Rule 34
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Rule 34 is a science fiction crime novel by Charles Stross that blends near-future technology, internet culture, and dark humor in a story about law enforcement investigating bizarre online-inspired crimes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rule 34 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060081 — 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: Rule 34 Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, Rule 34]
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Rule 33
Rule 33 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs when and how a criminal defendant may seek a new trial in federal court.
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B.
AVN
AVN is the IATA airport code for Avignon – Provence Airport in southeastern France.
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C.
NSFW
NSFW is a satirical stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores media ethics, exploitation, and tabloid culture within a glossy men’s magazine office.
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D.
Pickelporno
Pickelporno is an experimental short film by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, known for its sensual, surreal imagery and exploration of the female body and desire through a highly subjective camera perspective.
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E.
Shunga
Shunga was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
- 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: Rule 34 Target entity description: Rule 34 is a science fiction crime novel by Charles Stross that blends near-future technology, internet culture, and dark humor in a story about law enforcement investigating bizarre online-inspired crimes.
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A.
Rule 33
Rule 33 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs when and how a criminal defendant may seek a new trial in federal court.
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B.
AVN
AVN is the IATA airport code for Avignon – Provence Airport in southeastern France.
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C.
NSFW
NSFW is a satirical stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores media ethics, exploitation, and tabloid culture within a glossy men’s magazine office.
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D.
Pickelporno
Pickelporno is an experimental short film by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, known for its sensual, surreal imagery and exploration of the female body and desire through a highly subjective camera perspective.
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E.
Shunga
Shunga was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | contemporary internet culture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Anwar Hussein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Liz Kavanaugh NERFINISHED ⓘ The Toymaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
crime fiction ⓘ near-future fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ techno-thriller ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination |
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prometheus Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-441-02034-8 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 368 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
bureaucracy ⓘ emerging technology ⓘ globalization ⓘ internet culture ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ memes ⓘ online crime ⓘ organized crime ⓘ post-scarcity economics ⓘ social media ⓘ spam and online fraud ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | internet meme Rule 34 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | near-future ⓘ |
| mainCharacterAffiliation | Edinburgh police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | police officer ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark humor
ⓘ
depiction of internet-driven crime ⓘ use of second-person style in related series context ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Halting State series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Halting State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Ace Books
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orbit Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | near future ⓘ |
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: Rule 34 Description of subject: Rule 34 is a science fiction crime novel by Charles Stross that blends near-future technology, internet culture, and dark humor in a story about law enforcement investigating bizarre online-inspired crimes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.