The Beginning Place
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The Beginning Place is a fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows two young adults who discover and share access to a mysterious otherworld that transforms their understanding of themselves and their reality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Beginning Place canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3799282 — 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: The Beginning Place Context triple: [Ursula K. Le Guin, notableWork, The Beginning Place]
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A.
The Beginning
The Beginning is a studio album by American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas that continues their dance-pop and electronic sound following the success of The E.N.D.
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B.
The Beginning
"The Beginning" is a song by John Legend from his R&B album "Love in the Future."
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C.
The Beginning
"The Beginning" is a song by Seal, featured as a single from his debut self-titled album.
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D.
Where It All Begins
"Where It All Begins" is a 1994 studio album by the Allman Brothers Band that blends Southern rock, blues, and jam-band improvisation and is noted for revitalizing the group in the 1990s.
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E.
Lord of Beginnings
Lord of Beginnings is an epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the remover of obstacles and patron of new ventures and auspicious starts.
- 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: The Beginning Place Target entity description: The Beginning Place is a fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows two young adults who discover and share access to a mysterious otherworld that transforms their understanding of themselves and their reality.
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A.
The Beginning
The Beginning is a studio album by American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas that continues their dance-pop and electronic sound following the success of The E.N.D.
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B.
The Beginning
"The Beginning" is a song by John Legend from his R&B album "Love in the Future."
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C.
The Beginning
"The Beginning" is a song by Seal, featured as a single from his debut self-titled album.
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D.
Where It All Begins
"Where It All Begins" is a 1994 studio album by the Allman Brothers Band that blends Southern rock, blues, and jam-band improvisation and is noted for revitalizing the group in the 1990s.
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E.
Lord of Beginnings
Lord of Beginnings is an epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the remover of obstacles and patron of new ventures and auspicious starts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Ursula K. Le Guin ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
coming of age
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escape and return ⓘ identity ⓘ relationship dynamics ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ the boundary between realities ⓘ transition to adulthood ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
dual worlds
ⓘ
rites of passage ⓘ thresholds ⓘ time distortion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| explores |
economic and social precarity
ⓘ
emotional isolation ⓘ gender roles ⓘ tension between fantasy and reality ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
mysterious otherworld
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mythic landscape ⓘ quest motif ⓘ shared portal ⓘ |
| featuresRelationship | two young adult protagonists ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
portal fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
Threshold
ⓘ
Threshold: A Novel ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Michael Mariano ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-690-03935-0 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Hugh Rogers
ⓘ
Irene Pannis ⓘ |
| hasNoDirectSequels | true ⓘ |
| hasOtherworldSetting | Tembreabrezi ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | 200–250 pages ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistAgeRange | late adolescence ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | standalone novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorBodyOfWork | Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography ⓘ |
| publisher | Thomas Y. Crowell ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary United States ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: The Beginning Place Description of subject: The Beginning Place is a fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that follows two young adults who discover and share access to a mysterious otherworld that transforms their understanding of themselves and their reality.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.