Communicating Doors
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Communicating Doors is a time-traveling comic thriller play by Alan Ayckbourn that blends farce, suspense, and science fiction as it follows a dominatrix who uses a mysterious hotel door to move between decades and try to prevent multiple murders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Communicating Doors canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8629855 — 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: Communicating Doors Context triple: [Alan Ayckbourn, notableWork, Communicating Doors]
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A.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
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B.
OpenDoor
OpenDoor is a real estate technology company that pioneered the iBuyer model, using data-driven algorithms to make instant cash offers on homes and streamline the buying and selling process.
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C.
North Doors
North Doors are the renowned bronze doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni, celebrated for their intricate Renaissance reliefs and craftsmanship.
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D.
Bridge and Door
"Bridge and Door" is a seminal philosophical essay by Georg Simmel that explores how spatial forms like bridges and doors symbolize fundamental human processes of connection, separation, and boundary-making.
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E.
South Doors
South Doors are a renowned set of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, celebrated for their intricate relief panels and significant role in early Renaissance art.
- 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: Communicating Doors Target entity description: Communicating Doors is a time-traveling comic thriller play by Alan Ayckbourn that blends farce, suspense, and science fiction as it follows a dominatrix who uses a mysterious hotel door to move between decades and try to prevent multiple murders.
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A.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
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B.
OpenDoor
OpenDoor is a real estate technology company that pioneered the iBuyer model, using data-driven algorithms to make instant cash offers on homes and streamline the buying and selling process.
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C.
North Doors
North Doors are the renowned bronze doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni, celebrated for their intricate Renaissance reliefs and craftsmanship.
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D.
Bridge and Door
"Bridge and Door" is a seminal philosophical essay by Georg Simmel that explores how spatial forms like bridges and doors symbolize fundamental human processes of connection, separation, and boundary-making.
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E.
South Doors
South Doors are a renowned set of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, celebrated for their intricate relief panels and significant role in early Renaissance art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic thriller play
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science fiction play ⓘ stage play ⓘ time-travel play ⓘ |
| author | Alan Ayckbourn ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dramaticConflict | preventing multiple murders through time travel ⓘ |
| form | full-length play ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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farce ⓘ science fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist |
Julian
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Reece ⓘ |
| hasElement |
door-based stage mechanics
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mystery ⓘ plot twists ⓘ slapstick ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
fate and destiny
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murder ⓘ redemption ⓘ time travel ⓘ violence against women ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
changing the past
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consequences of choices ⓘ female solidarity ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult theatre audiences ⓘ |
| intendedMedium | live theatre ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Poopay ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | dominatrix ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | time-traveling hotel door ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining farce with time travel
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strong roles for women ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Alan Ayckbourn plays ⓘ |
| protagonistGoal | to save the other women from being killed ⓘ |
| setting | London hotel suite ⓘ |
| structure | nonlinear timeline ⓘ |
| theatricalStyle |
comic suspense
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fast-paced farce ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1970s
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1990s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| usesDevice | mysterious communicating door ⓘ |
| writer | Alan Ayckbourn ⓘ |
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: Communicating Doors Description of subject: Communicating Doors is a time-traveling comic thriller play by Alan Ayckbourn that blends farce, suspense, and science fiction as it follows a dominatrix who uses a mysterious hotel door to move between decades and try to prevent multiple murders.
Referenced by (1)
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