To Live Again
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"To Live Again" is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a future where human personalities can be recorded and implanted into others, raising complex questions about identity, memory, and immortality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| To Live Again canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8494936 — 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: To Live Again Context triple: [Robert Silverberg, notableWork, To Live Again]
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A.
Learning to Live Again
"Learning to Live Again" is a country song best known for being recorded and popularized by Garth Brooks, reflecting on the emotional challenges of starting over after loss.
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B.
A New Life
"A New Life" is a powerful solo ballad from the musical Jekyll & Hyde, sung by the character Lucy as she dreams of escaping her troubled existence and starting over.
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C.
The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
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D.
Two Lives
Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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E.
A Night This Side of Dying
"A Night This Side of Dying" is a song by Carole King featured on her 1974 album *Wrap Around Joy*.
- 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: To Live Again Target entity description: "To Live Again" is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a future where human personalities can be recorded and implanted into others, raising complex questions about identity, memory, and immortality.
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A.
Learning to Live Again
"Learning to Live Again" is a country song best known for being recorded and popularized by Garth Brooks, reflecting on the emotional challenges of starting over after loss.
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B.
A New Life
"A New Life" is a powerful solo ballad from the musical Jekyll & Hyde, sung by the character Lucy as she dreams of escaping her troubled existence and starting over.
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C.
The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
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D.
Two Lives
Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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E.
A Night This Side of Dying
"A Night This Side of Dying" is a song by Carole King featured on her 1974 album *Wrap Around Joy*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert Silverberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
conflicts between host and implanted personality
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continuity of personal identity ⓘ economic value of famous personalities ⓘ legal status of recorded personalities ⓘ psychological consequences of hosting multiple personalities ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseFeature |
commercial market for recorded personalities
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legal ownership of personalities ⓘ status competition via implanted personalities ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Robert Silverberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
ethics of immortality
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identity crisis ⓘ life extension ⓘ memory persistence ⓘ mind uploading ⓘ personality recording technology ⓘ post-mortem existence ⓘ power of the wealthy elite ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | social science fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century science fiction ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
consciousness
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corporate power ⓘ ethics of technology ⓘ identity ⓘ immortality ⓘ memory ⓘ personality transfer ⓘ selfhood ⓘ social stratification ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
future society where human personalities can be recorded
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implantation of recorded personalities into living hosts ⓘ |
| portrays |
moral dilemmas of sharing a body
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social consequences of personality implantation ⓘ tension between original self and implanted minds ⓘ |
| setting | future Earth ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Robert Silverberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | novel ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: To Live Again Description of subject: "To Live Again" is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a future where human personalities can be recorded and implanted into others, raising complex questions about identity, memory, and immortality.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert Silverberg