The Illustrated Man
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The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of interconnected science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury, framed by the eerie premise of a man whose living tattoos foretell the future.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Illustrated Man canonical | 3 |
| the Illustrated Man | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T921827 — 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: The Illustrated Man Context triple: [Ray Bradbury, notableWork, The Illustrated Man]
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A.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
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B.
The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 espionage thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on Robert Ludlum’s novel about a TV host entangled in a deadly CIA conspiracy.
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C.
In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
- 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: The Illustrated Man Target entity description: The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of interconnected science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury, framed by the eerie premise of a man whose living tattoos foretell the future.
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A.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
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B.
The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 espionage thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on Robert Ludlum’s novel about a TV host entangled in a deadly CIA conspiracy.
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C.
In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
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D.
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.
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E.
The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
frame narrative
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science fiction book ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Ray Bradbury ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Kaleidoscope
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Marionettes, Inc. ⓘ No Particular Night or Morning ⓘ The City ⓘ The Exiles ⓘ The Fire Balloons ⓘ The Fox and the Forest ⓘ The Highway ⓘ The Last Night of the World ⓘ The Long Rain ⓘ The Man ⓘ The Other Foot ⓘ The Rocket ⓘ The Rocket Man ⓘ The Veldt ⓘ The Visitor ⓘ Zero Hour ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| followedBy | The Golden Apples of the Sun ⓘ |
| frameCharacter |
The Illustrated Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
the Illustrated Man
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| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Illustrated Man (1969 film) ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Guy Billout ⓘ |
| influenced | later science fiction anthologies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | living tattoos that foretell the future ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark and eerie tone
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interconnected short stories linked by a tattooed man ⓘ |
| originalAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ray Bradbury
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surface form:
Ray Bradbury bibliography
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| precededBy | The Martian Chronicles ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting | various future and speculative locations ⓘ |
| theme |
colonization of other planets
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family relationships ⓘ free will and predestination ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ space travel ⓘ technology and its impact on humanity ⓘ war and apocalypse ⓘ |
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: The Illustrated Man Description of subject: The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of interconnected science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury, framed by the eerie premise of a man whose living tattoos foretell the future.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Illustrated Man