The Time Machine
E17600
The Time Machine is a pioneering 1895 science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that explores time travel, social evolution, and dystopian futures through the journey of an unnamed Time Traveller.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Time Machine canonical | 11 |
| The Time Machine (1895 novel by H. G. Wells) | 1 |
| The Time Machine (2002 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147425 — 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 Time Machine Context triple: [Herbert George Wells, notableWork, The Time Machine]
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A.
Journeys in Space and Time
"Journeys in Space and Time" is a notable episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the nature of space-time, relativity, and the vast scales of the universe.
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B.
Le Jules Verne
Le Jules Verne is a renowned Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant located on the second level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, offering fine French cuisine with panoramic city views.
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C.
The Chambered Nautilus
"The Chambered Nautilus" is a reflective 1858 poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. that uses the spiraled shell of a nautilus as an extended metaphor for spiritual growth and the soul’s continual ascent.
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D.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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E.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a satirical novel that transports a 19th-century American engineer back to King Arthur’s Britain, where he uses modern knowledge to challenge medieval society and romanticized chivalry.
- 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 Time Machine Target entity description: The Time Machine is a pioneering 1895 science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that explores time travel, social evolution, and dystopian futures through the journey of an unnamed Time Traveller.
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A.
Journeys in Space and Time
"Journeys in Space and Time" is a notable episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the nature of space-time, relativity, and the vast scales of the universe.
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B.
Le Jules Verne
Le Jules Verne is a renowned Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant located on the second level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, offering fine French cuisine with panoramic city views.
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C.
The Chambered Nautilus
"The Chambered Nautilus" is a reflective 1858 poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. that uses the spiraled shell of a nautilus as an extended metaphor for spiritual growth and the soul’s continual ascent.
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D.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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E.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a satirical novel that transports a 19th-century American engineer back to King Arthur’s Britain, where he uses modern knowledge to challenge medieval society and romanticized chivalry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novella
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science fiction work ⓘ time travel fiction ⓘ |
| author | H. G. Wells GENERATED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Darwinian evolution
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class division GENERATED ⓘ dystopian future GENERATED ⓘ entropy and decay GENERATED ⓘ industrialization GENERATED ⓘ social evolution GENERATED ⓘ time travel GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
class stratification projected into the future
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fourth dimension as time GENERATED ⓘ future degeneration of humanity GENERATED ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies |
Eloi
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Morlocks GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | The New Review GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedAs | serial GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction GENERATED ⓘ speculative fiction GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Time Machine (1960 film)
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The Time Machine (1978 television film) GENERATED ⓘ The Time Machine (2002 film) GENERATED ⓘ radio adaptations GENERATED ⓘ stage adaptations GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasDevice | time machine GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Time Traveller GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasMotive |
critique of Victorian class system
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speculation on human destiny GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
Eloi as symbol of decadent upper class
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Morlocks as symbol of exploited working class GENERATED ⓘ time machine as symbol of technological power GENERATED ⓘ |
| influenced |
later science fiction literature
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time travel genre GENERATED ⓘ |
| literaryForm | novella GENERATED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
early science fiction
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scientific romance GENERATED ⓘ |
| narrativeFrame | first-person narrator recounting Time Traveller’s story GENERATED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | frame narrative GENERATED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English GENERATED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | The Time Machine GENERATED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1895 GENERATED ⓘ |
| publisher | Heinemann GENERATED ⓘ |
| setting |
Victorian England
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far future Earth GENERATED ⓘ |
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 Time Machine Description of subject: The Time Machine is a pioneering 1895 science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that explores time travel, social evolution, and dystopian futures through the journey of an unnamed Time Traveller.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Time Machine (2002 film)
subject surface form:
The Time Machine (narrative device in The Naked and the Dead)
this entity surface form:
The Time Machine (1895 novel by H. G. Wells)