Cradle
E510731
Cradle is a science fiction novel co-written by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee that explores alien contact, advanced technology, and humanity’s future.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cradle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5309620 — 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: Cradle Context triple: [Gentry Lee, notableWork, Cradle]
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A.
From the Cradle
From the Cradle is a 1994 blues album by Eric Clapton that features covers of classic blues songs and marks his return to traditional electric blues.
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B.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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C.
Cradle and All
Cradle and All is a suspense thriller novel by James Patterson that intertwines a mysterious virgin pregnancy with a global battle between good and evil.
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D.
From Cradle to Grave
From Cradle to Grave is a chapter in Milton and Rose Friedman's influential book "Free to Choose" that critiques government welfare and social insurance programs across individuals' lifetimes.
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E.
The Cry
The Cry is a British television drama series adapted from Helen FitzGerald's novel, focusing on the psychological unravelling of a couple after their baby goes missing.
- 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: Cradle Target entity description: Cradle is a science fiction novel co-written by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee that explores alien contact, advanced technology, and humanity’s future.
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A.
From the Cradle
From the Cradle is a 1994 blues album by Eric Clapton that features covers of classic blues songs and marks his return to traditional electric blues.
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B.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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C.
Cradle and All
Cradle and All is a suspense thriller novel by James Patterson that intertwines a mysterious virgin pregnancy with a global battle between good and evil.
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D.
From Cradle to Grave
From Cradle to Grave is a chapter in Milton and Rose Friedman's influential book "Free to Choose" that critiques government welfare and social insurance programs across individuals' lifetimes.
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E.
The Cry
The Cry is a British television drama series adapted from Helen FitzGerald's novel, focusing on the psychological unravelling of a couple after their baby goes missing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author |
Arthur C. Clarke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gentry Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
Arthur C. Clarke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gentry Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElement |
extraterrestrial intelligence
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ underwater discovery ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose narrative ⓘ |
| hasSetting | near-future Earth ⓘ |
| hasTopic |
ethics of technological advancement
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future of humanity ⓘ impact of alien contact on human society ⓘ oceanography in science fiction ⓘ space science ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
advanced technology
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alien contact ⓘ humanity’s future ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | interaction between humans and alien technology ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arthur C. Clarke bibliography
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gentry Lee bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | collaborative novel ⓘ |
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: Cradle Description of subject: Cradle is a science fiction novel co-written by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee that explores alien contact, advanced technology, and humanity’s future.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.