“A safe operating space for humanity”
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“A safe operating space for humanity” is a landmark scientific paper that introduced the planetary boundaries framework, defining environmental limits within which human societies can safely operate.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A safe operating space for humanity | 1 |
| Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity | 1 |
| “A safe operating space for humanity” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4777791 — 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: “A safe operating space for humanity” Context triple: [Johan Rockström, notableWork, “A safe operating space for humanity”]
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A.
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
"Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment" is an influential book by economist Partha Dasgupta that analyzes how economic development, environmental sustainability, and human welfare are interlinked.
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B.
The human roots of the ecological crisis
"The human roots of the ecological crisis" is a key chapter in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ that analyzes how modern technological, economic, and cultural patterns of human behavior have led to environmental degradation and social injustice.
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C.
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
"Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime" is a philosophical work by Bruno Latour that rethinks humanity’s relationship with the Earth in the context of climate change and the Anthropocene.
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D.
Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
"Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity" is the subtitle of James Lovelock’s environmental science book *The Revenge of Gaia*, emphasizing the urgent, existential threat that global climate change poses to human civilization.
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E.
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review is a landmark UK-commissioned report that applies economic analysis to demonstrate the dependence of human prosperity on nature and to propose reforms for integrating biodiversity and natural capital into economic decision-making.
- 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: “A safe operating space for humanity” Target entity description: “A safe operating space for humanity” is a landmark scientific paper that introduced the planetary boundaries framework, defining environmental limits within which human societies can safely operate.
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A.
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
"Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment" is an influential book by economist Partha Dasgupta that analyzes how economic development, environmental sustainability, and human welfare are interlinked.
-
B.
The human roots of the ecological crisis
"The human roots of the ecological crisis" is a key chapter in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ that analyzes how modern technological, economic, and cultural patterns of human behavior have led to environmental degradation and social injustice.
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C.
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
"Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime" is a philosophical work by Bruno Latour that rethinks humanity’s relationship with the Earth in the context of climate change and the Anthropocene.
-
D.
Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
"Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity" is the subtitle of James Lovelock’s environmental science book *The Revenge of Gaia*, emphasizing the urgent, existential threat that global climate change poses to human civilization.
-
E.
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review is a landmark UK-commissioned report that applies economic analysis to demonstrate the dependence of human prosperity on nature and to propose reforms for integrating biodiversity and natural capital into economic decision-making.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: “A safe operating space for humanity” Description of subject: “A safe operating space for humanity” is a landmark scientific paper that introduced the planetary boundaries framework, defining environmental limits within which human societies can safely operate.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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“A safe operating space for humanity”
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