N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great"
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N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great" is an urban fantasy tale in which New York City becomes a living entity whose nascent avatar must fight to protect its birth.
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| N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great" canonical | 1 |
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23150428 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great" Context triple: [The City We Became, inspiredBy, N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great"]
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short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
"The World to Come" is a historical short story by Jim Shepard that portrays the harsh isolation and emotional turmoil of a 19th-century frontier woman through her intimate diary entries.
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“The Bad Place” (short fiction)
“The Bad Place” is a short work of speculative fiction by American author Hillary Jordan that explores dark, unsettling themes in a near-future or alternate-reality setting.
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The Star (short story)
"The Star" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of faith and cosmic catastrophe through the reflections of a Jesuit astrophysicist confronting a devastating astronomical discovery.
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Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future
"Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future" is a speculative fiction collection that blends African diasporic folklore, music, and futurism into interconnected, genre-bending short stories.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a philosophical short story by Ursula K. Le Guin that depicts a seemingly utopian city whose happiness depends on the suffering of a single child, exploring themes of morality, complicity, and the cost of perfection.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great" Target entity description: N. K. Jemisin’s short story "The City Born Great" is an urban fantasy tale in which New York City becomes a living entity whose nascent avatar must fight to protect its birth.
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A.
short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
"The World to Come" is a historical short story by Jim Shepard that portrays the harsh isolation and emotional turmoil of a 19th-century frontier woman through her intimate diary entries.
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B.
“The Bad Place” (short fiction)
“The Bad Place” is a short work of speculative fiction by American author Hillary Jordan that explores dark, unsettling themes in a near-future or alternate-reality setting.
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C.
The Star (short story)
"The Star" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of faith and cosmic catastrophe through the reflections of a Jesuit astrophysicist confronting a devastating astronomical discovery.
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D.
Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future
"Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future" is a speculative fiction collection that blends African diasporic folklore, music, and futurism into interconnected, genre-bending short stories.
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E.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a philosophical short story by Ursula K. Le Guin that depicts a seemingly utopian city whose happiness depends on the suffering of a single child, exploring themes of morality, complicity, and the cost of perfection.
- F. None of above. chosen
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