Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Cloud Cuckoo Land is a genre-blending novel by Anthony Doerr that interweaves multiple timelines and characters around a mysterious ancient text to explore themes of storytelling, resilience, and the preservation of knowledge.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cloud Cuckoo Land canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10034030 — 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: Cloud Cuckoo Land Context triple: [Anthony Doerr, notableWork, Cloud Cuckoo Land]
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A.
A Cloud in Trousers
A Cloud in Trousers is a landmark 1915 Russian Futurist poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky that blends passionate love, political revolt, and avant-garde experimentation.
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B.
The Story of a Cloud
The Story of a Cloud is a lesser-known literary work by 19th-century British author Hugh Conway, recognized for its reflective and atmospheric storytelling.
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C.
The Clapper
"The Clapper" is a track from J Dilla's influential debut studio album "Welcome 2 Detroit," showcasing his signature soulful, sample-based hip-hop production.
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D.
The Clapper
The Clapper is a 2017 American comedy film, based on Dito Montiel’s novel, about a professional audience member whose life is upended after unexpected television exposure.
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E.
Cloudbusting
"Cloudbusting" is a 1985 art-pop song by English musician Kate Bush, inspired by the relationship between psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and his son and known for its cinematic music video starring Donald Sutherland.
- 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: Cloud Cuckoo Land Target entity description: Cloud Cuckoo Land is a genre-blending novel by Anthony Doerr that interweaves multiple timelines and characters around a mysterious ancient text to explore themes of storytelling, resilience, and the preservation of knowledge.
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A.
A Cloud in Trousers
A Cloud in Trousers is a landmark 1915 Russian Futurist poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky that blends passionate love, political revolt, and avant-garde experimentation.
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B.
The Story of a Cloud
The Story of a Cloud is a lesser-known literary work by 19th-century British author Hugh Conway, recognized for its reflective and atmospheric storytelling.
-
C.
The Clapper
"The Clapper" is a track from J Dilla's influential debut studio album "Welcome 2 Detroit," showcasing his signature soulful, sample-based hip-hop production.
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D.
The Clapper
The Clapper is a 2017 American comedy film, based on Dito Montiel’s novel, about a professional audience member whose life is upended after unexpected television exposure.
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E.
Cloudbusting
"Cloudbusting" is a 1985 art-pop song by English musician Kate Bush, inspired by the relationship between psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and his son and known for its cinematic music video starring Donald Sutherland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Anthony Doerr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| centralElement |
ancient Greek text
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fictional text by Antonius Diogenes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
genre-blending novel
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historical fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-9821-5984-8 ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Constantinople
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ spacecraft Argos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | ancient Greek literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| longlistedFor | 2021 National Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Anna
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Konstance NERFINISHED ⓘ Omeir NERFINISHED ⓘ Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeno Ninis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketedAs | epic novel ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure |
interwoven stories
ⓘ
multiple timelines ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | 2021 Booker Prize longlist ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 640 ⓘ |
| precededBy | All the Light We Cannot See NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| publisher | Scribner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod |
15th century
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20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ future ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
connection across time
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environmentalism ⓘ preservation of knowledge ⓘ resilience ⓘ storytelling ⓘ war and conflict ⓘ |
| titleAlludesTo | Cloud Cuckoo Land in Aristophanes' The Birds 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: Cloud Cuckoo Land Description of subject: Cloud Cuckoo Land is a genre-blending novel by Anthony Doerr that interweaves multiple timelines and characters around a mysterious ancient text to explore themes of storytelling, resilience, and the preservation of knowledge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.