Waiting
E1011928
"Waiting" is a critically acclaimed novel by Chinese-American author Ha Jin that explores love, duty, and personal freedom in post-revolutionary China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waiting canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12944631 — 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: Waiting Context triple: [Ha Jin, notableWork, Waiting]
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Wait
Wait is a given name historically used in English-speaking contexts, notably in early colonial America.
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Wait
"Wait" is a pop song by American band Maroon 5, released as a single from their 2017 album *Red Pill Blues*.
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Wait
"Wait" is a song by the Beatles, featured on their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
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Waits
Waits is the surname of American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits, known for his distinctive gravelly voice and eclectic, experimental style.
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WAITS
WAITS was an influential time-sharing operating system developed at Stanford University for the DEC PDP-10, notable for its advanced interactive computing and research-oriented features in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Waiting Target entity description: "Waiting" is a critically acclaimed novel by Chinese-American author Ha Jin that explores love, duty, and personal freedom in post-revolutionary China.
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A.
Wait
Wait is a given name historically used in English-speaking contexts, notably in early colonial America.
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B.
Wait
"Wait" is a song by the Beatles, featured on their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
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C.
Wait
"Wait" is a pop song by American band Maroon 5, released as a single from their 2017 album *Red Pill Blues*.
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D.
Waits
Waits is the surname of American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits, known for his distinctive gravelly voice and eclectic, experimental style.
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E.
WAITS
WAITS was an influential time-sharing operating system developed at Stanford University for the DEC PDP-10, notable for its advanced interactive computing and research-oriented features in the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Ha Jin ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Chinese-American ⓘ |
| awarded |
National Book Award for Fiction
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between tradition and modernity
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emotional consequences of long-term indecision ⓘ impact of Chinese social and legal systems on personal relationships ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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political fiction ⓘ romantic novel ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | explores tensions between individual desire and social obligation in modern China ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Lin Kong
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Manna Wu ⓘ Shuyu ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
bureaucracy
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duty ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ personal freedom ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | army doctor ⓘ |
| publisherCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| settingLocation | China ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post-revolutionary China ⓘ |
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: Waiting Description of subject: "Waiting" is a critically acclaimed novel by Chinese-American author Ha Jin that explores love, duty, and personal freedom in post-revolutionary China.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.