Islands in the Net
E929000
Islands in the Net is a 1988 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores global networks, corporate power, and political upheaval in a near-future world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Islands in the Net canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11492773 — 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: Islands in the Net Context triple: [Bruce Sterling, notableWork, Islands in the Net]
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A.
The Network
The Network is a mysterious, satirical new wave/punk side project band believed to feature Green Day members, including Billie Joe Armstrong, performing under disguises and pseudonyms.
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B.
The Network
The Network is an organization or collective with which Balducci is professionally or formally associated.
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C.
The Network
The Network is a powerful, clandestine organization in the Utopia universe that orchestrates widespread control and manipulation from behind the scenes.
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D.
Without a Net
"Without a Net" is a live album by the Grateful Dead, released in 1990 and celebrated for its high-quality recordings from the band’s late-1980s concert performances.
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E.
The Net
The Net is a 1995 techno-thriller film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer analyst whose identity is erased by cybercriminals, directed by Irwin Winkler.
- 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: Islands in the Net Target entity description: Islands in the Net is a 1988 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores global networks, corporate power, and political upheaval in a near-future world.
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A.
The Network
The Network is a mysterious, satirical new wave/punk side project band believed to feature Green Day members, including Billie Joe Armstrong, performing under disguises and pseudonyms.
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B.
The Network
The Network is an organization or collective with which Balducci is professionally or formally associated.
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C.
The Network
The Network is a powerful, clandestine organization in the Utopia universe that orchestrates widespread control and manipulation from behind the scenes.
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D.
Without a Net
"Without a Net" is a live album by the Grateful Dead, released in 1990 and celebrated for its high-quality recordings from the band’s late-1980s concert performances.
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E.
The Net
The Net is a 1995 techno-thriller film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer analyst whose identity is erased by cybercriminals, directed by Irwin Winkler.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cyberpunk novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Bruce Sterling ⓘ |
| awarded | John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depictsOrganizationType |
data havens
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multinational corporations ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
information warfare
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networked society ⓘ post-national politics ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
corporate power
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data privacy ⓘ global computer networks ⓘ globalization ⓘ information economy ⓘ political upheaval ⓘ surveillance ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Jim Burns ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-87795-947-5 ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | corporate public relations specialist ⓘ |
| hasSequelRelation | sharesUniverseWith Schismatrix stories ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Africa
ⓘ
Grenada ⓘ Japan ⓘ Texas ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
David Webster
ⓘ
Laura Webster ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
ⓘ
Locus Award for Best SF Novel ⓘ
linked to:
Locus Award
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| notableFor |
critique of corporate sovereignty
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early depiction of global data networks ⓘ |
| pageCount | 382 ⓘ |
| partOfMovement | cyberpunk ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| publisher | Arbor House ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | near future ⓘ |
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: Islands in the Net Description of subject: Islands in the Net is a 1988 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores global networks, corporate power, and political upheaval in a near-future world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.