of Niue, a small self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
-
C.
Laws of Time
The Laws of Time are the strict temporal regulations in the Doctor Who universe that govern how Time Lords may interact with and alter history.
-
D.
Calcutta Time
Calcutta Time was a former local time standard used in Kolkata (then Calcutta) before the adoption of a unified national time zone in India.
-
E.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
- 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 Time Regulation Institute Target entity description: The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical novel by Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar that critiques modernization and bureaucracy in early 20th-century Turkey.
-
A.
International Atomic Time
International Atomic Time is a high-precision time standard based on the combined output of atomic clocks worldwide, serving as the fundamental reference for modern civil and scientific timekeeping.
-
B.
Niue Time
Niue Time is the standard time observed in the island nation of Niue, a small self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.
-
C.
Laws of Time
The Laws of Time are the strict temporal regulations in the Doctor Who universe that govern how Time Lords may interact with and alter history.
-
D.
Calcutta Time
Calcutta Time was a former local time standard used in Kolkata (then Calcutta) before the adoption of a unified national time zone in India.
-
E.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar ⓘ |
| centralInstitution |
The Time Regulation Institute
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Regulation Institute
|
| countryOfOrigin | Turkey ⓘ |
| critiques |
blind imitation of the West
ⓘ
state bureaucracy ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
founding of the Republic of Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican-era Turkey
|
| explores |
individual and society
ⓘ
tension between tradition and modernity ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
ⓘ
social critique ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dr. Ramiz
ⓘ
Halit Ayarcı ⓘ Hayri İrdal ⓘ |
| hasTitleInOriginalLanguage |
The Time Regulation Institute
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
|
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Westernization
ⓘ
bureaucracy ⓘ modernization in Turkey ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
allegorical portrayal of modernization
ⓘ
critique of Turkish bureaucracy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Turkish ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Turkey ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
ⓘ
satirical ⓘ |
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 Time Regulation Institute Description of subject: The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical novel by Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar that critiques modernization and bureaucracy in early 20th-century Turkey.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Time Regulation Institute
→
centralInstitution
→
The Time Regulation Institute
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Time Regulation Institute
The Time Regulation Institute
→
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage
→
The Time Regulation Institute
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
this entity surface form:
Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
this entity surface form:
The Time Regulation Institute universe
this entity surface form:
Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
this entity surface form:
Time Regulation Institute (fictional institution)
this entity surface form:
The Time Regulation Institute (published 1961)
this entity surface form:
"The Time Regulation Institute"