The Invisible Man
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The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147427 — 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: The Invisible Man Context triple: [Herbert George Wells, notableWork, The Invisible Man]
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In the Shadow of Man
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Skull Island
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The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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Black Sunday
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Madame X
Madame X is a famous 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent, renowned for its provocative depiction of Parisian socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau and the scandal it caused at the Paris Salon.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Invisible Man Target entity description: The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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A.
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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B.
Skull Island
Skull Island is a fictional, remote and perilous island best known as the home of the giant ape King Kong and various prehistoric creatures in the King Kong franchise.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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E.
Madame X
Madame X is a famous 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent, renowned for its provocative depiction of Parisian socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau and the scandal it caused at the Paris Salon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
comic
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film GENERATED ⓘ radio drama GENERATED ⓘ television series GENERATED ⓘ |
| author | H. G. Wells GENERATED ⓘ |
| centralConcept | invisibility GENERATED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
abuse of scientific power
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isolation GENERATED ⓘ madness GENERATED ⓘ moral responsibility of scientists GENERATED ⓘ |
| characterRoleOfGriffin |
antagonist
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scientist GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstBookPublicationYear | 1897 GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serial GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Pearson's Weekly GENERATED ⓘ |
| followedBy | The War of the Worlds GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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speculative fiction GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dr. Kemp
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Griffin GENERATED ⓘ Mr. Marvel GENERATED ⓘ Mrs. Hall GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasMotiveForProtagonist | scientific curiosity GENERATED ⓘ |
| influenced | later invisibility-themed fiction GENERATED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | scientific romance GENERATED ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
classic of early science fiction
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key work in the scientific romance tradition GENERATED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Griffin GENERATED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableFilmAdaptation | The Invisible Man (1933 film) GENERATED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English GENERATED ⓘ |
| partOf | H. G. Wells bibliography GENERATED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
attempted reign of terror
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descent into violence GENERATED ⓘ scientific experiment to become invisible GENERATED ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Island of Doctor Moreau GENERATED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Griffin GENERATED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1897 GENERATED ⓘ |
| publisher | C. Arthur Pearson GENERATED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
England
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Iping, West Sussex GENERATED ⓘ London GENERATED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | late 19th century GENERATED ⓘ |
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: The Invisible Man Description of subject: The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
Referenced by (25)
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