Facing the Bridge
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"Facing the Bridge" is a collection of surreal, linguistically playful short stories by Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada that explore themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Facing the Bridge canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2510141 — 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: Facing the Bridge Context triple: [Yoko Tawada, notableWork, Facing the Bridge]
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A.
Crossing the Water
"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.
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B.
City of Bridges
City of Bridges is a nickname for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, highlighting its unusually large number of river-spanning bridges and distinctive topography.
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C.
Burning Bridges
"Burning Bridges" is a 2015 studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi that serves as a transitional release featuring previously unfinished songs and marking their final work with longtime guitarist Richie Sambora.
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D.
The Bridge
The Bridge is an American crime drama television series in which Diane Kruger stars as a brilliant but socially awkward detective investigating cross-border murders on the U.S.–Mexico frontier.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- 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: Facing the Bridge Target entity description: "Facing the Bridge" is a collection of surreal, linguistically playful short stories by Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada that explore themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
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A.
Crossing the Water
"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.
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B.
City of Bridges
City of Bridges is a nickname for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, highlighting its unusually large number of river-spanning bridges and distinctive topography.
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C.
Burning Bridges
"Burning Bridges" is a 2015 studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi that serves as a transitional release featuring previously unfinished songs and marking their final work with longtime guitarist Richie Sambora.
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D.
The Bridge
The Bridge is an American crime drama television series in which Diane Kruger stars as a brilliant but socially awkward detective investigating cross-border murders on the U.S.–Mexico frontier.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Yoko Tawada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
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Japan ⓘ |
| explores |
experience of living between cultures
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instability of identity ⓘ relationship between language and self ⓘ |
| genre |
short stories
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surreal fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationalityContext | Japanese-German ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
German-speaking literary world
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Japanese diaspora in Europe ⓘ |
| hasForm | collection of short stories ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | experimental ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTechnique |
code-switching
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metafictional reflection on language ⓘ |
| hasOriginalAuthorLanguage |
German
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Japanese ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | translated literature ⓘ |
| language |
English
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German ⓘ Japanese ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | linguistically playful ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of multilingual experience
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surreal treatment of everyday life ⓘ |
| theme |
cross-cultural communication
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cultural displacement ⓘ identity ⓘ language ⓘ migration ⓘ translation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Facing the Bridge Description of subject: "Facing the Bridge" is a collection of surreal, linguistically playful short stories by Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada that explore themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
Referenced by (2)
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