SANJIESAN LORE / Names and meanings
Keep two fictional things with the same name distinguishable
A setting may contain a house, an office and a district with the same familiar name. Consistent reference wording helps collaborators, as Google’s global-writing guidance explains, but an invented society does not need perfectly unique everyday vocabulary. Distinguish the intended objects in production while allowing believable ambiguity inside the story.
Choose a useful shared name
Invent a district called the Lantern and a meeting room informally called the Lantern as well. Decide who uses each name and when context normally makes the meaning clear. In the author’s reference, give each a qualified label such as Lantern district and Lantern meeting room. Do not rename every occurrence in dialogue if local speakers would naturally use the shorter word without confusion.
Check a sentence outside its context
Read a brief instruction such as meet at the Lantern without the preceding scene. Ask whether a collaborator selecting an illustration would know which place it means. Add the qualified reference in production notes where needed, while keeping the final dialogue appropriate to the characters. A glossary can list both meanings with their separate locations and functions instead of merging them because their written names happen to match.
Make deliberate confusion earn its place
If a character goes to the wrong Lantern, show why their available context led there and what corrects the mistake. Do not rely on the reader being denied a fact every participant already knows. Check that translation preserves the intended ambiguity; a Chinese label may distinguish the two places when the English name does not. Resolve that difference deliberately rather than creating an accidental new destination in one language.