Flood
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"Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805625 — 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: Flood Context triple: [Stephen Baxter, notableWork, Flood]
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Flood
Flood is a renowned British record producer and audio engineer known for his work with influential rock and alternative artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails.
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B.
Flood
Flood is a common English surname of Germanic origin, often associated with families from regions prone to flooding or near bodies of water.
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C.
Flood
Flood is a landmark 1963 abstract expressionist painting by Helen Frankenthaler, celebrated for its lyrical color field technique and innovative use of thinned paint poured directly onto unprimed canvas.
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Wake of the Flood
"Wake of the Flood" is a 1973 studio album by the Grateful Dead that marked their first release on their own label and introduced a jazzier, more polished sound to their music.
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The Great Flood of 1852
The Great Flood of 1852 was a catastrophic inundation of the Murrumbidgee River that devastated the Australian town of Gundagai, causing extensive loss of life and prompting the town’s relocation to higher ground.
- 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: Flood Target entity description: "Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
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A.
Flood
Flood is a renowned British record producer and audio engineer known for his work with influential rock and alternative artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails.
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B.
Flood
Flood is a common English surname of Germanic origin, often associated with families from regions prone to flooding or near bodies of water.
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C.
Flood
Flood is a landmark 1963 abstract expressionist painting by Helen Frankenthaler, celebrated for its lyrical color field technique and innovative use of thinned paint poured directly onto unprimed canvas.
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D.
Wake of the Flood
"Wake of the Flood" is a 1973 studio album by the Grateful Dead that marked their first release on their own label and introduced a jazzier, more polished sound to their music.
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E.
The Great Flood of 1852
The Great Flood of 1852 was a catastrophic inundation of the Murrumbidgee River that devastated the Australian town of Gundagai, causing extensive loss of life and prompting the town’s relocation to higher ground.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Baxter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
climate change
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global catastrophe ⓘ global sea level rise ⓘ human adaptation ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Gollancz house style (UK edition) ⓘ |
| exploresTopic |
geophysics
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oceanography ⓘ political response to disaster ⓘ technological solutions to extinction-level events ⓘ |
| featuresElement | mysterious deep-Earth water sources ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ark ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-575-08227-0 (UK hardback) ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Ark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
environmental collapse
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loss of civilization ⓘ mass migration ⓘ space colonization plans ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | novel ⓘ |
| mainCharacterGroup | a group of hostages released into a changing world ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | multiple viewpoints ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of gradual, unstoppable global flooding
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detailed scientific extrapolation of extreme sea level rise ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Flood/Ark duology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | depicts a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels that inundates Earth ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher | Gollancz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | near future ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
global ⓘ various coastal regions ⓘ |
| subgenre |
apocalyptic fiction
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climate fiction ⓘ hard science fiction ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workOf | Stephen Baxter bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Flood Description of subject: "Flood" is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores a near-future Earth devastated by a mysterious, relentless rise in global sea levels.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tom Courtenay