short story "Little Lost Robot"
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"Little Lost Robot" is an Isaac Asimov science fiction short story in which robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin must locate a modified robot that can circumvent the First Law of Robotics among a group of identical machines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| short story "Little Lost Robot" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8492883 — 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 "Little Lost Robot" Context triple: [Dr. Susan Calvin, appearsIn, short story "Little Lost Robot"]
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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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B.
Three Laws of Robotics
The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of fictional ethical rules devised by Isaac Asimov to govern the behavior of intelligent robots and prevent them from harming humans.
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C.
Arthur C. Clarke story "Guardian Angel"
"Guardian Angel" is Arthur C. Clarke’s original novella that introduced the core premise and alien visitors later expanded into his classic science fiction novel Childhood’s End.
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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.
The Runaway Robot
The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
- 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: short story "Little Lost Robot" Target entity description: "Little Lost Robot" is an Isaac Asimov science fiction short story in which robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin must locate a modified robot that can circumvent the First Law of Robotics among a group of identical machines.
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A.
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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B.
Three Laws of Robotics
The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of fictional ethical rules devised by Isaac Asimov to govern the behavior of intelligent robots and prevent them from harming humans.
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C.
Arthur C. Clarke story "Guardian Angel"
"Guardian Angel" is Arthur C. Clarke’s original novella that introduced the core premise and alien visitors later expanded into his classic science fiction novel Childhood’s End.
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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.
The Runaway Robot
The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
robotics fiction
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science fiction short story ⓘ |
| author | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| centralConflict | locating a modified robot among identical robots ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| explores | logical consequences of altering robotic laws ⓘ |
| featuresConcept |
Three Laws of Robotics
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modified First Law of Robotics ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Astounding Science Fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
robot stories
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Bogert
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Lanning ⓘ |
| hasLawVariant | First Law modified to omit protection of humans from harm by inaction ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | I, Robot ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Golden Age of Science Fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. Susan Calvin
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Susan Calvin ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Susan Calvin
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| mainCharacterOccupation | robopsychologist ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | I, Robot ⓘ |
| plotSummary |
Dr. Susan Calvin must identify a robot with a weakened First Law hidden among many identical robots.
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linked to:
First Law of Robotics
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| publicationType | short story ⓘ |
| publisher | Street & Smith ⓘ |
| robotManufacturer | U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation ⓘ |
| robotTypeFeatured | NS-2 robot ⓘ |
| series | Robot series ⓘ |
| setting | a space station ⓘ |
| theme |
dangers of modifying fundamental safety constraints in robots
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human responsibility in technology design ⓘ limits of robotic obedience ⓘ |
| universe |
Asimov's Robot universe
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linked to:
Asimov's positronic robot universe
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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 "Little Lost Robot" Description of subject: "Little Lost Robot" is an Isaac Asimov science fiction short story in which robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin must locate a modified robot that can circumvent the First Law of Robotics among a group of identical machines.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.