War Trash
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War Trash is a historical novel by Ha Jin that follows a Chinese soldier’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| War Trash canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12944632 — 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: War Trash Context triple: [Ha Jin, notableWork, War Trash]
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A.
Scrapyard
Scrapyard is a small, fast-paced multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set in a cluttered aircraft graveyard that encourages close-quarters combat and flanking maneuvers.
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B.
Scum
Scum is a gritty 1979 British crime drama film depicting the brutal realities of life inside a borstal (youth detention center), noted for its stark violence and Ray Winstone’s powerful performance.
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C.
W.A.S.T.E.
W.A.S.T.E. is a mysterious underground postal system and countercultural network that plays a central symbolic role in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49*.
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D.
Scrap Heap
Scrap Heap is a track featured on the album "The Sound in Your Mind" by country musician Willie Nelson.
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E.
The Crash
The Crash is a 1928 American drama film, best known as a silent-era production featuring actor William Janney.
- 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: War Trash Target entity description: War Trash is a historical novel by Ha Jin that follows a Chinese soldier’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
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A.
Scrapyard
Scrapyard is a small, fast-paced multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set in a cluttered aircraft graveyard that encourages close-quarters combat and flanking maneuvers.
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B.
Scum
Scum is a gritty 1979 British crime drama film depicting the brutal realities of life inside a borstal (youth detention center), noted for its stark violence and Ray Winstone’s powerful performance.
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C.
W.A.S.T.E.
W.A.S.T.E. is a mysterious underground postal system and countercultural network that plays a central symbolic role in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49*.
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D.
Scrap Heap
Scrap Heap is a track featured on the album "The Sound in Your Mind" by country musician Willie Nelson.
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E.
The Crash
The Crash is a 1928 American drama film, best known as a silent-era production featuring actor William Janney.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Ha Jin ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Chinese-American ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
historical fiction
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political novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780375422761 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryAward | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Yu Yuan ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 368 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pantheon Books ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Korean Peninsula
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prisoner-of-war camps ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Korean War ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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ideology ⓘ loyalty ⓘ political indoctrination ⓘ prisoners of war ⓘ survival ⓘ war ⓘ |
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: War Trash Description of subject: War Trash is a historical novel by Ha Jin that follows a Chinese soldier’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.