Accelerando
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Accelerando is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows multiple generations of a family navigating the rapid approach and aftermath of a technological singularity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Accelerando canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060077 — 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: Accelerando Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, Accelerando]
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A.
Accelerate
Accelerate is a song by the Christian rock band Liberation, known for its energetic style and uplifting, faith-centered lyrics.
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B.
Faster
Faster is a 2010 American action thriller film starring Dwayne Johnson as an ex-con seeking revenge after his brother’s murder.
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C.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
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D.
Full Throttle
Full Throttle is a horror and dark fantasy short story collection by Joe Hill that showcases his signature blend of suspenseful, character-driven tales.
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E.
Full Throttle
Full Throttle is a 1995 LucasArts graphic adventure game set in a biker-themed, dystopian future, known for its cinematic storytelling, rock soundtrack, and dark humor.
- 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: Accelerando Target entity description: Accelerando is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows multiple generations of a family navigating the rapid approach and aftermath of a technological singularity.
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A.
Accelerate
Accelerate is a song by the Christian rock band Liberation, known for its energetic style and uplifting, faith-centered lyrics.
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B.
Faster
Faster is a 2010 American action thriller film starring Dwayne Johnson as an ex-con seeking revenge after his brother’s murder.
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C.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
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D.
Full Throttle
Full Throttle is a horror and dark fantasy short story collection by Joe Hill that showcases his signature blend of suspenseful, character-driven tales.
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E.
Full Throttle
Full Throttle is a 1995 LucasArts graphic adventure game set in a biker-themed, dystopian future, known for its cinematic storytelling, rock soundtrack, and dark humor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| availability | freely downloadable from the author’s website ⓘ |
| awarded | Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| basedOn | short stories by Charles Stross ⓘ |
| containsConcept |
Matrioshka brain
NERFINISHED
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corporate personhood ⓘ distributed artificial intelligences ⓘ economics of post-scarcity societies ⓘ intellectual property as AI agent ⓘ mind uploading ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Curator
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Elector ⓘ Halo NERFINISHED ⓘ Lobsters ⓘ Nightfall NERFINISHED ⓘ Router ⓘ Survivor NERFINISHED ⓘ Survivor (epilogue section) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tourist NERFINISHED ⓘ Troubadour ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | Creative Commons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainFamilyName | Macx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
accelerating technological change
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artificial intelligence ⓘ posthumanism ⓘ technological singularity ⓘ uploading of consciousness ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Arthur C. Clarke Award
NERFINISHED
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Hugo Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Amber Macx
NERFINISHED
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Manfred Macx NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirhan Macx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationForm | fix-up novel ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Ace Books
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orbit Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
near-future Earth
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outer space ⓘ post-singularity solar system ⓘ |
| structure | multi-generational family saga ⓘ |
| subgenre |
hard science fiction
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postcyberpunk ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
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: Accelerando Description of subject: Accelerando is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows multiple generations of a family navigating the rapid approach and aftermath of a technological singularity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.