Laputa
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Laputa is a fictional flying island inhabited by absent-minded intellectuals and scientists in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Laputa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136325 — 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: Laputa Context triple: [Gulliver's Travels, setting, Laputa]
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A.
Kibō no Tō
Kibō no Tō was a short-lived Japanese political party founded in 2017 by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike as a centrist-to-conservative reformist alternative to the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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B.
Land of a Thousand Ponds
Land of a Thousand Ponds is a poetic nickname highlighting Taoyuan City's historic abundance of ponds and irrigation reservoirs in northwestern Taiwan.
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C.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa is a Phaeacian princess in Greek mythology who aids the shipwrecked Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey, embodying hospitality, innocence, and budding romantic possibility.
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D.
Dejima
Dejima was a small artificial island in Nagasaki Bay that served as the Dutch trading post and Japan’s primary window to the Western world during its period of national isolation (sakoku).
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E.
Midori no Madoguchi
Midori no Madoguchi is JR East’s staffed ticket office service in Japan, where passengers can purchase train tickets, make seat reservations, and obtain travel information.
- 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: Laputa Target entity description: Laputa is a fictional flying island inhabited by absent-minded intellectuals and scientists in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels."
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A.
Kibō no Tō
Kibō no Tō was a short-lived Japanese political party founded in 2017 by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike as a centrist-to-conservative reformist alternative to the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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B.
Land of a Thousand Ponds
Land of a Thousand Ponds is a poetic nickname highlighting Taoyuan City's historic abundance of ponds and irrigation reservoirs in northwestern Taiwan.
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C.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa is a Phaeacian princess in Greek mythology who aids the shipwrecked Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey, embodying hospitality, innocence, and budding romantic possibility.
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D.
Dejima
Dejima was a small artificial island in Nagasaki Bay that served as the Dutch trading post and Japan’s primary window to the Western world during its period of national isolation (sakoku).
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E.
Midori no Madoguchi
Midori no Madoguchi is JR East’s staffed ticket office service in Japan, where passengers can purchase train tickets, make seat reservations, and obtain travel information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional island
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fictional location ⓘ flying island ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gulliver's Travels ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Enlightenment-era scientific debate ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| controls | Balnibarbi ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | Jonathan Swift ⓘ |
| describedIn |
novel Gulliver's Travels
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linked to:
Gulliver's Travels
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| fictionalUniverse |
Gulliver's Travels universe
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linked to:
Gulliver's Travels
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| firstAppearance | Gulliver's Travels ⓘ |
| genre | satire ⓘ |
| governedBy | king of Laputa ⓘ |
| governingMethod |
threat of blocking sunlight and rain to Balnibarbi
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threat of crushing cities beneath it ⓘ |
| hasEtymologyTheory | possibly derived from Spanish la puta ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
astronomical observatories
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central adamantine loadstone ⓘ mathematical instruments ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of flying cities ⓘ |
| inhabitants |
absent-minded scholars
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intellectuals ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| inPopularCulture | referenced in discussions of impractical academia ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| locationRelativeToEarth | floating above Balnibarbi ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| movementMechanism | magnetic levitation ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | satirical device ⓘ |
| partOf |
the world of Gulliver's Travels
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linked to:
Gulliver's Travels
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| populationTrait |
absent-minded
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preoccupied with mathematics ⓘ socially inept ⓘ |
| requires | flappers to get inhabitants' attention ⓘ |
| satirizes |
Royal Society-style scientific culture
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impractical intellectualism ⓘ theoretical science ⓘ |
| shape | circular ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
abuse of scientific knowledge for power
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detached intellectualism ⓘ |
| timeOfPublicationContext | 18th century literature ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Jonathan Swift ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1726 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Laputa Description of subject: Laputa is a fictional flying island inhabited by absent-minded intellectuals and scientists in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.