Hash
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"Hash" is a darkly comic novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that explores memory, identity, and rural life through the story of two men obsessively disputing who makes the better potato hash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hash canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8656643 — 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: Hash Context triple: [Torgny Lindgren, notable work, Hash]
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A.
MD5
MD5 is a widely known but now cryptographically broken 128-bit hash function formerly used for checksums, data integrity, and security applications.
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B.
SHA-1
SHA-1 is a now-legacy 160-bit cryptographic hash function once widely used for data integrity and digital signatures but today considered insecure due to practical collision attacks.
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C.
Hash Pipe
"Hash Pipe" is a hard-rocking, riff-driven single by American rock band Weezer, known for its gritty sound and controversial lyrics.
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D.
SHA-256
SHA-256 is a widely used cryptographic hash function from the SHA-2 family that produces a 256-bit hash value for securing data integrity and authentication.
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E.
SHA
SHA is the IATA airport code for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, a major domestic and regional aviation hub serving Shanghai, China.
- 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: Hash Target entity description: "Hash" is a darkly comic novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that explores memory, identity, and rural life through the story of two men obsessively disputing who makes the better potato hash.
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A.
MD5
MD5 is a widely known but now cryptographically broken 128-bit hash function formerly used for checksums, data integrity, and security applications.
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B.
SHA-1
SHA-1 is a now-legacy 160-bit cryptographic hash function once widely used for data integrity and digital signatures but today considered insecure due to practical collision attacks.
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C.
Hash Pipe
"Hash Pipe" is a hard-rocking, riff-driven single by American rock band Weezer, known for its gritty sound and controversial lyrics.
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D.
SHA-256
SHA-256 is a widely used cryptographic hash function from the SHA-2 family that produces a 256-bit hash value for securing data integrity and authentication.
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E.
SHA
SHA is the IATA airport code for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, a major domestic and regional aviation hub serving Shanghai, China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Torgny Lindgren ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| explores |
construction of personal identity
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everyday life in rural communities ⓘ obsession ⓘ rivalry ⓘ the unreliability of memory ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
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dark comedy ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | male protagonists ⓘ |
| hasFoodMotif | potato hash ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
culinary rivalry
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storytelling and recollection ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
darkly comic tone
ⓘ
ironic narration ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
identity
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memory ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | two men disputing who makes the better potato hash ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| setting | rural Sweden ⓘ |
| workOf | Torgny Lindgren ⓘ |
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: Hash Description of subject: "Hash" is a darkly comic novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that explores memory, identity, and rural life through the story of two men obsessively disputing who makes the better potato hash.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.