Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator
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"Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator" is a key climactic event in Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Gunga Din,” highlighting the water-bearer’s bravery and self-sacrifice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6099768 — 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: Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator Context triple: [Gunga Din, plotElement, Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator]
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oath of Arjuna to kill Jayadratha
The oath of Arjuna to kill Jayadratha is a pivotal Mahabharata episode in which Arjuna vows to slay Jayadratha by sunset the next day to avenge his son Abhimanyu’s death, dramatically shaping the course of the Kurukshetra war.
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B.
Dinshaw Wacha
Dinshaw Wacha was an early Indian nationalist leader and prominent Parsi political figure who played a key role in the formative years of the Indian National Congress.
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C.
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
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D.
Azad’s last stand
Azad’s last stand refers to the final armed confrontation in 1931 at Allahabad’s Alfred Park in which Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad was killed while resisting British colonial forces.
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E.
Karna–Arjuna duel
The Karna–Arjuna duel is the climactic and most celebrated single combat of the Mahabharata, pitting two of its greatest archers and estranged brothers against each other on the Kurukshetra battlefield.
- 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: Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator Target entity description: "Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator" is a key climactic event in Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Gunga Din,” highlighting the water-bearer’s bravery and self-sacrifice.
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A.
oath of Arjuna to kill Jayadratha
The oath of Arjuna to kill Jayadratha is a pivotal Mahabharata episode in which Arjuna vows to slay Jayadratha by sunset the next day to avenge his son Abhimanyu’s death, dramatically shaping the course of the Kurukshetra war.
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B.
Dinshaw Wacha
Dinshaw Wacha was an early Indian nationalist leader and prominent Parsi political figure who played a key role in the formative years of the Indian National Congress.
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C.
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
-
D.
Azad’s last stand
Azad’s last stand refers to the final armed confrontation in 1931 at Allahabad’s Alfred Park in which Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad was killed while resisting British colonial forces.
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E.
Karna–Arjuna duel
The Karna–Arjuna duel is the climactic and most celebrated single combat of the Mahabharata, pitting two of its greatest archers and estranged brothers against each other on the Kurukshetra battlefield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalEvent
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literaryEvent ⓘ poeticClimax ⓘ |
| audienceImpact |
challenges reader’s view of heroism
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elicits sympathy for Gunga Din ⓘ |
| causeOfEvent |
Gunga Din’s decision to rescue the wounded narrator
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battle situation ⓘ |
| characterRoleOfGungaDin |
servant to British soldiers
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water-bearer ⓘ |
| characterStatusOfGungaDin | Indian native ⓘ |
| creator | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Gunga Din (poem) ⓘ |
| depictsAction |
Gunga Din being shot or otherwise fatally wounded
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Gunga Din carrying water under fire ⓘ Gunga Din rescuing the narrator from danger ⓘ |
| emotionalTone |
heroic
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tragic ⓘ |
| genre |
imperial literature
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narrative poetry ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | poem ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leadsTo | narrator’s famous line You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
irony of a despised servant dying to save his abuser
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pathos ⓘ |
| location | colonial India (fictionalized setting) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Gunga Din ⓘ |
| moral | true worth is measured by courage and sacrifice, not rank or race ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
climax
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turning point in narrator’s moral judgment ⓘ |
| partOf | narrative of the poem Gunga Din ⓘ |
| result |
death of Gunga Din
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narrator’s posthumous praise of Gunga Din ⓘ survival of the narrator ⓘ |
| secondaryCharacter | British soldier narrator ⓘ |
| symbolism |
critique of superficial imperial values
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nobility of the colonized subject ⓘ selfless service ⓘ |
| theme |
bravery
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class and racial hierarchy ⓘ heroism ⓘ moral superiority of the colonized servant over the colonizer ⓘ self-sacrifice ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction |
British Raj
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linked to:
British India
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator Description of subject: "Gunga Din is mortally wounded while saving the narrator" is a key climactic event in Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Gunga Din,” highlighting the water-bearer’s bravery and self-sacrifice.
Referenced by (1)
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subject linked to:
poem "Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling