Solar
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"Solar" is a satirical novel by Ian McEwan that follows a disgraced Nobel Prize–winning physicist entangled in personal failings and global climate change schemes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Solar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5008129 — 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: Solar Context triple: [Ian McEwan, notableWork, Solar]
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A.
Solar dynasty
The Solar dynasty is a legendary royal lineage in ancient Indian tradition, tracing its origin to the sun god Surya and including famed kings such as Rama of Ayodhya.
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B.
Solar Productions
Solar Productions was a film production company founded by actor Steve McQueen, known for producing several of his late-1960s and early-1970s movies.
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C.
Tesla solar panels
Tesla solar panels are high-efficiency photovoltaic modules designed for residential and commercial rooftops, often paired with Tesla Powerwall batteries to create integrated solar-plus-storage energy systems.
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D.
Solar Opposites
Solar Opposites is an animated sci-fi comedy series about a family of aliens who crash-land on Earth and struggle to decide whether human society is awful or awesome.
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E.
SUN
SUN is the National Rail station code for Sunderland railway station in Tyne and Wear, England.
- 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: Solar Target entity description: "Solar" is a satirical novel by Ian McEwan that follows a disgraced Nobel Prize–winning physicist entangled in personal failings and global climate change schemes.
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A.
Solar dynasty
The Solar dynasty is a legendary royal lineage in ancient Indian tradition, tracing its origin to the sun god Surya and including famed kings such as Rama of Ayodhya.
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B.
Solar Productions
Solar Productions was a film production company founded by actor Steve McQueen, known for producing several of his late-1960s and early-1970s movies.
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C.
Tesla solar panels
Tesla solar panels are high-efficiency photovoltaic modules designed for residential and commercial rooftops, often paired with Tesla Powerwall batteries to create integrated solar-plus-storage energy systems.
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D.
Solar Opposites
Solar Opposites is an animated sci-fi comedy series about a family of aliens who crash-land on Earth and struggle to decide whether human society is awful or awesome.
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E.
SUN
SUN is the National Rail station code for Sunderland railway station in Tyne and Wear, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian McEwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | Sweet Tooth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
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literary fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize longlist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780224090490 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approx. 285 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
dark comedy
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satire of academia ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Michael Beard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableAspect |
comic treatment of climate change
ⓘ
portrayal of a flawed scientist ⓘ |
| partOf | Ian McEwan bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | On Chesil Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAward | Nobel Prize in Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | physicist ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
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United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
renewable energy
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scientific research ⓘ solar power ⓘ |
| theme |
climate change
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environmentalism ⓘ global warming ⓘ infidelity ⓘ personal failure ⓘ scientific ethics ⓘ self-deception ⓘ |
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: Solar Description of subject: "Solar" is a satirical novel by Ian McEwan that follows a disgraced Nobel Prize–winning physicist entangled in personal failings and global climate change schemes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.