This Scheming World
E414603
This Scheming World is a satirical 17th-century Japanese novel by Ihara Saikaku that portrays the greed, corruption, and moral decay of urban merchant society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Scheming World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4138556 — 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: This Scheming World Context triple: [Ihara Saikaku, notableWork, This Scheming World]
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A.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
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B.
The World Inside
The World Inside is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a densely populated future Earth where humanity lives in vast urban towers and embraces extreme social and sexual freedom.
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C.
This World
"This World" is a prominent musical track from the score of the science-fiction television series *Westworld*.
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D.
The Masterplan
"The Masterplan" is a 1995 B-side compilation track by British rock band Oasis, widely regarded by fans and critics as one of their finest songs despite initially not appearing on a studio album.
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E.
A World Between
A World Between is a science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that explores political manipulation and media control on a distant, idealistic colony world.
- 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: This Scheming World Target entity description: This Scheming World is a satirical 17th-century Japanese novel by Ihara Saikaku that portrays the greed, corruption, and moral decay of urban merchant society.
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A.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
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B.
The World Inside
The World Inside is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a densely populated future Earth where humanity lives in vast urban towers and embraces extreme social and sexual freedom.
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C.
This World
"This World" is a prominent musical track from the score of the science-fiction television series *Westworld*.
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D.
The Masterplan
"The Masterplan" is a 1995 B-side compilation track by British rock band Oasis, widely regarded by fans and critics as one of their finest songs despite initially not appearing on a studio album.
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E.
A World Between
A World Between is a science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that explores political manipulation and media control on a distant, idealistic colony world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Ihara Saikaku ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Edo-period merchant culture ⓘ |
| depicts |
corruption
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greed ⓘ moral decay ⓘ urban merchant society ⓘ |
| examines |
conflict between profit and morality
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social climbing ⓘ the instability of wealth ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
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ukiyo-zōshi ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
commercial culture
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hypocrisy ⓘ materialism ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | urban commoners ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | ukiyo-zōshi ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 17th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
merchants
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townspeople ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| partOf | early modern Japanese literature ⓘ |
| portrays |
merchant ethics
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moneylending practices ⓘ pleasure quarters ⓘ urban life in Osaka ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Edo period ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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ironic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
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: This Scheming World Description of subject: This Scheming World is a satirical 17th-century Japanese novel by Ihara Saikaku that portrays the greed, corruption, and moral decay of urban merchant society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.