The Runaway Robot
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The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Runaway Robot canonical | 2 |
| Runaway Robot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6112170 — 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 Runaway Robot Context triple: [Lester del Rey, notableWork, The Runaway Robot]
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A.
The Rest of the Robots
The Rest of the Robots is a science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that gathers many of his classic robot tales exploring the implications of the Three Laws of Robotics.
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B.
Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot
Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot is the first book in the children's science fiction series "The Norby Chronicles," introducing the quirky, time-traveling robot Norby and his young human companion.
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C.
The Complete Robot
The Complete Robot is a collection of Isaac Asimov’s robot-themed short stories that helped define his famous Three Laws of Robotics and shape modern science fiction.
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D.
The Runaway
"The Runaway" is a famous 1958 painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell depicting a young boy and a kindly policeman seated at a diner counter, capturing a nostalgic, narrative moment of small-town American life.
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E.
The Runaway
*The Runaway* is a memoir by British wood engraver Gwen Raverat that vividly recounts her eccentric Victorian childhood in the Darwin family.
- 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 Runaway Robot Target entity description: The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
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A.
The Rest of the Robots
The Rest of the Robots is a science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that gathers many of his classic robot tales exploring the implications of the Three Laws of Robotics.
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B.
Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot
Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot is the first book in the children's science fiction series "The Norby Chronicles," introducing the quirky, time-traveling robot Norby and his young human companion.
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C.
The Complete Robot
The Complete Robot is a collection of Isaac Asimov’s robot-themed short stories that helped define his famous Three Laws of Robotics and shape modern science fiction.
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D.
The Runaway
"The Runaway" is a famous 1958 painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell depicting a young boy and a kindly policeman seated at a diner counter, capturing a nostalgic, narrative moment of small-town American life.
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E.
The Runaway
*The Runaway* is a memoir by British wood engraver Gwen Raverat that vividly recounts her eccentric Victorian childhood in the Darwin family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Lester del Rey ⓘ |
| belongsToLiteraryTradition | American science fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacterType | self-aware robot ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Lester del Rey ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Lester del Rey ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverseElement |
robots
ⓘ
space travel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration (commonly used in mid-20th-century SF novels) ⓘ |
| hasRobotProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adventure
ⓘ
artificial intelligence ⓘ companionship ⓘ self-awareness ⓘ |
| hasTimeOfOrigin | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Runaway Robot ⓘ |
| isSetIn | outer space ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| mainCharacterRole | robot companion ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | adventures of a self-aware robot companion ⓘ |
| setting | distant planet ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young readers ⓘ |
| workType | fiction ⓘ |
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 Runaway Robot Description of subject: The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Runaway Robot