Seveneves
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Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seveneves canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861794 — 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: Seveneves Context triple: [Neal Stephenson, notableWork, Seveneves]
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A.
Last and First Men
Last and First Men is a seminal 1930 science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon that presents a sweeping future history of humanity across billions of years and multiple evolved species.
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B.
World Without End
World Without End is a historical novel by Ken Follett that continues the story begun in The Pillars of the Earth, following the lives of residents in the medieval town of Kingsbridge during the 14th century.
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C.
World Without End
World Without End is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its story of astronauts who time-travel to a post-apocalyptic future Earth.
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D.
Across the Sea of Suns
Across the Sea of Suns is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that follows humanity’s first deep-space expedition and its encounter with mysterious alien civilizations.
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E.
Arular
Arular is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its politically charged lyrics and innovative fusion of electronic, hip hop, and world music.
- 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: Seveneves Target entity description: Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
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A.
Last and First Men
Last and First Men is a seminal 1930 science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon that presents a sweeping future history of humanity across billions of years and multiple evolved species.
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B.
World Without End
World Without End is a historical novel by Ken Follett that continues the story begun in The Pillars of the Earth, following the lives of residents in the medieval town of Kingsbridge during the 14th century.
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C.
World Without End
World Without End is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its story of astronauts who time-travel to a post-apocalyptic future Earth.
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D.
Across the Sea of Suns
Across the Sea of Suns is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that follows humanity’s first deep-space expedition and its encounter with mysterious alien civilizations.
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E.
Arular
Arular is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its politically charged lyrics and innovative fusion of electronic, hip hop, and world music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard science fiction novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Neal Stephenson ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ⓘ
linked to:
Locus Award
Prometheus Award ⓘ |
| awardNominationYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
genetic engineering
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human survival ⓘ rebuilding civilization ⓘ space colonization ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresCharacter |
Aïda Ferrari
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Dinah MacQuarie ⓘ Doc Dubois ⓘ Ivy Xiao ⓘ Julia Bliss Flaherty ⓘ Moira Crewe ⓘ Tekla Alekseyevna Ilushina ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirectorAttached | Ron Howard ⓘ |
| filmRightsOptionedBy |
Skydance Productions
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linked to:
Skydance Media
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| followedBy | The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. ⓘ |
| genre |
apocalyptic fiction
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hard science fiction ⓘ post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationInDevelopment | film adaptation ⓘ |
| isbn | 9780062190376 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainEvent | catastrophic disintegration of the Moon ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | detailed technical exposition ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of long-term human speciation
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focus on engineering problem-solving ⓘ realistic orbital mechanics ⓘ |
| pageCount | 880 ⓘ |
| partOfBibliographyOf | Neal Stephenson ⓘ |
| precededBy | Reamde ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2015-05-19 ⓘ |
| publisher | William Morrow and Company ⓘ |
| setting |
near future
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post-apocalyptic Earth ⓘ space ⓘ |
| structure | three parts ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfNarrative | approximately 5000 years ⓘ |
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: Seveneves Description of subject: Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.