Alastair Reynolds
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Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alastair Reynolds canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6981606 — 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: Alastair Reynolds Context triple: [British Science Fiction Association Award, hasNotableRecipient, Alastair Reynolds]
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A.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
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B.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a Northern Irish football manager and former player best known for his long-term and highly successful tenure in charge of Crusaders FC.
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C.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
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D.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
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E.
Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan is a British science fiction author best known for his cyberpunk novel "Altered Carbon" and for writing the story for the video game Crysis 2.
- 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: Alastair Reynolds Target entity description: Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
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A.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
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B.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a Northern Irish football manager and former player best known for his long-term and highly successful tenure in charge of Crusaders FC.
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C.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
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D.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
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E.
Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan is a British science fiction author best known for his cyberpunk novel "Altered Carbon" and for writing the story for the video game Crysis 2.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ short story writer ⓘ space opera writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-03-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Newcastle University
NERFINISHED
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St Andrews University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | European Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Welsh ⓘ |
| familyName | Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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space opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Alastair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in astrophysics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arthur C. Clarke
NERFINISHED
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Isaac Asimov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Alastair Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Welsh ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Arthur C. Clarke Award
NERFINISHED
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Hugo Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | British Science Fiction Association Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Absolution Gap
NERFINISHED
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Aurora Rising NERFINISHED ⓘ Blue Remembered Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ Bone Silence NERFINISHED ⓘ Century Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ Chasm City NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Suns NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Steel Breeze NERFINISHED ⓘ Poseidon's Wake NERFINISHED ⓘ Pushing Ice NERFINISHED ⓘ Redemption Ark NERFINISHED ⓘ Revelation Space NERFINISHED ⓘ Revenger NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Captain NERFINISHED ⓘ Terminal World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prefect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astrophysicist
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author ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | research scientist ⓘ |
| series |
Poseidon's Children trilogy
NERFINISHED
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Revelation Space series NERFINISHED ⓘ Revenger trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle | hard science blended with gothic elements ⓘ |
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: Alastair Reynolds Description of subject: Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.