Quo Vadis
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"Quo Vadis" is a significant work by science historian and author George Dyson, reflecting his explorations of technology, computation, and their impact on human society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Quo Vadis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3525225 — 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: Quo Vadis Context triple: [George Dyson, notableWork, Quo Vadis]
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A.
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic historical drama film set in ancient Rome, renowned for its grand scale, depiction of Nero’s reign, and early Christian persecution.
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B.
Barabbas
Barabbas is a figure in the New Testament Gospels who was imprisoned for insurrection and released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus at the crowd’s demand.
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C.
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur is a 1959 epic historical drama film renowned for its grand scale, record-setting 11 Academy Awards, and iconic chariot race sequence.
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D.
The Robe
The Robe is a 1953 biblical epic drama film best known for being the first motion picture released in the widescreen CinemaScope format.
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E.
Salammbô
Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert set in ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War, renowned for its lush, exotic detail and meticulous historical research.
- 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: Quo Vadis Target entity description: "Quo Vadis" is a significant work by science historian and author George Dyson, reflecting his explorations of technology, computation, and their impact on human society.
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A.
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic historical drama film set in ancient Rome, renowned for its grand scale, depiction of Nero’s reign, and early Christian persecution.
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B.
Barabbas
Barabbas is a figure in the New Testament Gospels who was imprisoned for insurrection and released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus at the crowd’s demand.
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C.
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur is a 1959 epic historical drama film renowned for its grand scale, record-setting 11 Academy Awards, and iconic chariot race sequence.
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D.
The Robe
The Robe is a 1953 biblical epic drama film best known for being the first motion picture released in the widescreen CinemaScope format.
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E.
Salammbô
Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert set in ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War, renowned for its lush, exotic detail and meticulous historical research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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written work ⓘ |
| author | George Dyson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
future directions of computation
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historical development of computing ideas ⓘ relationship between technology and society ⓘ |
| genre |
history of science
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non-fiction ⓘ technology studies ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
author
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science historian ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
historical
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philosophical ⓘ technological ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
computation
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impact of technology on human society ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| title |
Quo Vadis (novel)
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surface form:
Quo Vadis
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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: Quo Vadis Description of subject: "Quo Vadis" is a significant work by science historian and author George Dyson, reflecting his explorations of technology, computation, and their impact on human society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
George Dyson