Dark State
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"Dark State" is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, part of his Empire Games series that blends alternate-history politics with high-tech espionage across parallel timelines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dark State canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060101 — 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: Dark State Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, Dark State]
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A.
Deep Dark
Deep Dark is a rare, eerie underground biome in Minecraft characterized by low light, sculk blocks, and the presence of the powerful Warden mob.
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B.
Dark Blues
Dark Blues is the traditional nickname for the Oxford University Rugby Football Club’s first team, reflecting the university’s dark blue sporting colors.
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C.
After the Dark
After the Dark is a 2013 philosophical science-fiction thriller film that explores moral dilemmas through a series of apocalyptic thought experiments conducted by a high school philosophy class.
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D.
Darkside
Darkside is a track by the American funeral doom metal band Funeral, known for its slow, heavy atmosphere and melancholic tone.
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E.
Out of the Dark
Out of the Dark is a collection of essays by Helen Keller in which she reflects on socialism, social justice, and her political beliefs.
- 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: Dark State Target entity description: "Dark State" is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, part of his Empire Games series that blends alternate-history politics with high-tech espionage across parallel timelines.
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A.
Deep Dark
Deep Dark is a rare, eerie underground biome in Minecraft characterized by low light, sculk blocks, and the presence of the powerful Warden mob.
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B.
Dark Blues
Dark Blues is the traditional nickname for the Oxford University Rugby Football Club’s first team, reflecting the university’s dark blue sporting colors.
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C.
After the Dark
After the Dark is a 2013 philosophical science-fiction thriller film that explores moral dilemmas through a series of apocalyptic thought experiments conducted by a high school philosophy class.
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D.
Darkside
Darkside is a track by the American funeral doom metal band Funeral, known for its slow, heavy atmosphere and melancholic tone.
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E.
Out of the Dark
Out of the Dark is a collection of essays by Helen Keller in which she reflects on socialism, social justice, and her political beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresConcept |
high-tech espionage
ⓘ
interstate diplomacy ⓘ nuclear deterrence ⓘ parallel universes ⓘ world-walking ⓘ |
| followedBy | Invisible Sun ⓘ |
| follows | Empire Games ⓘ |
| genre |
alternate history fiction
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm | novel ⓘ |
| hasSeriesNumber | second book in the Empire Games trilogy ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
alternate history North America
ⓘ
parallel timelines ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
alternate-history politics
ⓘ
interdimensional espionage ⓘ state power and control ⓘ surveillance state ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Empire Games ⓘ |
| partOfUniverse | The Merchant Princes universe ⓘ |
| precededBy | Empire Games ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Clan Corporate
ⓘ
The Family Trade ⓘ The Hidden Family ⓘ The Merchants' War ⓘ The Revolution Business ⓘ The Trade of Queens ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dark State Description of subject: "Dark State" is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, part of his Empire Games series that blends alternate-history politics with high-tech espionage across parallel timelines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.