The Day Is Done
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"The Day Is Done" is a science fiction short story by Lester del Rey that poignantly explores themes of human obsolescence and the end of an era in the face of evolutionary change.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Day Is Done canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6112168 — 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 Day Is Done Context triple: [Lester del Rey, notableWork, The Day Is Done]
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A.
Day Is Done
Day Is Done is a multimedia installation and video project by American artist Mike Kelley that satirically reimagines American high-school rituals and subcultural performances through fragmented, theatrical vignettes.
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B.
Early in the Morning
"Early in the Morning" is a blues track featured on Buddy Guy's acclaimed 1991 album "Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues."
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C.
Some of These Days
"Some of These Days" is a classic early 20th-century popular song closely associated with vaudeville and jazz, made famous by singer Sophie Tucker.
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D.
Lonesome Day
"Lonesome Day" is a rock song by Bruce Springsteen, known as the opening track of his post-9/11 themed album *The Rising*.
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E.
My Man’s Gone Now
"My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.
- 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 Day Is Done Target entity description: "The Day Is Done" is a science fiction short story by Lester del Rey that poignantly explores themes of human obsolescence and the end of an era in the face of evolutionary change.
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A.
Day Is Done
Day Is Done is a multimedia installation and video project by American artist Mike Kelley that satirically reimagines American high-school rituals and subcultural performances through fragmented, theatrical vignettes.
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B.
Early in the Morning
"Early in the Morning" is a blues track featured on Buddy Guy's acclaimed 1991 album "Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues."
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C.
Some of These Days
"Some of These Days" is a classic early 20th-century popular song closely associated with vaudeville and jazz, made famous by singer Sophie Tucker.
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D.
Lonesome Day
"Lonesome Day" is a rock song by Bruce Springsteen, known as the opening track of his post-9/11 themed album *The Rising*.
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E.
My Man’s Gone Now
"My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction short story ⓘ |
| author | Lester del Rey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| explores |
emotional response to extinction
ⓘ
impact of evolution on humanity ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | speculative future Earth ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | short story ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century science fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | future of humanity ⓘ |
| partOf | Lester del Rey bibliography ⓘ |
| subject |
decline of the human species
ⓘ
succession by evolved beings ⓘ |
| theme |
end of an era
ⓘ
evolutionary change ⓘ human obsolescence ⓘ |
| tone | poignant ⓘ |
| workOf | Lester del Rey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Day Is Done Description of subject: "The Day Is Done" is a science fiction short story by Lester del Rey that poignantly explores themes of human obsolescence and the end of an era in the face of evolutionary change.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.