Dayworld
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Dayworld is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer that depicts an overpopulated future where people are only allowed to live one day a week under a rigidly scheduled society.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dayworld canonical | 2 |
| Dayworld Rebel | 2 |
| Dayworld series | 1 |
| Dayworld trilogy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9868798 — 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: Dayworld Context triple: [Philip José Farmer, notableWork, Dayworld]
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A.
The Shrouded Planet
The Shrouded Planet is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel, co-written by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Robert Randall, that explores an alien world's culture and its complex encounter with human explorers.
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B.
Counter-Earth
Counter-Earth is a hypothetical celestial body proposed in ancient Greek astronomy, imagined as a planet always hidden behind the Sun and used to explain observed cosmic order and numerical harmony.
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C.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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D.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
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E.
Moonrakers
Moonrakers is a traditional nickname for the inhabitants of Slaithwaite, a village in West Yorkshire, England.
- 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: Dayworld Target entity description: Dayworld is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer that depicts an overpopulated future where people are only allowed to live one day a week under a rigidly scheduled society.
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A.
The Shrouded Planet
The Shrouded Planet is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel, co-written by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Robert Randall, that explores an alien world's culture and its complex encounter with human explorers.
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B.
Counter-Earth
Counter-Earth is a hypothetical celestial body proposed in ancient Greek astronomy, imagined as a planet always hidden behind the Sun and used to explain observed cosmic order and numerical harmony.
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C.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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D.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
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E.
Moonrakers
Moonrakers is a traditional nickname for the inhabitants of Slaithwaite, a village in West Yorkshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Philip José Farmer ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
bureaucracy
ⓘ
identity ⓘ overpopulation ⓘ social control ⓘ |
| characterOccupation | daybreaker ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
rigidly scheduled society
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society where people are allowed to live only one day per week ⓘ |
| explores |
consequences of extreme population control policies
ⓘ
fragmentation of personal identity across multiple legal identities ⓘ resistance against totalitarian systems ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Dayworld Breakup
ⓘ
Dayworld Rebel ⓘ
linked to:
Dayworld
|
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Dayworld Breakup
ⓘ
Dayworld Rebel ⓘ
linked to:
Dayworld
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century science fiction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dayworld trilogy
ⓘ
linked to:
Dayworld
|
| protagonist | Jeff Caird ⓘ |
| publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons
ⓘ
linked to:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
|
| series |
Dayworld series
ⓘ
linked to:
Dayworld
|
| setting | overpopulated future Earth ⓘ |
| subgenre |
dystopian fiction
ⓘ
social science fiction ⓘ |
| workOf | Philip José Farmer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Dayworld Description of subject: Dayworld is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer that depicts an overpopulated future where people are only allowed to live one day a week under a rigidly scheduled society.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.