Snow Crash
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Snow Crash is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores virtual reality, linguistics, and corporate-dominated future societies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Snow Crash canonical | 5 |
| Bitworld | 1 |
| novel "Snow Crash" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861790 — 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: Snow Crash Context triple: [Neal Stephenson, notableWork, Snow Crash]
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Master Switch
The Master Switch is a nonfiction book by Tim Wu that explores how communication industries tend to cycle between open innovation and closed, monopolistic control.
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C.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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D.
The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
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E.
Neuromancer
Neuromancer is William Gibson’s seminal 1984 cyberpunk novel that helped define the genre with its depiction of cyberspace, artificial intelligence, and a dystopian high-tech future.
- 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: Snow Crash Target entity description: Snow Crash is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores virtual reality, linguistics, and corporate-dominated future societies.
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Master Switch
The Master Switch is a nonfiction book by Tim Wu that explores how communication industries tend to cycle between open innovation and closed, monopolistic control.
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C.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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D.
The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
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E.
Neuromancer
Neuromancer is William Gibson’s seminal 1984 cyberpunk novel that helped define the genre with its depiction of cyberspace, artificial intelligence, and a dystopian high-tech future.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cyberpunk novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Neal Stephenson ⓘ |
| awarded |
nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
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nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coverArtist | Jean-François Podevin ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
Sumerian mythology
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anarcho-capitalism ⓘ corporate power ⓘ fragmentation of nation-states ⓘ information theory ⓘ linguistics ⓘ memetics ⓘ religion as virus ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk
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postcyberpunk ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationPlanned | television series adaptation (in development at various times) ⓘ |
| influenced |
conceptualizations of the metaverse in technology culture
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virtual reality discourse ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-553-56261-4 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Hiro Protagonist
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Juanita Marquez ⓘ Raven ⓘ Uncle Enzo ⓘ Y.T. ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Metaverse
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avatar (virtual representation) ⓘ franchise-organized quasi-national entities ⓘ hyperinflationary economy ⓘ |
| originalPublicationFormat | print ⓘ |
| partOf | cyberpunk literature canon ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| publisher | Bantam Books ⓘ |
| setIn |
Los Angeles
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Metaverse ⓘ near future ⓘ |
| titleOrigin |
refers to a computer virus
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refers to a fictional drug ⓘ |
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: Snow Crash Description of subject: Snow Crash is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores virtual reality, linguistics, and corporate-dominated future societies.
Referenced by (7)
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