Perdido Street Station
E474464
Perdido Street Station is a critically acclaimed fantasy novel by China Miéville that blends steampunk, horror, and political intrigue in the sprawling, grotesque city of New Crobuzon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Perdido Street Station canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861739 — 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: Perdido Street Station Context triple: [China Miéville, notableWork, Perdido Street Station]
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A.
The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
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B.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that explores genetic engineering, corporate power, and environmental collapse through a post-apocalyptic narrative.
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C.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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D.
MaddAddam
MaddAddam is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that concludes her speculative trilogy exploring genetic engineering, ecological collapse, and post-apocalyptic survival.
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E.
City of the Beasts
City of the Beasts is a young adult fantasy adventure novel by Isabel Allende that follows a boy’s mystical journey into the Amazon rainforest, blending magical realism with environmental and indigenous themes.
- 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: Perdido Street Station Target entity description: Perdido Street Station is a critically acclaimed fantasy novel by China Miéville that blends steampunk, horror, and political intrigue in the sprawling, grotesque city of New Crobuzon.
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A.
The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
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B.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that explores genetic engineering, corporate power, and environmental collapse through a post-apocalyptic narrative.
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C.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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D.
MaddAddam
MaddAddam is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that concludes her speculative trilogy exploring genetic engineering, ecological collapse, and post-apocalyptic survival.
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E.
City of the Beasts
City of the Beasts is a young adult fantasy adventure novel by Isabel Allende that follows a boy’s mystical journey into the Amazon rainforest, blending magical realism with environmental and indigenous themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy novel
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novel ⓘ science fantasy novel ⓘ steampunk novel ⓘ |
| author | China Miéville ⓘ |
| award | Arthur C. Clarke Award ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| containsElement |
body horror
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horror ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Edward Miller ⓘ |
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Scar ⓘ |
| follows | King Rat ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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science fantasy ⓘ steampunk ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-333-78172-4 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin
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Lin ⓘ Yagharek ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
British Fantasy Award
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Hugo Award for Best Novel ⓘ Nebula Award for Best Novel ⓘ |
| notableElement |
blend of fantasy and industrial technology
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depiction of a corrupt industrial city-state ⓘ use of multiple sentient species ⓘ |
| originalPublisher |
Macmillan
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linked to:
Macmillan Publishers
Pan Macmillan ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 710 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Bas-Lag ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| setting | New Crobuzon ⓘ |
| theme |
exploitation of labor
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political corruption ⓘ scientific ethics ⓘ social inequality ⓘ urban decay ⓘ |
| universe | Bas-Lag ⓘ |
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: Perdido Street Station Description of subject: Perdido Street Station is a critically acclaimed fantasy novel by China Miéville that blends steampunk, horror, and political intrigue in the sprawling, grotesque city of New Crobuzon.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.