The Call
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The Call is a historical novel by American author John Hersey that follows a fictional missionary’s life in China, exploring themes of faith, cultural encounter, and moral responsibility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Call canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6412769 — 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 Call Context triple: [John Hersey, notableWork, The Call]
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A.
A Call from Heaven
"A Call from Heaven" is a 17th-century religious work by Puritan minister Increase Mather that exhorts readers to piety and spiritual preparation for death and the afterlife.
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B.
The Call (2013 film)
The Call is a 2013 American thriller film starring Halle Berry as a 911 operator who becomes entangled in a life-or-death kidnapping case.
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C.
Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead is John le Carré’s debut espionage novel that introduces the introspective British intelligence officer George Smiley in a bleak, psychologically driven Cold War mystery.
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D.
Heed The Call
"Heed The Call" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s 1970 album *Tell It All Brother*.
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E.
The Final Call
The Final Call is a weekly newspaper that serves as the official media outlet of the Nation of Islam, featuring news, commentary, and religious teachings aligned with its perspectives.
- 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 Call Target entity description: The Call is a historical novel by American author John Hersey that follows a fictional missionary’s life in China, exploring themes of faith, cultural encounter, and moral responsibility.
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A.
A Call from Heaven
"A Call from Heaven" is a 17th-century religious work by Puritan minister Increase Mather that exhorts readers to piety and spiritual preparation for death and the afterlife.
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B.
The Call (2013 film)
The Call is a 2013 American thriller film starring Halle Berry as a 911 operator who becomes entangled in a life-or-death kidnapping case.
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C.
Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead is John le Carré’s debut espionage novel that introduces the introspective British intelligence officer George Smiley in a bleak, psychologically driven Cold War mystery.
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D.
Heed The Call
"Heed The Call" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s 1970 album *Tell It All Brother*.
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E.
The Final Call
The Final Call is a weekly newspaper that serves as the official media outlet of the Nation of Islam, featuring news, commentary, and religious teachings aligned with its perspectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | John Hersey ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| exploresTopic |
cross-cultural relations
ⓘ
ethics of cultural influence ⓘ missionary work ⓘ religion in China ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
religious fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasFictionalProtagonist | fictional missionary in China ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose narrative ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | Western viewpoint on China ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Christian missions in China
ⓘ
linked to:
China Inland Mission
|
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
Christian faith
ⓘ
cultural encounter ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | missionary ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fictionalized biography ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| settingLocation | China ⓘ |
| workOf | John Hersey ⓘ |
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 Call Description of subject: The Call is a historical novel by American author John Hersey that follows a fictional missionary’s life in China, exploring themes of faith, cultural encounter, and moral responsibility.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.