The World (《人世间》)
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The World (《人世间》) is a widely acclaimed contemporary Chinese novel that chronicles the lives and struggles of ordinary people across several decades of social and political change in China.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The World (《人世间》) canonical | 1 |
| 《人世间》 | 1 |
| 人世间 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3308621 — 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: The World (《人世间》) Context triple: [Liang Xiaosheng, notableWork, The World (《人世间》)]
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A.
Ordinary World
"Ordinary World" is a song by Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*, known for its reflective, melodic style and introspective lyrics.
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B.
All the Light We Cannot See (miniseries)
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2023 Netflix limited series adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning World War II novel, following the intersecting lives of a blind French girl and a German boy in occupied France.
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C.
Les Misérables (2018 miniseries)
Les Misérables (2018 miniseries) is a BBC television adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, featuring David Oyelowo among its principal cast.
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D.
News of the World
News of the World is a 2020 American Western drama film in which Tom Hanks plays a Civil War veteran who travels across Texas reading newspapers to townspeople while escorting a young girl to her last remaining family.
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E.
This World
"This World" is a prominent musical track from the score of the science-fiction television series *Westworld*.
- 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: The World (《人世间》) Target entity description: The World (《人世间》) is a widely acclaimed contemporary Chinese novel that chronicles the lives and struggles of ordinary people across several decades of social and political change in China.
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A.
Ordinary World
"Ordinary World" is a song by Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*, known for its reflective, melodic style and introspective lyrics.
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B.
All the Light We Cannot See (miniseries)
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2023 Netflix limited series adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning World War II novel, following the intersecting lives of a blind French girl and a German boy in occupied France.
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C.
Les Misérables (2018 miniseries)
Les Misérables (2018 miniseries) is a BBC television adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, featuring David Oyelowo among its principal cast.
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D.
News of the World
News of the World is a 2020 American Western drama film in which Tom Hanks plays a Civil War veteran who travels across Texas reading newspapers to townspeople while escorting a young girl to her last remaining family.
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E.
This World
"This World" is a prominent musical track from the score of the science-fiction television series *Westworld*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese novel
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contemporary literature work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | represents experiences of common people during reform era ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | contemporary China ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
impact of social reforms
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intergenerational relationships ⓘ lives of ordinary people ⓘ struggles of working-class families ⓘ |
| genre |
family saga
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realist fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | television drama adaptation ⓘ |
| influenced | public discussion of ordinary people’s lives in modern China ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary Chinese literature ⓘ |
| literaryReputation | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | realism ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
family life
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ordinary people ⓘ political change in China ⓘ social change in China ⓘ urbanization in China ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | several decades ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of historical transitions through everyday stories
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detailed characterization of common people ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| portrays |
economic reforms and their human impact
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political changes affecting everyday life ⓘ social transformations in contemporary China ⓘ |
| reception |
popular among Chinese readers
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praised for detailed social history ⓘ praised for realistic depiction of ordinary life ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
early 21st century China
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late 20th century China ⓘ |
| settingPlace | China ⓘ |
| structure | multi-decade family chronicle ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
family bonds
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historical memory ⓘ individual fate and national destiny ⓘ resilience ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| workType | long-form narrative ⓘ |
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: The World (《人世间》) Description of subject: The World (《人世间》) is a widely acclaimed contemporary Chinese novel that chronicles the lives and struggles of ordinary people across several decades of social and political change in China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mao Dun Literature Prize for The World (《人世间》)
linked to: The World (《人世间》)
subject linked to:
Mao Dun Literature Prize for The World (《人世间》)
linked to: The World (《人世间》)