The Purple Cloud
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The Purple Cloud is a 1901 apocalyptic science fiction novel by M. P. Shiel in which the apparent last man on Earth wanders a world devastated by a mysterious poisonous cloud.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Purple Cloud canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6184165 — 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 Purple Cloud Context triple: [The World, the Flesh and the Devil, basedOn, The Purple Cloud]
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A.
The Pink Cloud
The Pink Cloud is a luminous Neo-Impressionist painting by French artist Henri-Edmond Cross, celebrated for its vibrant color harmonies and pointillist technique depicting a radiant sky and landscape.
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B.
Into the Purple Valley
Into the Purple Valley is a 1972 roots-rock and Americana album by Ry Cooder that blends traditional folk, blues, and R&B songs into a distinctive, atmospheric collection.
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C.
High in the Clouds
High in the Clouds is a children’s adventure story created by Paul McCartney about a young squirrel’s quest to find a fabled animal sanctuary after his home is destroyed.
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D.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by D. H. Lawrence that traces three generations of an English family while exploring themes of sexuality, individuality, and social change.
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E.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is a seascape painting by Russian-Armenian Romantic artist Ivan Aivazovsky, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of light, atmosphere, and the power of the sea.
- 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 Purple Cloud Target entity description: The Purple Cloud is a 1901 apocalyptic science fiction novel by M. P. Shiel in which the apparent last man on Earth wanders a world devastated by a mysterious poisonous cloud.
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A.
The Pink Cloud
The Pink Cloud is a luminous Neo-Impressionist painting by French artist Henri-Edmond Cross, celebrated for its vibrant color harmonies and pointillist technique depicting a radiant sky and landscape.
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B.
Into the Purple Valley
Into the Purple Valley is a 1972 roots-rock and Americana album by Ry Cooder that blends traditional folk, blues, and R&B songs into a distinctive, atmospheric collection.
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C.
High in the Clouds
High in the Clouds is a children’s adventure story created by Paul McCartney about a young squirrel’s quest to find a fabled animal sanctuary after his home is destroyed.
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D.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is a seascape painting by Russian-Armenian Romantic artist Ivan Aivazovsky, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of light, atmosphere, and the power of the sea.
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E.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by D. H. Lawrence that traces three generations of an English family while exploring themes of sexuality, individuality, and social change.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
apocalyptic novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | M. P. Shiel ⓘ |
| centuryOfPublication | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| genre |
apocalyptic fiction
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science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Edwardian era ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Adam Jeffson ⓘ |
| motif | last man on Earth ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early depiction of a global extinction event
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use of a mysterious poisonous cloud as apocalyptic agent ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The apparent last man on Earth wanders a world devastated by a mysterious poisonous cloud. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1901 ⓘ |
| publisher | Chatto & Windus ⓘ |
| setting |
Earth
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post-apocalyptic world ⓘ |
| theme |
apocalypse
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humanity and civilization ⓘ isolation ⓘ madness ⓘ survival ⓘ |
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 Purple Cloud Description of subject: The Purple Cloud is a 1901 apocalyptic science fiction novel by M. P. Shiel in which the apparent last man on Earth wanders a world devastated by a mysterious poisonous cloud.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.