Pebble in the Sky
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Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pebble in the Sky canonical | 18 |
| "Pebble in the Sky" (1950) | 1 |
| Pebble in the Sky (novel) | 1 |
| Pebble in the Sky is third in internal chronology | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308338 — 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: Pebble in the Sky Context triple: [Isaac Asimov, notableWork, Pebble in the Sky]
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A.
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction mystery novel by Isaac Asimov featuring detective Elijah Baley investigating a murder on the sparsely populated, robot-dominated planet Solaria.
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B.
The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov set in his Galactic Empire universe, exploring political intrigue, planetary exploitation, and social stratification on a distant world.
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C.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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D.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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E.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
- 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: Pebble in the Sky Target entity description: Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
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A.
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction mystery novel by Isaac Asimov featuring detective Elijah Baley investigating a murder on the sparsely populated, robot-dominated planet Solaria.
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B.
The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov set in his Galactic Empire universe, exploring political intrigue, planetary exploitation, and social stratification on a distant world.
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C.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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D.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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E.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| basedOn | “Grow Old With Me” ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | magazine serial ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Earth’s struggle for survival
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eugenics ⓘ imperialism ⓘ prejudice ⓘ radioactivity and environmental decay ⓘ time displacement ⓘ xenophobia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtistFirstEdition | Richard Powers ⓘ |
| deweyDecimalClassification | 813/.52 ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| firstNovelByAuthor | true ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Currents of Space
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The Stars, Like Dust ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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space opera ⓘ time travel fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-385-00345-5 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | PS3551.S5 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bel Arvardan
ⓘ
Dr. Shekt ⓘ High Minister (High Minister of Earth) ⓘ Joseph Schwartz ⓘ Poli (Polly) Schwartz ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableElement |
depicts Earth as a radioactive backwater world
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portrays Earth as subject to Galactic prejudice ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| originalWorkingTitle | Grow Old With Me ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Galactic Empire series
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surface form:
Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire series
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| plotDevice |
accidental time displacement
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mind amplification device ⓘ |
| precedes | The Stars, Like Dust ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| relationToOtherWorks |
chronologically one of the earliest Galactic Empire novels
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set in the same universe as the Foundation series ⓘ |
| setInFictionalUniverse |
Galactic Empire series
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surface form:
Galactic Empire universe
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| setting |
Galactic Empire series
ⓘ
surface form:
Galactic Empire
future Earth ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | far future ⓘ |
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: Pebble in the Sky Description of subject: Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pebble in the Sky is third in internal chronology
subject surface form:
Poli Schwartz
subject surface form:
Grow Old With Me
subject surface form:
Grow Old With Me
this entity surface form:
"Pebble in the Sky" (1950)
subject surface form:
High Minister of Earth
subject surface form:
High Minister of Earth
this entity surface form:
Pebble in the Sky (novel)