short story "Reason"
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"Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring the robot QT-1 and exploring themes of faith, logic, and human–robot relationships within his Robot series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| short story "Reason" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8492881 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: short story "Reason" Context triple: [Dr. Susan Calvin, appearsIn, short story "Reason"]
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A.
short story "How"
"How" is a short story included in Roxane Gay's collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of womanhood, trauma, and complex relationships.
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B.
short story "The Sentinel"
"The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's encounter with an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, later serving as a key inspiration for the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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C.
short story "The Sacrifice of Darkness"
"The Sacrifice of Darkness" is a short story by Roxane Gay that blends elements of fantasy and allegory to explore themes of loss, guilt, and resilience in a world literally and figuratively consumed by darkness.
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D.
short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
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E.
A Very Short Story
"A Very Short Story" is a brief World War I–themed narrative by Ernest Hemingway, known for its concise style and emotional understatement, later collected in his book *In Our Time*.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: short story "Reason" Target entity description: "Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring the robot QT-1 and exploring themes of faith, logic, and human–robot relationships within his Robot series.
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A.
short story "How"
"How" is a short story included in Roxane Gay's collection *Difficult Women*, exploring themes of womanhood, trauma, and complex relationships.
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B.
short story "The Sentinel"
"The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's encounter with an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, later serving as a key inspiration for the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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C.
short story "The Sacrifice of Darkness"
"The Sacrifice of Darkness" is a short story by Roxane Gay that blends elements of fantasy and allegory to explore themes of loss, guilt, and resilience in a world literally and figuratively consumed by darkness.
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D.
short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
"In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
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E.
A Very Short Story
"A Very Short Story" is a brief World War I–themed narrative by Ernest Hemingway, known for its concise style and emotional understatement, later collected in his book *In Our Time*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| centralRobot | QT-1 ⓘ |
| chronologicalPositionInSeries | early Robot series story ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| exploresConcept |
conflict between empirical evidence and belief
ⓘ
epistemology ⓘ robot reasoning ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Donovan
ⓘ
Powell ⓘ QT-1 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| followsRuleSystem | Three Laws of Robotics ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitleStyle |
"Reason" (short story)
ⓘ
linked to:
“Reason”
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| hasLaterForm | book collection reprint ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRoleFor | Powell and Donovan ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | magazine short story ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of philosophical robots ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
faith ⓘ human–robot relationships ⓘ logic ⓘ religion and technology ⓘ |
| mainCharacterType | robot ⓘ |
| originalPublicationMedium | Astounding Science Fiction ⓘ |
| partOf | I, Robot ⓘ |
| partOfCollection |
I, Robot (short story collection)
ⓘ
linked to:
I, Robot
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| publisher | Street & Smith ⓘ |
| series | Robot series ⓘ |
| setting |
solar energy transmission station
ⓘ
space station ⓘ |
| universe |
Asimov’s Robot universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Asimov's positronic robot universe
|
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: short story "Reason" Description of subject: "Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring the robot QT-1 and exploring themes of faith, logic, and human–robot relationships within his Robot series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.