Halting State
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"Halting State" is a near-future science fiction novel by Charles Stross that explores virtual worlds, online crime, and surveillance through a multi-perspective narrative set in a technologically advanced Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halting State canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060078 — 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: Halting State Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, Halting State]
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Halt
Halt is the surname of Karl Ritter von Halt, a notable German sports official and International Olympic Committee member in the early to mid-20th century.
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Stop
"Stop" is a comedic musical number from the stage adaptation of Mean Girls in which characters are urged to pause and think before acting impulsively.
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C.
Stuck
Stuck is the surname of Hudson Stuck, an English-born American Episcopal priest, educator, and mountaineer known for co-leading the first successful ascent of Denali.
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Cooma
Cooma is a town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains and the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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E.
Ponto de Parada
Ponto de Parada is a neighborhood in the city of Recife, Brazil, known primarily as a residential area within the metropolitan region.
- 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: Halting State Target entity description: "Halting State" is a near-future science fiction novel by Charles Stross that explores virtual worlds, online crime, and surveillance through a multi-perspective narrative set in a technologically advanced Scotland.
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A.
Halt
Halt is the surname of Karl Ritter von Halt, a notable German sports official and International Olympic Committee member in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Stop
"Stop" is a comedic musical number from the stage adaptation of Mean Girls in which characters are urged to pause and think before acting impulsively.
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C.
Stuck
Stuck is the surname of Hudson Stuck, an English-born American Episcopal priest, educator, and mountaineer known for co-leading the first successful ascent of Denali.
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D.
Cooma
Cooma is a town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains and the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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E.
Ponto de Parada
Ponto de Parada is a neighborhood in the city of Recife, Brazil, known primarily as a residential area within the metropolitan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Hugo Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNominationYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Michele Hardeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
corporate espionage
ⓘ
cryptography ⓘ distributed denial-of-service attacks ⓘ pervasive surveillance ⓘ policing in virtual spaces ⓘ ubiquitous computing ⓘ virtual economies ⓘ |
| exploresTechnology |
augmented reality glasses
ⓘ
digital rights management ⓘ location-based services ⓘ smartphones ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Elaine Barnaby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk
ⓘ
near-future science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ techno-thriller ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-316-02027-0 ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Rule 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
dialogue-driven
ⓘ
fast-paced ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
augmented reality
ⓘ
digital security ⓘ law enforcement and technology ⓘ massively multiplayer online games ⓘ online crime ⓘ surveillance ⓘ virtual worlds ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | second-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | multi-perspective narrative ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Halting State series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher | Orbit Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCity | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | near future ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: Halting State Description of subject: "Halting State" is a near-future science fiction novel by Charles Stross that explores virtual worlds, online crime, and surveillance through a multi-perspective narrative set in a technologically advanced Scotland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.