Modern Gods
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Modern Gods is a novel by Northern Irish writer Nick Laird that intertwines family drama with explorations of faith, violence, and modern identity across Northern Ireland and a South Pacific island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modern Gods canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9683538 — 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: Modern Gods Context triple: [Nick Laird, notableWork, Modern Gods]
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A.
Story for the Gods
"Story for the Gods" is a popular Nigerian hip-hop/afropop song by rapper Olamide, known for its catchy beat and streetwise lyrics.
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B.
Age of the Gods
Age of the Gods is the primordial mythological era in Japanese Shinto tradition during which deities emerged and the foundations of the world and imperial lineage were established.
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C.
Lord of the Gods
Lord of the Gods is a lofty divine title signifying supreme authority and rulership over all other deities in a pantheon.
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D.
Nation of Gods and Earths
The Nation of Gods and Earths is a cultural and spiritual movement that emerged from the Five-Percent Nation, emphasizing Black empowerment, self-knowledge, and esoteric interpretations of Islam and mathematics.
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E.
Living with the Gods
Living with the Gods is a cultural history book (and related BBC radio series) by Neil MacGregor that explores how religious beliefs and rituals have shaped human societies across time and place.
- 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: Modern Gods Target entity description: Modern Gods is a novel by Northern Irish writer Nick Laird that intertwines family drama with explorations of faith, violence, and modern identity across Northern Ireland and a South Pacific island.
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A.
Story for the Gods
"Story for the Gods" is a popular Nigerian hip-hop/afropop song by rapper Olamide, known for its catchy beat and streetwise lyrics.
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B.
Age of the Gods
Age of the Gods is the primordial mythological era in Japanese Shinto tradition during which deities emerged and the foundations of the world and imperial lineage were established.
-
C.
Lord of the Gods
Lord of the Gods is a lofty divine title signifying supreme authority and rulership over all other deities in a pantheon.
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D.
Nation of Gods and Earths
The Nation of Gods and Earths is a cultural and spiritual movement that emerged from the Five-Percent Nation, emphasizing Black empowerment, self-knowledge, and esoteric interpretations of Islam and mathematics.
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E.
Living with the Gods
Living with the Gods is a cultural history book (and related BBC radio series) by Neil MacGregor that explores how religious beliefs and rituals have shaped human societies across time and place.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Nick Laird ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Northern Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Nick Laird ⓘ |
| follows | Nick Laird's earlier novels ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary fiction
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family saga ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Northern Irish ⓘ |
| hasForm | long-form novel ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | multi-perspective narrative ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
colonial legacy
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ globalization ⓘ religion ⓘ sectarian conflict ⓘ |
| hasTemporalSetting | contemporary period ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
faith
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modern identity ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| setting |
Northern Ireland
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South Pacific island ⓘ |
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: Modern Gods Description of subject: Modern Gods is a novel by Northern Irish writer Nick Laird that intertwines family drama with explorations of faith, violence, and modern identity across Northern Ireland and a South Pacific island.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.