Tower of Glass
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Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tower of Glass canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804797 — 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: Tower of Glass Context triple: [Robert Silverberg, notableWork, Tower of Glass]
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A.
Red Tower
Red Tower is a historic medieval tower and landmark in the German city of Chemnitz.
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B.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
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C.
City of Dreaming Spires
City of Dreaming Spires is a poetic nickname for Oxford, England, evoking its skyline of historic university towers and spires.
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D.
The City of Brass
The City of Brass is a legendary, opulent, and cursed city of jinn and lost treasures featured in the tales of *One Thousand and One Nights* (The Arabian Nights).
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E.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
- 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: Tower of Glass Target entity description: Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
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A.
Red Tower
Red Tower is a historic medieval tower and landmark in the German city of Chemnitz.
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B.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
-
C.
City of Dreaming Spires
City of Dreaming Spires is a poetic nickname for Oxford, England, evoking its skyline of historic university towers and spires.
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D.
The City of Brass
The City of Brass is a legendary, opulent, and cursed city of jinn and lost treasures featured in the tales of *One Thousand and One Nights* (The Arabian Nights).
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E.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
creator–creation ethics
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human–machine relationships ⓘ social stratification ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
| hasFictionalElement |
sentient androids
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telepathic communication ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Tower of Glass self-link ⓘ |
| isWorkOf | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
class hierarchy ⓘ ethics of creating sentient beings ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| setting | future ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
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: Tower of Glass Description of subject: Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.