The Gates of the World
E725197
The Gates of the World is a significant location in William Morris’s fantasy novel "The Well at the World’s End," marking a pivotal threshold in the hero’s journey through its medieval-romance landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Gates of the World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8326337 — 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 Gates of the World Context triple: [The Well at the World’s End, hasPart, The Gates of the World]
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A.
Gates of the Mountains
Gates of the Mountains is a dramatic limestone canyon and popular scenic and recreational area along the Missouri River in Montana, famed for being named by Meriwether Lewis during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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B.
The Gate
The Gate is a 1910 novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki that quietly explores themes of guilt, marriage, and spiritual searching in Meiji-era Japan.
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C.
The Gate
The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
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D.
Puerta de Tierra
Puerta de Tierra is a historic coastal neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as a governmental and institutional hub just outside Old San Juan.
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E.
Gates of Eden
"Gates of Eden" is a surreal, poetic song by Bob Dylan that explores themes of illusion, truth, and spiritual searching.
- 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 Gates of the World Target entity description: The Gates of the World is a significant location in William Morris’s fantasy novel "The Well at the World’s End," marking a pivotal threshold in the hero’s journey through its medieval-romance landscape.
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A.
Gates of the Mountains
Gates of the Mountains is a dramatic limestone canyon and popular scenic and recreational area along the Missouri River in Montana, famed for being named by Meriwether Lewis during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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B.
The Gate
The Gate is a 1910 novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki that quietly explores themes of guilt, marriage, and spiritual searching in Meiji-era Japan.
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C.
The Gate
The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
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D.
Puerta de Tierra
Puerta de Tierra is a historic coastal neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as a governmental and institutional hub just outside Old San Juan.
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E.
Gates of Eden
"Gates of Eden" is a surreal, poetic song by Bob Dylan that explores themes of illusion, truth, and spiritual searching.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
fantasy novel
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medieval romance ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Well at the World’s End ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Ralph of Upmeads ⓘ |
| belongsToWorkType | romance-quest narrative ⓘ |
| countryOfAuthor | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Morris ⓘ |
| depicts | boundary between familiar lands and farther unknown regions ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | imaginary place ⓘ |
| hasSymbolism | entry into a wider, perilous world ⓘ |
| hasThemeRelation |
quest and pilgrimage
ⓘ
threshold-crossing ⓘ transition between worlds or regions ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | key symbolic location in the novel’s landscape ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | late 19th-century fantasy literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
The Well at the World’s End, Book I
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linked to:
The Well at the World’s End
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| narrativeFunction | pivotal threshold in the hero’s journey ⓘ |
| partOf |
the quest for the Well at the World’s End
ⓘ
linked to:
The Well at the World’s End
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| roleInPlot | major waypoint on the protagonist’s quest ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | pseudo-medieval world ⓘ |
| universe | fictional world of The Well at the World’s End ⓘ |
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 Gates of the World Description of subject: The Gates of the World is a significant location in William Morris’s fantasy novel "The Well at the World’s End," marking a pivotal threshold in the hero’s journey through its medieval-romance landscape.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.