Startide Rising
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Startide Rising is a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction novel by David Brin that follows a crew of uplifted dolphins and humans stranded on an alien world after discovering a mysterious galactic secret.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Startide Rising canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7657704 — 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.
Target entity: Startide Rising Context triple: [David Brin, notableWork, Startide Rising]
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A.
In the Ocean of Night
"In the Ocean of Night" is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that blends astrophysics, alien contact, and cosmic-scale mystery as part of his larger Galactic Center series.
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B.
Across the Sea of Suns
Across the Sea of Suns is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that follows humanity’s first deep-space expedition and its encounter with mysterious alien civilizations.
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C.
The Seer
The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
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D.
Tehanu
Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
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E.
The Witchwood
The Witchwood is a spooky, Worgen-themed Hearthstone expansion set in the haunted forests of Gilneas, introducing new cards and mechanics focused on eerie, supernatural gameplay.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Startide Rising Target entity description: Startide Rising is a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction novel by David Brin that follows a crew of uplifted dolphins and humans stranded on an alien world after discovering a mysterious galactic secret.
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A.
In the Ocean of Night
"In the Ocean of Night" is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that blends astrophysics, alien contact, and cosmic-scale mystery as part of his larger Galactic Center series.
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B.
Across the Sea of Suns
Across the Sea of Suns is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that follows humanity’s first deep-space expedition and its encounter with mysterious alien civilizations.
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C.
The Seer
The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
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D.
Tehanu
Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
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E.
The Witchwood
The Witchwood is a spooky, Worgen-themed Hearthstone expansion set in the haunted forests of Gilneas, introducing new cards and mechanics focused on eerie, supernatural gameplay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | David Brin ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
ⓘ
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ⓘ
linked to:
Locus Award
Nebula Award for Best Novel ⓘ Seiun Award for Best Translated Novel ⓘ
linked to:
Seiun Award
|
| centralTheme |
ethics of genetic engineering
ⓘ
first contact ⓘ galactic politics ⓘ uplift of non-human intelligences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | Jim Burns ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies |
humans
ⓘ
uplifted dolphins ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Uplift War ⓘ |
| follows | Sundiver ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
ⓘ
space opera ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | planned film adaptation (unproduced) ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
French translation
ⓘ
German translation ⓘ Japanese translation ⓘ Spanish translation ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-553-23433-1 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | PS3552.R4825 S7 1983 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Creideiki
ⓘ
Gillian Baskin ⓘ Hikahi ⓘ Keepiru ⓘ Toshio Iwashika ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableElement |
depiction of a complex galactic civilization
ⓘ
use of dolphin language and poetry ⓘ |
| oclcNumber | 9623044 ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 458 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hugo Award–winning works
ⓘ
Nebula Award–winning works ⓘ
linked to:
Nebula Award
Uplift Saga ⓘ
linked to:
Uplift Universe
|
| plotSummary | A mixed crew of uplifted dolphins and humans aboard the starship Streaker becomes stranded on the ocean world Kithrup after discovering a derelict fleet containing a galactic secret. ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Bantam Books ⓘ |
| series | Uplift Universe ⓘ |
| setting |
planet Kithrup
ⓘ
starship Streaker ⓘ |
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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.
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