The Wailing Asteroid
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The Wailing Asteroid is a 1960 science fiction novel by Murray Leinster about humanity’s response to a mysterious signal from an approaching asteroid that hints at an ancient interstellar war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Wailing Asteroid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10217017 — 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: The Wailing Asteroid Context triple: [Murray Leinster, notableWork, The Wailing Asteroid]
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A.
Astrodoras
Astrodoras is a genus of thorny catfish native to South American freshwater habitats.
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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.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
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D.
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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E.
Earth Intruders
"Earth Intruders" is a rhythmically intense, politically charged experimental pop song by Icelandic artist Björk from her 2007 album *Volta*.
- 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: The Wailing Asteroid Target entity description: The Wailing Asteroid is a 1960 science fiction novel by Murray Leinster about humanity’s response to a mysterious signal from an approaching asteroid that hints at an ancient interstellar war.
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A.
Astrodoras
Astrodoras is a genus of thorny catfish native to South American freshwater habitats.
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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.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
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D.
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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E.
Earth Intruders
"Earth Intruders" is a rhythmically intense, politically charged experimental pop song by Icelandic artist Björk from her 2007 album *Volta*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| adaptationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector |
Monty Berman
ⓘ
Robert S. Baker ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| adaptationTitle | The Terrornauts ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| author | Murray Leinster ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
humanity’s response to an extraterrestrial threat
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legacy of ancient interstellar conflict ⓘ rapid technological innovation under pressure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresElement |
alien enemy fleet
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ancient alien technology ⓘ approaching asteroid ⓘ mysterious radio signal ⓘ space battles ⓘ |
| format | paperback ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Terrornauts ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Colonel Hixon
ⓘ
Dr. Cavanaugh ⓘ Sandy ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtBy | Ed Emshwiller ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-441-78340-0 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Joe Burke ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 160 ⓘ |
| hasWorkInSeries | standalone novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining mystery signal narrative with large-scale space warfare
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depicting reverse-engineering of alien technology to defend Earth ⓘ |
| originalMagazine | Amazing Stories ⓘ |
| originalPublicationMedium | magazine ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCareerPhase | late career of Murray Leinster ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Humanity detects a mysterious signal from an approaching asteroid that reveals traces of an ancient interstellar war. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ace Books ⓘ |
| setting |
asteroid fortress
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near future Earth ⓘ space ⓘ |
| subgenre |
alien invasion fiction
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first contact fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 20th century ⓘ |
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: The Wailing Asteroid Description of subject: The Wailing Asteroid is a 1960 science fiction novel by Murray Leinster about humanity’s response to a mysterious signal from an approaching asteroid that hints at an ancient interstellar war.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.