Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his novel "Ender's Game" and its sequels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Orson Scott Card canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910057 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orson Scott Card Context triple: [Tor Books, notableAuthorPublished, Orson Scott Card]
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A.
David Brin
David Brin is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist known for his award-winning novels and influential essays on topics such as the Fermi paradox and the future of civilization.
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B.
Larry Niven
Larry Niven is an American science fiction author renowned for his hard-SF works and expansive Known Space universe, which includes the acclaimed novel *Ringworld*.
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C.
L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith was an American libertarian science fiction author and activist known for his pro-freedom themes and influential role in promoting libertarian ideas within speculative fiction.
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D.
Julian May
Julian May was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her sprawling Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu series.
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E.
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American author best known for his genre-spanning speculative fiction, including acclaimed works of science fiction, horror, and historical fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orson Scott Card Target entity description: Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his novel "Ender's Game" and its sequels.
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A.
David Brin
David Brin is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist known for his award-winning novels and influential essays on topics such as the Fermi paradox and the future of civilization.
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B.
Larry Niven
Larry Niven is an American science fiction author renowned for his hard-SF works and expansive Known Space universe, which includes the acclaimed novel *Ringworld*.
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C.
L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith was an American libertarian science fiction author and activist known for his pro-freedom themes and influential role in promoting libertarian ideas within speculative fiction.
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D.
Julian May
Julian May was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her sprawling Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu series.
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E.
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American author best known for his genre-spanning speculative fiction, including acclaimed works of science fiction, horror, and historical fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
NERFINISHED
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John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer NERFINISHED ⓘ Locus Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebula Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Greensboro, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-08-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brigham Young University
NERFINISHED
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University of Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Card NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Orson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Orson Scott Card NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAwardedWork |
Ender's Game
NERFINISHED
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Speaker for the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alvin Journeyman
NERFINISHED
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Children of the Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ Earthborn NERFINISHED ⓘ Earthfall NERFINISHED ⓘ Ender's Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Ender's Shadow NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartfire NERFINISHED ⓘ Prentice Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Prophet NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventh Son NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Puppets NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow of the Giant NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow of the Hegemon NERFINISHED ⓘ Speaker for the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ The Call of Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crystal City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Memory of Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ships of Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ Xenocide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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columnist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Richland, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Children of the Mind
NERFINISHED
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Enchantment NERFINISHED ⓘ Ender's Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Ender's Shadow NERFINISHED ⓘ Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventh Son NERFINISHED ⓘ Speaker for the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Xenocide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Orson Scott Card Description of subject: Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his novel "Ender's Game" and its sequels.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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