House of the Sleeping Beauties

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literary work novella

House of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata that explores aging, desire, and loneliness through an eerie establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
House of the Sleeping Beauties canonical	1
The House of the Sleeping Beauties (film)	1
The House of the Sleeping Beauties (stage adaptation)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10454153 — 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: House of the Sleeping Beauties
Context triple: [Kawabata Yasunari, notableWork, House of the Sleeping Beauties]

A. Sleeping Beauties
"Sleeping Beauties" is a horror-fantasy novel co-written by Owen King and his father Stephen King that imagines a world where women fall into a mysterious sleep, triggering societal collapse and conflict.
B. The Enchanted Cottage
The Enchanted Cottage is a romantic fantasy film best known for featuring silent-era star Billie Dove in a poignant tale of love transformed by inner beauty and perception.
C. House of the Deer
House of the Deer is a luxurious Roman seaside villa in Herculaneum, renowned for its elegant architecture, marble sculptures, and well-preserved frescoes buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
D. The House of All Sorts
The House of All Sorts is a semi-autobiographical book by Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr, depicting her life as a landlady and her observations of people and society in early 20th-century British Columbia.
E. Hall of Lilies
The Hall of Lilies is an ornately decorated chamber in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, renowned for its rich frescoes and symbolic fleur-de-lis motifs celebrating the city’s civic identity.
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: House of the Sleeping Beauties
Target entity description: House of the Sleeping Beauties is a novella by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata that explores aging, desire, and loneliness through an eerie establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women.

A. Sleeping Beauties
"Sleeping Beauties" is a horror-fantasy novel co-written by Owen King and his father Stephen King that imagines a world where women fall into a mysterious sleep, triggering societal collapse and conflict.
B. The Enchanted Cottage
The Enchanted Cottage is a romantic fantasy film best known for featuring silent-era star Billie Dove in a poignant tale of love transformed by inner beauty and perception.
C. House of the Deer
House of the Deer is a luxurious Roman seaside villa in Herculaneum, renowned for its elegant architecture, marble sculptures, and well-preserved frescoes buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
D. The House of All Sorts
The House of All Sorts is a semi-autobiographical book by Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr, depicting her life as a landlady and her observations of people and society in early 20th-century British Columbia.
E. Hall of Lilies
The Hall of Lilies is an ornately decorated chamber in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, renowned for its rich frescoes and symbolic fleur-de-lis motifs celebrating the city’s civic identity.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary work ⓘ novella ⓘ
author	Yasunari Kawabata ⓘ linked to: Kawabata Yasunari
centralMotif	old age ⓘ silence ⓘ sleep ⓘ youth ⓘ
contains	dreamlike atmosphere ⓘ symbolic imagery ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Japan ⓘ
explores	moral ambiguity ⓘ the boundary between eros and thanatos ⓘ the fear of impotence ⓘ the objectification of women ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ the psychology of old age ⓘ voyeurism ⓘ
features	an unnamed madam who runs the house ⓘ strict rules forbidding touching the girls sexually ⓘ
firstPublicationForm	serialized fiction ⓘ
genre	erotic fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ
hasAdaptation	The House of the Sleeping Beauties (film) ⓘ linked to: House of the Sleeping Beauties The House of the Sleeping Beauties (stage adaptation) ⓘ linked to: House of the Sleeping Beauties
hasInfluenceOn	adaptations in world cinema ⓘ later Japanese erotic literature ⓘ
includedIn	Yasunari Kawabata’s body of work cited for the Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ
literaryForm	prose ⓘ
literaryMovement	modernist literature ⓘ
mainTheme	aging ⓘ death ⓘ desire ⓘ loneliness ⓘ memory ⓘ
narrativePerspective	third-person ⓘ
notableFor	its disturbing and lyrical style ⓘ its portrayal of eroticism without physical consummation ⓘ
originalLanguage	Japanese ⓘ
protagonist	Eguchi ⓘ
relatedWork	Snow Country ⓘ The Sound of the Mountain ⓘ Thousand Cranes ⓘ
setting	an establishment where old men sleep beside drugged young women ⓘ
tone	eerie ⓘ introspective ⓘ melancholic ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kawabata Yasunari → notableWork → House of the Sleeping Beauties ⓘ

House of the Sleeping Beauties → hasAdaptation → The House of the Sleeping Beauties (film) ⓘ

linked to: House of the Sleeping Beauties

House of the Sleeping Beauties → hasAdaptation → The House of the Sleeping Beauties (stage adaptation) ⓘ