Double Helix: The First Virtue
E495396
"Double Helix: The First Virtue" is a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel by Michael Kube-McDowell that launches the "Double Helix" miniseries with a storyline involving a deadly engineered plague.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Double Helix: The First Virtue canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5117448 — 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: Double Helix: The First Virtue Context triple: [Michael Kube-McDowell, notableWork, Double Helix: The First Virtue]
-
A.
The Third Man of the Double Helix
The Third Man of the Double Helix is Maurice Wilkins’s autobiographical account of his role in the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure and the surrounding scientific and personal controversies.
-
B.
The Language of Life
The Language of Life is a popular science book by geneticist Francis Collins that explains how advances in genomics are transforming medicine and personal health.
-
C.
The New Science
The New Science is Giambattista Vico’s seminal 18th-century philosophical work that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays early foundations for the modern human and social sciences.
-
D.
The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome
The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome is a non-fiction book by Nobel laureate John Sulston that recounts the scientific race to sequence the human genome and explores its political and ethical implications.
-
E.
Climbing Mount Improbable
Climbing Mount Improbable is a popular science book by Richard Dawkins that explains the power of gradual evolution through natural selection using the metaphor of scaling a steep mountain via many small, feasible steps.
- 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: Double Helix: The First Virtue Target entity description: "Double Helix: The First Virtue" is a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel by Michael Kube-McDowell that launches the "Double Helix" miniseries with a storyline involving a deadly engineered plague.
-
A.
The Third Man of the Double Helix
The Third Man of the Double Helix is Maurice Wilkins’s autobiographical account of his role in the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure and the surrounding scientific and personal controversies.
-
B.
The Language of Life
The Language of Life is a popular science book by geneticist Francis Collins that explains how advances in genomics are transforming medicine and personal health.
-
C.
The New Science
The New Science is Giambattista Vico’s seminal 18th-century philosophical work that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays early foundations for the modern human and social sciences.
-
D.
The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome
The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome is a non-fiction book by Nobel laureate John Sulston that recounts the scientific race to sequence the human genome and explores its political and ethical implications.
-
E.
Climbing Mount Improbable
Climbing Mount Improbable is a popular science book by Richard Dawkins that explains the power of gradual evolution through natural selection using the metaphor of scaling a steep mountain via many small, feasible steps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Star Trek novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ tie-in novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Kube-McDowell ⓘ |
| basedOn | Star Trek: The Next Generation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| features |
deadly disease
ⓘ
engineered plague ⓘ |
| featuresFranchise | Star Trek: The Next Generation crew ⓘ |
| format | novel ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek ⓘ |
| genre |
media tie-in
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasContinuityWith |
Star Trek: The Next Generation television series
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | bioengineered pathogen ⓘ |
| partOf | Star Trek: Double Helix ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Star Trek novels ⓘ |
| publisher | Pocket Books ⓘ |
| seriesLaunch | Star Trek: Double Helix ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| settingUniverse |
Star Trek universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek
|
| targetAudience |
Star Trek fans
ⓘ
adult readers ⓘ |
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: Double Helix: The First Virtue Description of subject: "Double Helix: The First Virtue" is a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel by Michael Kube-McDowell that launches the "Double Helix" miniseries with a storyline involving a deadly engineered plague.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.