Stranger in a Strange Land
E490037
Stranger in a Strange Land is a landmark science fiction novel that explores themes of religion, sexuality, and cultural alienation through the story of a human raised by Martians who returns to Earth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stranger in a Strange Land canonical | 9 |
| “Stranger in a Strange Land” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5066597 — 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: Stranger in a Strange Land Context triple: [Robert A. Heinlein, notableWork, Stranger in a Strange Land]
-
A.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie as an alien visitor whose experiences critique human society and capitalism.
-
B.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
-
C.
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
-
D.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
-
E.
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that explores the power of dreams to alter reality and the ethical dilemmas that arise from such control.
- 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: Stranger in a Strange Land Target entity description: Stranger in a Strange Land is a landmark science fiction novel that explores themes of religion, sexuality, and cultural alienation through the story of a human raised by Martians who returns to Earth.
-
A.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie as an alien visitor whose experiences critique human society and capitalism.
-
B.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
-
C.
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
-
D.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
-
E.
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that explores the power of dreams to alter reality and the ethical dilemmas that arise from such control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert A. Heinlein ⓘ |
| award | Hugo Award for Best Novel ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| coinedTerm | grok ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | Ben Feder ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ social science fiction ⓘ |
| hasConcept | water brotherhood ⓘ |
| hasEdition | uncut edition ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
New Age movements
ⓘ
science fiction literature ⓘ |
| hasMottoOrKeyPhrase | Thou art God ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Martians
ⓘ
religious movements ⓘ telepathy ⓘ utopian communities ⓘ |
| influenced | 1960s counterculture ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-0-441-79034-0 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ben Caxton
ⓘ
Gillian Boardman ⓘ Jubal Harshaw ⓘ Valentine Michael Smith ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing the word "grok" ⓘ |
| originalPublisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons
ⓘ
linked to:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
|
| originalTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | 408 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A human raised by Martians returns to Earth and struggles to understand and transform human culture. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| publisherCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| setIn | Earth ⓘ |
| theme |
counterculture
ⓘ
cultural alienation ⓘ free love ⓘ individualism ⓘ organized religion ⓘ religion ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | near future ⓘ |
| uncutEditionPublicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| uncutEditionPublisher | Ace Books ⓘ |
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: Stranger in a Strange Land Description of subject: Stranger in a Strange Land is a landmark science fiction novel that explores themes of religion, sexuality, and cultural alienation through the story of a human raised by Martians who returns to Earth.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Guilty Pleasures (2005 album)
linked to: Stranger in a Strange Land
subject linked to:
U2 – October