Kandata
E695273
Kandata is the central sinner protagonist in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story “The Spider’s Thread,” known for his brief act of compassion that offers him a chance at salvation from hell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kandata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7826022 — 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: Kandata Context triple: [The Spider’s Thread, featuresCharacter, Kandata]
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A.
Kandan
Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
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B.
Kandas
Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Kasada
Kasada is a traditional Hindu ritual and festival observed by the Tenggerese people of East Java, Indonesia, involving offerings cast into the crater of Mount Bromo.
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D.
Kankanay
Kankanay is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.
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E.
Kanda
Kanda is a historic commercial and educational district in central Tokyo known for its bookstores, universities, and traditional shrines.
- 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: Kandata Target entity description: Kandata is the central sinner protagonist in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story “The Spider’s Thread,” known for his brief act of compassion that offers him a chance at salvation from hell.
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A.
Kandan
Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
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B.
Kandas
Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Kasada
Kasada is a traditional Hindu ritual and festival observed by the Tenggerese people of East Java, Indonesia, involving offerings cast into the crater of Mount Bromo.
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D.
Kankanay
Kankanay is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.
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E.
Kanda
Kanda is a historic commercial and educational district in central Tokyo known for its bookstores, universities, and traditional shrines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Spider’s Thread ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buddha
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hell ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cruel
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greedy ⓘ momentarily compassionate ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese Buddhist literature ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Spider’s Thread ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Spider’s Thread ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAuthor | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ⓘ |
| genre |
Buddhist allegorical fiction
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short story ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | sinner ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | moral example of failed redemption ⓘ |
| notableAction | spared the life of a spider ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| plotSignificance |
his selfishness causes the spider’s thread to break
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his single good deed offers him a chance at salvation ⓘ |
| role | central sinner protagonist ⓘ |
| setting | Buddhist hell ⓘ |
| symbolizes | the conflict between selfishness and compassion ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
Buddhist ethics
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compassion ⓘ egoism ⓘ salvation ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Kandata Description of subject: Kandata is the central sinner protagonist in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story “The Spider’s Thread,” known for his brief act of compassion that offers him a chance at salvation from hell.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.