Rendezvous with Rama
E108919
Rendezvous with Rama is a classic hard science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity’s encounter with a mysterious alien starship entering the Solar System.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rendezvous with Rama canonical | 2 |
| The Garden of Rama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T900787 — 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.
Target entity: Rendezvous with Rama Context triple: [Arthur C. Clarke, notableWork, Rendezvous with Rama]
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A.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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B.
Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a landmark science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's transcendence and the profound consequences of a seemingly benevolent alien intervention.
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C.
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
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D.
Die Welträthsel
Die Welträthsel is a late-19th-century philosophical and scientific work by Ernst Haeckel that attempts to explain the fundamental "riddles of the universe" through a monistic, evolutionary worldview.
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E.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Rendezvous with Rama Target entity description: Rendezvous with Rama is a classic hard science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity’s encounter with a mysterious alien starship entering the Solar System.
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A.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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B.
Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a landmark science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's transcendence and the profound consequences of a seemingly benevolent alien intervention.
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C.
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
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D.
Die Welträthsel
Die Welträthsel is a late-19th-century philosophical and scientific work by Ernst Haeckel that attempts to explain the fundamental "riddles of the universe" through a monistic, evolutionary worldview.
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E.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard science fiction novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
British Science Fiction Association Award
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surface form:
British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel
Hugo Award for Best Novel ⓘ John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ⓘ Jupiter Award for Best Novel ⓘ Nebula Award ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Novel
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | mysterious alien starship ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
cosmic insignificance of humanity
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human curiosity ⓘ limits of human understanding ⓘ non-anthropocentric alien life ⓘ |
| featuresConcept |
alien engineering
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artificial gravity via rotation ⓘ cylindrical megastructure ⓘ space exploration by human crews ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | novel ⓘ |
| followedBy | Rama II ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationPlanned | film adaptation (various unproduced projects) ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Endeavour crew
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Mercury colonists ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Commander Bill Norton ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Rama II
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Rama Revealed ⓘ The Garden of Rama ⓘ |
| includedIn | lists of classic science fiction novels ⓘ |
| influenced | later hard science fiction about megastructures ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780575016356 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Golden Age of Science Fiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
exploration of alien spacecraft
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first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
minimal direct depiction of aliens
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open-ended, ambiguous conclusion ⓘ rigorous scientific plausibility ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Rama series ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd ⓘ |
| setIn | Solar System ⓘ |
| setInTime | 22nd century ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Rama ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Rendezvous with Rama Description of subject: Rendezvous with Rama is a classic hard science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity’s encounter with a mysterious alien starship entering the Solar System.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.