Nova Mob
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Nova Mob is a fictional criminal organization of intergalactic villains featured in William S. Burroughs’ novel "Nova Express."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nova Mob canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12885215 — 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: Nova Mob Context triple: [Nova Express, hasCharacter, Nova Mob]
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A.
Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship was an American pop-punk/electropop band known for its danceable, synth-driven sound and humorous, party-themed lyrics, rising to mainstream fame in the late 2000s.
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B.
Vagos
Vagos is a coastal municipality in central Portugal known for its beaches, dunes, and integration into the Aveiro region’s lagoon landscape.
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C.
Anvil
Anvil is Ubisoft's proprietary game engine used to power many of its large-scale open-world titles, particularly in the Assassin's Creed series.
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D.
The Duhks
The Duhks are a Canadian folk-fusion band known for blending bluegrass, Celtic, gospel, and world music influences into a contemporary acoustic sound.
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E.
Exody
Exody is a large-scale orchestral composition by British contemporary composer Harrison Birtwistle, noted for its complex textures and dramatic, ritualistic atmosphere.
- 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: Nova Mob Target entity description: Nova Mob is a fictional criminal organization of intergalactic villains featured in William S. Burroughs’ novel "Nova Express."
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A.
Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship was an American pop-punk/electropop band known for its danceable, synth-driven sound and humorous, party-themed lyrics, rising to mainstream fame in the late 2000s.
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B.
Vagos
Vagos is a coastal municipality in central Portugal known for its beaches, dunes, and integration into the Aveiro region’s lagoon landscape.
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C.
Anvil
Anvil is Ubisoft's proprietary game engine used to power many of its large-scale open-world titles, particularly in the Assassin's Creed series.
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D.
The Duhks
The Duhks are a Canadian folk-fusion band known for blending bluegrass, Celtic, gospel, and world music influences into a contemporary acoustic sound.
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E.
Exody
Exody is a large-scale orchestral composition by British contemporary composer Harrison Birtwistle, noted for its complex textures and dramatic, ritualistic atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional criminal organization
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fictional organization ⓘ literary fictional entity ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Nova Express ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Nova Trilogy
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linked to:
The Nova Trilogy
|
| associatedWith |
addiction
ⓘ
control ⓘ cosmic conspiracy ⓘ media manipulation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| describedAs | intergalactic villains ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
intergalactic crime
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language as a virus ⓘ political repression ⓘ social control ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOfFictionalUniverse |
William S. Burroughs mythos
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linked to:
Burroughs mythos
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| narrativeFunction | symbol of oppressive power structures ⓘ |
| partOf | Burroughs’ cut-up era works ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Soft Machine
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The Ticket That Exploded ⓘ |
| role | antagonist group ⓘ |
| setting |
dystopian future
ⓘ
intergalactic space ⓘ |
| universe |
Nova Trilogy
ⓘ
linked to:
The Nova Trilogy
|
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: Nova Mob Description of subject: Nova Mob is a fictional criminal organization of intergalactic villains featured in William S. Burroughs’ novel "Nova Express."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.