Bas-Lag
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Bas-Lag is the dark, imaginative secondary-world setting created by China Miéville for his New Weird fantasy novels, including Perdido Street Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bas-Lag canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19754314 — 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: Bas-Lag Context triple: [Perdido Street Station, partOfSeries, Bas-Lag]
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A.
Lagar
Lagar is a poetry collection by Chilean Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral that reflects her mature, introspective, and often somber lyrical style.
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B.
Betlan
Betlan is a small village in the Val d'Aran region of Catalonia, Spain, known for its traditional Pyrenean architecture and mountainous surroundings.
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C.
Baralaba
Baralaba is a small rural town in Central Queensland, Australia, known for its cattle grazing and coal mining industries along the Dawson River.
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D.
Levasy
Levasy is a small city located in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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E.
Belsand
Belsand is a small town in the Sitamarhi district of the Indian state of Bihar, known primarily as a local administrative and market center for surrounding rural areas.
- 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: Bas-Lag Target entity description: Bas-Lag is the dark, imaginative secondary-world setting created by China Miéville for his New Weird fantasy novels, including Perdido Street Station.
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A.
Lagar
Lagar is a poetry collection by Chilean Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral that reflects her mature, introspective, and often somber lyrical style.
-
B.
Betlan
Betlan is a small village in the Val d'Aran region of Catalonia, Spain, known for its traditional Pyrenean architecture and mountainous surroundings.
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C.
Baralaba
Baralaba is a small rural town in Central Queensland, Australia, known for its cattle grazing and coal mining industries along the Dawson River.
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D.
Levasy
Levasy is a small city located in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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E.
Belsand
Belsand is a small town in the Sitamarhi district of the Indian state of Bihar, known primarily as a local administrative and market center for surrounding rural areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.