Galley Slave
E206701
"Galley Slave" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov featuring his Three Laws of Robotics in a courtroom drama about a robot accused of academic fraud.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Galley Slave canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835452 — 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: Galley Slave Context triple: [The Rest of the Robots, containsWork, Galley Slave]
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A.
One of Life’s Slaves
One of Life’s Slaves is a naturalist novel by Norwegian author Jonas Lie that explores the struggles and social constraints faced by individuals in 19th-century Scandinavian society.
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B.
Songs of Surrender
Songs of Surrender is a 2023 album by Irish rock band U2 featuring reimagined and stripped-down versions of songs from across their catalog.
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C.
Spoonman
"Spoonman" is a Grammy-winning 1994 grunge single by Soundgarden, written by Chris Cornell and inspired by Seattle street performer Artis the Spoonman.
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D.
Fell on Black Days
"Fell on Black Days" is a dark, introspective grunge song by Soundgarden, written and sung by Chris Cornell and released on their acclaimed 1994 album *Superunknown*.
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E.
New Slaves
"New Slaves" is a politically charged hip-hop song by Kanye West that critiques racism, consumerism, and mass incarceration in modern society.
- 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: Galley Slave Target entity description: "Galley Slave" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov featuring his Three Laws of Robotics in a courtroom drama about a robot accused of academic fraud.
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A.
One of Life’s Slaves
One of Life’s Slaves is a naturalist novel by Norwegian author Jonas Lie that explores the struggles and social constraints faced by individuals in 19th-century Scandinavian society.
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B.
Songs of Surrender
Songs of Surrender is a 2023 album by Irish rock band U2 featuring reimagined and stripped-down versions of songs from across their catalog.
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C.
Spoonman
"Spoonman" is a Grammy-winning 1994 grunge single by Soundgarden, written by Chris Cornell and inspired by Seattle street performer Artis the Spoonman.
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D.
Fell on Black Days
"Fell on Black Days" is a dark, introspective grunge song by Soundgarden, written and sung by Chris Cornell and released on their acclaimed 1994 album *Superunknown*.
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E.
New Slaves
"New Slaves" is a politically charged hip-hop song by Kanye West that critiques racism, consumerism, and mass incarceration in modern society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction short story ⓘ |
| author | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
academic fraud
ⓘ
ethics of robotics ⓘ responsibility for robotic actions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| exploresIssue |
human dependence on robots
ⓘ
legal status of robots ⓘ misuse of advanced technology ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | robot ⓘ |
| featuresConcept | Three Laws of Robotics ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | magazine ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasRobotCharacterRole | defendant in trial ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Galley Slave self-link ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | courtroom drama ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Robot series ⓘ |
| partOfUniverse |
Asimov's positronic robot universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Asimov's Robot universe
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| setting | academic environment ⓘ |
| subgenre | robot fiction ⓘ |
| usesLawSystem |
First Law of Robotics
ⓘ
Second Law of Robotics ⓘ Third Law of Robotics ⓘ |
| workType | short fiction ⓘ |
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: Galley Slave Description of subject: "Galley Slave" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov featuring his Three Laws of Robotics in a courtroom drama about a robot accused of academic fraud.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.