Dragonquest
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Dragonquest is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey set on the planet Pern, continuing the story of dragonriders who battle deadly Thread from the sky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dragonquest canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4666386 — 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: Dragonquest Context triple: [Anne McCaffrey, notableWork, Dragonquest]
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A.
Ys
Ys is Joanna Newsom’s critically acclaimed 2006 avant-folk album known for its long, orchestral compositions and richly poetic lyrics.
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B.
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is a long-running and influential action-adventure video game series centered on exploration, puzzle-solving, and heroic quests in the fantasy land of Hyrule.
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C.
Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles is a critically acclaimed action role-playing game series known for its expansive open worlds, deep real-time combat systems, and emotionally driven storytelling.
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D.
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star is a classic Japanese role-playing game franchise known for its pioneering blend of sci-fi and fantasy settings and its influential early titles on Sega consoles.
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E.
Zelda
Zelda was an American socialite, novelist, and painter best known as the charismatic and troubled wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and a symbol of the Jazz Age.
- 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: Dragonquest Target entity description: Dragonquest is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey set on the planet Pern, continuing the story of dragonriders who battle deadly Thread from the sky.
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A.
Ys
Ys is Joanna Newsom’s critically acclaimed 2006 avant-folk album known for its long, orchestral compositions and richly poetic lyrics.
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B.
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is a long-running and influential action-adventure video game series centered on exploration, puzzle-solving, and heroic quests in the fantasy land of Hyrule.
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C.
Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles is a critically acclaimed action role-playing game series known for its expansive open worlds, deep real-time combat systems, and emotionally driven storytelling.
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D.
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star is a classic Japanese role-playing game franchise known for its pioneering blend of sci-fi and fantasy settings and its influential early titles on Sega consoles.
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E.
Zelda
Zelda was an American socialite, novelist, and painter best known as the charismatic and troubled wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and a symbol of the Jazz Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
science fantasy novel ⓘ |
| author | Anne McCaffrey ⓘ |
| basedOn | concept of human-dragon telepathic bond ⓘ |
| centralConflict | battle against Thread ⓘ |
| chronologyPositionInSeries | second book in Dragonriders of Pern trilogy ⓘ |
| containsElement |
telepathy
ⓘ
time travel (betweening through time) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | Gino D’Achille ⓘ |
| coverCaption | A novel of Pern ⓘ |
| featuresGroup | dragonriders ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies | dragons ⓘ |
| followedBy | The White Dragon ⓘ |
| follows | Dragonflight ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
science fantasy ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-345-31452-8 ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | planetary romance ⓘ |
| hasSubseries | core Dragonriders trilogy ⓘ |
| hasTechnologyLevelInFiction | regressed colony world ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cooperation against existential threat
ⓘ
duty and responsibility ⓘ tradition versus change ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
F’lar
ⓘ
linked to:
F'lar
F’nor ⓘ
linked to:
F'nor
Lessa ⓘ |
| mainLocation |
Benden Weyr
ⓘ
linked to:
Weyrs
Harper Hall ⓘ Southern Weyr ⓘ
linked to:
Weyrs
|
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Hugo Award for Best Novel nomination
ⓘ
linked to:
Hugo Award for Best Novel
|
| notableAwardYear | 1972 Hugo Award nomination ⓘ |
| partOf | Pern universe ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ballantine Books ⓘ |
| series | Dragonriders of Pern ⓘ |
| setting | Pern ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
adult readers
ⓘ
young adult readers ⓘ |
| threat | Thread ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | Ninth Pass of Thread ⓘ |
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: Dragonquest Description of subject: Dragonquest is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey set on the planet Pern, continuing the story of dragonriders who battle deadly Thread from the sky.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.