Story of Your Life
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"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by Ted Chiang that explores language, determinism, and human emotion through a linguist’s encounters with alien visitors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stories of Your Life and Others | 1 |
| Story of Your Life canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6975646 — 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: Story of Your Life Context triple: [Arrival, basedOn, Story of Your Life]
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A.
The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier is Iron Maiden’s fifteenth studio album, a science fiction–themed heavy metal release known for its expansive songwriting and complex compositions.
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B.
The Midnight Sky
The Midnight Sky is a 2020 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by and starring George Clooney, following a lone scientist in the Arctic who races to warn returning astronauts of a global catastrophe.
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C.
Interstellaires
Interstellaires is a 2015 studio album by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer that blends pop, electronic, and atmospheric sounds, including a notable collaboration with Sting.
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D.
Embrace the Martian
"Embrace the Martian" is a spacey, introspective hip-hop track by Kid Cudi that showcases his signature blend of melancholic lyrics and futuristic production.
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E.
Arrival
Arrival is a 2016 science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve that explores first contact with aliens through a linguist’s efforts to communicate with them.
- 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: Story of Your Life Target entity description: "Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by Ted Chiang that explores language, determinism, and human emotion through a linguist’s encounters with alien visitors.
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A.
The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier is Iron Maiden’s fifteenth studio album, a science fiction–themed heavy metal release known for its expansive songwriting and complex compositions.
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B.
The Midnight Sky
The Midnight Sky is a 2020 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by and starring George Clooney, following a lone scientist in the Arctic who races to warn returning astronauts of a global catastrophe.
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C.
Interstellaires
Interstellaires is a 2015 studio album by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer that blends pop, electronic, and atmospheric sounds, including a notable collaboration with Sting.
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D.
Embrace the Martian
"Embrace the Martian" is a spacey, introspective hip-hop track by Kid Cudi that showcases his signature blend of melancholic lyrics and futuristic production.
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E.
Arrival
Arrival is a 2016 science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve that explores first contact with aliens through a linguist’s efforts to communicate with them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novella
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science fiction novella ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Arrival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Ted Chiang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| awarded | Nebula Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| centralRelationship | mother–daughter relationship ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Stories of Your Life and Others NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| editorOfFirstPublication | Patrick Nielsen Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
deterministic universe
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effects of language on cognition ⓘ nonlinear time ⓘ predestination ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies | heptapods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Denis Villeneuve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationScreenwriter | Eric Heisserer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Starlight 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
first-contact fiction
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philosophical fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Louise Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | novella-length ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Louise Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Hugo Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | linguist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Tor Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | near-future Earth ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
linguistics
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physics of time ⓘ xenolinguistics ⓘ |
| theme |
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
NERFINISHED
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causality ⓘ communication ⓘ determinism ⓘ fate ⓘ free will ⓘ human emotion ⓘ language ⓘ parenthood ⓘ time perception ⓘ |
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: Story of Your Life Description of subject: "Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by Ted Chiang that explores language, determinism, and human emotion through a linguist’s encounters with alien visitors.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Story of Your Life
this entity surface form:
Stories of Your Life and Others