A Fall of Moondust
E106933
A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Fall of Moondust canonical | 13 |
| A Fall of Moondust universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T900793 — 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: A Fall of Moondust Context triple: [Arthur C. Clarke, notableWork, A Fall of Moondust]
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A.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO miniseries that dramatizes the history of the Apollo space program and the United States’ efforts to land astronauts on the Moon.
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B.
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
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C.
The Tragedy of the Moon
The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of science essays by Isaac Asimov that explores astronomy, the Moon, and broader scientific and philosophical themes for a general audience.
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D.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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E.
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction mystery novel by Isaac Asimov featuring detective Elijah Baley investigating a murder on the sparsely populated, robot-dominated planet Solaria.
- 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: A Fall of Moondust Target entity description: A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
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A.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO miniseries that dramatizes the history of the Apollo space program and the United States’ efforts to land astronauts on the Moon.
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B.
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
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C.
The Tragedy of the Moon
The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of science essays by Isaac Asimov that explores astronomy, the Moon, and broader scientific and philosophical themes for a general audience.
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D.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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E.
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction mystery novel by Isaac Asimov featuring detective Elijah Baley investigating a murder on the sparsely populated, robot-dominated planet Solaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| authorOtherWork |
2001: A Space Odyssey
ⓘ
Childhood’s End ⓘ
linked to:
Childhood's End
Rendezvous with Rama ⓘ |
| awardNominated | Hugo Award for Best Novel ⓘ |
| awardNominationYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| containsElement |
limited life-support crisis
ⓘ
media coverage of disaster ⓘ subsurface dust avalanche ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
1960s science fiction novels
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British science fiction novels ⓘ novels set on the Moon ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| hasForm | standalone novel ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Pat Harris
ⓘ
Sue Wilkins ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| hasRescueTeamCharacter |
Chief Engineer Lawrence
ⓘ
Commodore Hansteen ⓘ |
| hasScientificAspect | speculation about deep lunar dust seas ⓘ |
| hasStructure | linear narrative ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
disaster survival
ⓘ
human ingenuity ⓘ rescue operations ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| hasVehicle | Selene ⓘ |
| influencedBy | contemporary lunar science of the 1950s and early 1960s ⓘ |
| isPartOfSeries | no ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Sea of Thirst ⓘ |
| notableFor | realistic depiction of lunar environment based on pre-Apollo knowledge ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A tourist vessel becomes trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and a rescue operation is mounted. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd ⓘ |
| setting |
the Moon
ⓘ
linked to:
Moon
|
| timePeriodOfSetting | near future ⓘ |
| workType | hard science fiction ⓘ |
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: A Fall of Moondust Description of subject: A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Fall of Moondust