The Garden of Forking Paths
E622054
"The Garden of Forking Paths" is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of labyrinths, time, and multiple realities through a metafictional mystery narrative.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Garden of Forking Paths canonical | 3 |
| The Garden of Forking Paths (section) | 1 |
| The Garden of Forking Paths (story) | 1 |
| the Garden of Forking Ways | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827605 — 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 Garden of Forking Paths Context triple: [Ficciones, hasPart, The Garden of Forking Paths]
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A.
Playing for Time
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
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B.
The Subterraneans
The Subterraneans is a semi-autobiographical Beat Generation novel by Jack Kerouac that portrays a brief, intense love affair set against the bohemian jazz scene of 1950s San Francisco.
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C.
A Garden of Pomegranates
A Garden of Pomegranates is a seminal occult text by Israel Regardie that systematically explores the Qabalistic Tree of Life and its symbolism for students of Western esotericism.
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D.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a landmark modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that presents a disembodied narrator’s fragmented, stream-of-consciousness monologue exploring identity, language, and existence.
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E.
El Aleph
El Aleph is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores infinity, perception, and the nature of reality through the discovery of a point in space that contains all other points.
- 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 Garden of Forking Paths Target entity description: "The Garden of Forking Paths" is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of labyrinths, time, and multiple realities through a metafictional mystery narrative.
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A.
Playing for Time
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
-
B.
The Subterraneans
The Subterraneans is a semi-autobiographical Beat Generation novel by Jack Kerouac that portrays a brief, intense love affair set against the bohemian jazz scene of 1950s San Francisco.
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C.
A Garden of Pomegranates
A Garden of Pomegranates is a seminal occult text by Israel Regardie that systematically explores the Qabalistic Tree of Life and its symbolism for students of Western esotericism.
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D.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a landmark modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that presents a disembodied narrator’s fragmented, stream-of-consciousness monologue exploring identity, language, and existence.
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E.
El Aleph
El Aleph is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores infinity, perception, and the nature of reality through the discovery of a point in space that contains all other points.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
metafictional narrative
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short story ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Stephen Albert
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Ts’ui Pên ⓘ Yu Tsun ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (collection)
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linked to:
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan
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| genre |
metafiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
allegory of nonlinear time
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metaphor for the structure of the universe ⓘ reflection on narrative choices ⓘ |
| influenced |
hypertext fiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ theory of branching timelines in fiction ⓘ |
| laterIncludedIn | Ficciones ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
modernism
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precursor to postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Yu Tsun ⓘ |
| motif |
book within a book
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forking paths ⓘ labyrinth ⓘ |
| narrativeForm |
first-person narrative
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frame narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early fictional treatment of multiple timelines
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labyrinthine narrative structure ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ⓘ |
| partOf | Ficciones ⓘ |
| plotElement |
coded message
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espionage ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| setting |
England
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World War I ⓘ |
| theme |
determinism
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free will ⓘ infinity ⓘ interpretation ⓘ labyrinths ⓘ literary labyrinth ⓘ multiple realities ⓘ time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: The Garden of Forking Paths Description of subject: "The Garden of Forking Paths" is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of labyrinths, time, and multiple realities through a metafictional mystery narrative.
Referenced by (6)
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