Stone Spring
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Stone Spring is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that reimagines prehistoric Britain facing a catastrophic sea-level rise and the resulting struggle for survival and adaptation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stone Spring canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805627 — 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: Stone Spring Context triple: [Stephen Baxter, notableWork, Stone Spring]
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A.
Poodle Springs
Poodle Springs is an unfinished hardboiled detective novel begun by Raymond Chandler and posthumously completed by Robert B. Parker, featuring Chandler’s iconic private investigator Philip Marlowe.
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B.
Shingle Springs
Shingle Springs is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its Gold Rush-era history and rural, foothill setting.
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C.
Soda Springs
Soda Springs was the former name of the small Mojave Desert community now known as Zzyzx, California, historically associated with mineral springs and a health spa.
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D.
Hunt’s Spring
Hunt’s Spring was a natural water source in present-day Huntsville, Alabama, around which the original settlement developed and from which the city later took its name.
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E.
Hot Creek
Hot Creek is a geothermally heated stream in eastern California known for its hot springs, fumaroles, and striking volcanic landscape.
- 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: Stone Spring Target entity description: Stone Spring is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that reimagines prehistoric Britain facing a catastrophic sea-level rise and the resulting struggle for survival and adaptation.
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A.
Poodle Springs
Poodle Springs is an unfinished hardboiled detective novel begun by Raymond Chandler and posthumously completed by Robert B. Parker, featuring Chandler’s iconic private investigator Philip Marlowe.
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B.
Shingle Springs
Shingle Springs is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its Gold Rush-era history and rural, foothill setting.
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C.
Soda Springs
Soda Springs was the former name of the small Mojave Desert community now known as Zzyzx, California, historically associated with mineral springs and a health spa.
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D.
Hunt’s Spring
Hunt’s Spring was a natural water source in present-day Huntsville, Alabama, around which the original settlement developed and from which the city later took its name.
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E.
Hot Creek
Hot Creek is a geothermally heated stream in eastern California known for its hot springs, fumaroles, and striking volcanic landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Baxter ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
catastrophic flooding
ⓘ
construction of sea defenses ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Bronze Summer
ⓘ
Iron Winter ⓘ |
| genre |
alternate history
ⓘ
prehistoric fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | hard science fiction elements ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
adaptation
ⓘ
climate change ⓘ sea-level rise ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
community resilience
ⓘ
technological innovation in prehistory ⓘ |
| originalMediaType | print ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Northland trilogy ⓘ |
| publisher | Gollancz ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | prehistoric Britain ⓘ |
| workIn | Northland fictional universe ⓘ |
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: Stone Spring Description of subject: Stone Spring is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that reimagines prehistoric Britain facing a catastrophic sea-level rise and the resulting struggle for survival and adaptation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.