Quicksilver
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Quicksilver is a historical science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that blends 17th-century politics, early modern science, and adventure, and serves as the first volume of his Baroque Cycle.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quicksilver canonical | 3 |
| Quicksilver: “Odalisque” | 1 |
| Quicksilver: “Quicksilver” | 1 |
| Quicksilver: “The King of the Vagabonds” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861847 — 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: Quicksilver Context triple: [Neal Stephenson, hasPart, Quicksilver]
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A.
Quicksilver
Quicksilver is a Marvel Comics superhero known for his superhuman speed and frequent involvement with major teams like the Avengers and the X-Men.
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B.
The Wolverine
The Wolverine is a 2013 superhero film centered on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, following his journey to Japan where he confronts both his past and powerful new enemies.
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C.
Wolverine
Wolverine is a higher-speed Amtrak passenger train service that operates multiple daily routes between Chicago, Detroit, and Pontiac in the Midwestern United States.
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D.
Wolverine
Wolverine is a popular Marvel Comics mutant superhero known for his retractable adamantium claws, accelerated healing factor, and membership in the X-Men.
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E.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free, open-source email client developed by Mozilla, known for its extensibility and cross-platform support.
- 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: Quicksilver Target entity description: Quicksilver is a historical science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that blends 17th-century politics, early modern science, and adventure, and serves as the first volume of his Baroque Cycle.
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A.
Quicksilver
Quicksilver is a Marvel Comics superhero known for his superhuman speed and frequent involvement with major teams like the Avengers and the X-Men.
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B.
The Wolverine
The Wolverine is a 2013 superhero film centered on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, following his journey to Japan where he confronts both his past and powerful new enemies.
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C.
Wolverine
Wolverine is a higher-speed Amtrak passenger train service that operates multiple daily routes between Chicago, Detroit, and Pontiac in the Midwestern United States.
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D.
Wolverine
Wolverine is a popular Marvel Comics mutant superhero known for his retractable adamantium claws, accelerated healing factor, and membership in the X-Men.
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E.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free, open-source email client developed by Mozilla, known for its extensibility and cross-platform support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical science fiction novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Neal Stephenson ⓘ |
| awarded | Arthur C. Clarke Award ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | Christian J. McGrath ⓘ |
| featuresHistoricalFigure |
Christiaan Huygens
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ Isaac Newton ⓘ Robert Hooke ⓘ Samuel Pepys ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Confusion ⓘ |
| follows |
adventurers and vagabonds
ⓘ
scientists and natural philosophers ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubvolume |
Quicksilver: “Odalisque”
ⓘ
linked to:
Quicksilver
Quicksilver: “Quicksilver” ⓘ
linked to:
Quicksilver
Quicksilver: “The King of the Vagabonds” ⓘ
linked to:
Quicksilver
|
| hasTheme |
17th-century politics
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Royal Society ⓘ cryptography ⓘ early modern science ⓘ emergence of modern finance ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ scientific revolution ⓘ |
| ISBN | 0-06-059308-3 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Daniel Waterhouse
ⓘ
Eliza ⓘ Jack Shaftoe ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | multiple interwoven storylines ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
ⓘ
linked to:
Locus Award
|
| originalPublisher | William Morrow ⓘ |
| pageCount | 927 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Baroque Cycle ⓘ |
| precedes | The Confusion ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2003 ⓘ |
| seriesOrdinal | 1 ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
America
ⓘ
England ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
continental Europe ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
17th century
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early 18th century ⓘ |
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: Quicksilver Description of subject: Quicksilver is a historical science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that blends 17th-century politics, early modern science, and adventure, and serves as the first volume of his Baroque Cycle.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Quicksilver
linked to: Quicksilver
linked to: Quicksilver