1421: The Year China Discovered the World
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"1421: The Year China Discovered the World" is a controversial historical book by Gavin Menzies that argues Chinese fleets explored and mapped much of the world decades before European voyages of discovery.
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| 1421: The Year China Discovered the World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17864740 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Context triple: [Gavin Menzies, notableWork, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World]
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The Discoverers
The Discoverers is a 2012 American comedy-drama film in which Griffin Dunne plays a beleaguered history professor forced into a dysfunctional family road trip that intersects with a group of historical reenactors.
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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
"China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" is a nonfiction book by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn that offers an in-depth, on-the-ground portrait of China's political, social, and economic transformation in the late 20th century.
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C.
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 is a major historical study by John Darwin that examines the rise and transformation of global empires from the early 15th century to the modern era.
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D.
The Chinese Renaissance
The Chinese Renaissance is an influential collection of essays and lectures by Hu Shi that advocates for literary reform, vernacular language, and cultural modernization in early 20th-century China.
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E.
Empires of the Mind
Empires of the Mind is a motivational and self-development book by Denis Waitley that explores how mindset and personal responsibility shape success in the modern world.
- 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: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Target entity description: "1421: The Year China Discovered the World" is a controversial historical book by Gavin Menzies that argues Chinese fleets explored and mapped much of the world decades before European voyages of discovery.
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A.
The Discoverers
The Discoverers is a 2012 American comedy-drama film in which Griffin Dunne plays a beleaguered history professor forced into a dysfunctional family road trip that intersects with a group of historical reenactors.
-
B.
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
"China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" is a nonfiction book by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn that offers an in-depth, on-the-ground portrait of China's political, social, and economic transformation in the late 20th century.
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C.
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 is a major historical study by John Darwin that examines the rise and transformation of global empires from the early 15th century to the modern era.
-
D.
The Chinese Renaissance
The Chinese Renaissance is an influential collection of essays and lectures by Hu Shi that advocates for literary reform, vernacular language, and cultural modernization in early 20th-century China.
-
E.
Empires of the Mind
Empires of the Mind is a motivational and self-development book by Denis Waitley that explores how mindset and personal responsibility shape success in the modern world.
- F. None of above. chosen
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