House of the Sleeping Beauties
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House of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata that explores aging, desire, and loneliness through an eerie establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women.
All labels observed (1)
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| House of the Sleeping Beauties canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10454153 — 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: House of the Sleeping Beauties Context triple: [Kawabata Yasunari, notableWork, House of the Sleeping Beauties]
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Sleeping Beauties
"Sleeping Beauties" is a horror-fantasy novel co-written by Owen King and his father Stephen King that imagines a world where women fall into a mysterious sleep, triggering societal collapse and conflict.
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B.
The Enchanted Cottage
The Enchanted Cottage is a romantic fantasy film best known for featuring silent-era star Billie Dove in a poignant tale of love transformed by inner beauty and perception.
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C.
House of the Deer
House of the Deer is a luxurious Roman seaside villa in Herculaneum, renowned for its elegant architecture, marble sculptures, and well-preserved frescoes buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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The House of All Sorts
The House of All Sorts is a semi-autobiographical book by Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr, depicting her life as a landlady and her observations of people and society in early 20th-century British Columbia.
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E.
Hall of Lilies
The Hall of Lilies is an ornately decorated chamber in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, renowned for its rich frescoes and symbolic fleur-de-lis motifs celebrating the city’s civic identity.
- 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: House of the Sleeping Beauties Target entity description: House of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata that explores aging, desire, and loneliness through an eerie establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women.
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A.
Sleeping Beauties
"Sleeping Beauties" is a horror-fantasy novel co-written by Owen King and his father Stephen King that imagines a world where women fall into a mysterious sleep, triggering societal collapse and conflict.
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B.
The Enchanted Cottage
The Enchanted Cottage is a romantic fantasy film best known for featuring silent-era star Billie Dove in a poignant tale of love transformed by inner beauty and perception.
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C.
House of the Deer
House of the Deer is a luxurious Roman seaside villa in Herculaneum, renowned for its elegant architecture, marble sculptures, and well-preserved frescoes buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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D.
The House of All Sorts
The House of All Sorts is a semi-autobiographical book by Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr, depicting her life as a landlady and her observations of people and society in early 20th-century British Columbia.
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E.
Hall of Lilies
The Hall of Lilies is an ornately decorated chamber in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, renowned for its rich frescoes and symbolic fleur-de-lis motifs celebrating the city’s civic identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| author | Yasunari Kawabata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
old age
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silence ⓘ sleep ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| contains |
dreamlike atmosphere
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symbolic imagery ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| explores |
moral ambiguity
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the boundary between eros and thanatos ⓘ the fear of impotence ⓘ the objectification of women ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ the psychology of old age ⓘ voyeurism ⓘ |
| features |
an unnamed madam who runs the house
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strict rules forbidding touching the girls sexually ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serialized fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
erotic fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The House of the Sleeping Beauties (film)
NERFINISHED
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The House of the Sleeping Beauties (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
adaptations in world cinema
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later Japanese erotic literature ⓘ |
| includedIn | Yasunari Kawabata’s body of work cited for the Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
aging
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death ⓘ desire ⓘ loneliness ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
its disturbing and lyrical style
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its portrayal of eroticism without physical consummation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| protagonist | Eguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Snow Country
NERFINISHED
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The Sound of the Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Thousand Cranes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | an establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women ⓘ |
| tone |
eerie
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introspective ⓘ melancholic ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: House of the Sleeping Beauties Description of subject: House of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata that explores aging, desire, and loneliness through an eerie establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women.
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