The Circle
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The Circle is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers that critiques surveillance, social media culture, and the erosion of privacy within a powerful tech corporation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Circle canonical | 8 |
| The Circle (novel) | 1 |
| The Circle series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070838 — 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: The Circle Context triple: [Dave Eggers, notableWork, The Circle]
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A.
The Circle
The Circle is a 2009 rock album by Bon Jovi that marked the band’s return to a more guitar-driven arena rock sound after their country-influenced work.
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B.
The Circle NGO
The Circle NGO is a global feminist organization that campaigns for women's rights and gender equality, co-founded by musician and activist Annie Lennox.
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C.
The Circle of Days
The Circle of Days is a contemplative children's picture book by Reeve Lindbergh that celebrates the natural world and the cycle of life, inspired by the traditional Canticle of the Sun.
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D.
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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E.
The Unraveling
The Unraveling is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Rise Against, showcasing their early hardcore-influenced sound and socially conscious themes.
- 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: The Circle Target entity description: The Circle is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers that critiques surveillance, social media culture, and the erosion of privacy within a powerful tech corporation.
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A.
The Circle
The Circle is a 2009 rock album by Bon Jovi that marked the band’s return to a more guitar-driven arena rock sound after their country-influenced work.
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B.
The Circle NGO
The Circle NGO is a global feminist organization that campaigns for women's rights and gender equality, co-founded by musician and activist Annie Lennox.
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C.
The Circle of Days
The Circle of Days is a contemplative children's picture book by Reeve Lindbergh that celebrates the natural world and the cycle of life, inspired by the traditional Canticle of the Sun.
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D.
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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E.
The Unraveling
The Unraveling is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Rise Against, showcasing their early hardcore-influenced sound and socially conscious themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptation | The Circle (2017 film) ⓘ |
| adaptedIntoFilmYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| author | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| criticizes |
erosion of privacy
ⓘ
social media overexposure ⓘ surveillance culture ⓘ tech monopolies ⓘ |
| fictionalCorporation |
The Circle (company)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Circle (2017 film)
|
| filmAdaptationDirector | James Ponsoldt ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationStar |
Emma Watson
ⓘ
John Boyega ⓘ Tom Hanks ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasSequel | The Every ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-35139-3 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mae Holland ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | critique of big tech and surveillance ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 504 ⓘ |
| protagonist | Mae Holland ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2013-10-08 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Alfred A. Knopf
ⓘ
McSweeney's ⓘ |
| sequelPublicationYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | near future ⓘ |
| setting |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
The Circle campus ⓘ |
| theme |
conformity
ⓘ
corporate power ⓘ data collection ⓘ digital identity ⓘ loss of privacy ⓘ social media culture ⓘ surveillance ⓘ surveillance capitalism ⓘ technological utopianism ⓘ transparency ideology ⓘ |
| workByAuthor | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
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: The Circle Description of subject: The Circle is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers that critiques surveillance, social media culture, and the erosion of privacy within a powerful tech corporation.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eggers
linked to: The Circle
subject linked to:
The Circle
linked to: The Circle
subject linked to:
Athie