The Mind's Sky
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The Mind's Sky is a popular science book by Timothy Ferris that explores the nature of consciousness, perception, and the human mind through the lens of astronomy, physics, and cognitive science.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mind's Sky canonical | 1 |
| The Mind’s Sky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1135951 — 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 Mind's Sky Context triple: [Timothy Ferris, notableWork, The Mind's Sky]
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A.
The Other Side of the Sky
The Other Side of the Sky is a science fiction short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke that explores space travel, futuristic technology, and human ingenuity through a series of imaginative tales.
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B.
Les Solitudes
Les Solitudes is a reflective poetic work by French writer and first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Sully Prudhomme, exploring themes of isolation and inner life.
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C.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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D.
Heaven's Mirror
Heaven's Mirror is a book by Graham Hancock that explores ancient monuments and myths around the world, proposing they encode sophisticated astronomical knowledge and memories of a lost advanced civilization.
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E.
Earthlight
Earthlight is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores political tension and scientific discovery in a future human civilization spread across the Moon and the Solar System.
- 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 Mind's Sky Target entity description: The Mind's Sky is a popular science book by Timothy Ferris that explores the nature of consciousness, perception, and the human mind through the lens of astronomy, physics, and cognitive science.
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A.
The Other Side of the Sky
The Other Side of the Sky is a science fiction short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke that explores space travel, futuristic technology, and human ingenuity through a series of imaginative tales.
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B.
Les Solitudes
Les Solitudes is a reflective poetic work by French writer and first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Sully Prudhomme, exploring themes of isolation and inner life.
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C.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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D.
Heaven's Mirror
Heaven's Mirror is a book by Graham Hancock that explores ancient monuments and myths around the world, proposing they encode sophisticated astronomical knowledge and memories of a lost advanced civilization.
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E.
Earthlight
Earthlight is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores political tension and scientific discovery in a future human civilization spread across the Moon and the Solar System.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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popular science book ⓘ |
| author | Timothy Ferris ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discusses |
cosmology in relation to consciousness
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human cognition ⓘ philosophical implications of modern physics ⓘ |
| explores |
nature of consciousness
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nature of perception ⓘ relationship between mind and cosmos ⓘ |
| field | science writing ⓘ |
| genre | popular science ⓘ |
| hasAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Timothy Ferris ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | scientific ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
limits of human perception
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mind and universe connection ⓘ nature of reality as perceived by the mind ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | non-fiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
astronomy
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cognitive science ⓘ consciousness ⓘ human mind ⓘ perception ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| usesDiscipline |
astronomy
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cognitive science ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Timothy Ferris ⓘ |
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 Mind's Sky Description of subject: The Mind's Sky is a popular science book by Timothy Ferris that explores the nature of consciousness, perception, and the human mind through the lens of astronomy, physics, and cognitive science.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Mind’s Sky