Schismatrix
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Schismatrix is a seminal 1985 science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores posthuman evolution, political intrigue, and radical technological change in a far-future solar system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Schismatrix Plus | 2 |
| Schismatrix canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11492774 — 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: Schismatrix Context triple: [Bruce Sterling, notableWork, Schismatrix]
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A.
Ubik
Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores reality, perception, and corporate intrigue in a surreal, shifting future world.
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B.
Mother Night
Mother Night is a 1996 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, following an American playwright turned Nazi propagandist as he grapples with guilt, identity, and moral ambiguity.
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C.
The Shrike
"The Shrike" is a 1955 psychological drama film starring June Allyson and José Ferrer, adapted from Joseph Kramm’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a man trapped in a manipulative mental hospital system.
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D.
Baleyworld
Baleyworld is a human-colonized planet in Isaac Asimov’s Robot/Foundation universe, named after detective Elijah Baley and known for its significance in the expansion of Earth’s Spacer-descended societies.
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E.
Daimon Station
Daimon Station is a railway and subway station in Tokyo, Japan, serving as a key access point to the Shiba and Tokyo Tower area.
- 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: Schismatrix Target entity description: Schismatrix is a seminal 1985 science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores posthuman evolution, political intrigue, and radical technological change in a far-future solar system.
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A.
Ubik
Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores reality, perception, and corporate intrigue in a surreal, shifting future world.
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B.
Mother Night
Mother Night is a 1996 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, following an American playwright turned Nazi propagandist as he grapples with guilt, identity, and moral ambiguity.
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C.
The Shrike
"The Shrike" is a 1955 psychological drama film starring June Allyson and José Ferrer, adapted from Joseph Kramm’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a man trapped in a manipulative mental hospital system.
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D.
Baleyworld
Baleyworld is a human-colonized planet in Isaac Asimov’s Robot/Foundation universe, named after detective Elijah Baley and known for its significance in the expansion of Earth’s Spacer-descended societies.
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E.
Daimon Station
Daimon Station is a railway and subway station in Tokyo, Japan, serving as a key access point to the Shiba and Tokyo Tower area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Bruce Sterling ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coverArtist | Jim Burns ⓘ |
| describedAs | seminal work of 1980s science fiction ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
body modification
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ideological conflict ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ posthuman evolution ⓘ posthuman politics ⓘ radical technological change ⓘ space colonization ⓘ transhumanism ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk-adjacent fiction
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasConflictBetween | Shapers and Mechanists ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Schismatrix Plus
ⓘ
linked to:
Schismatrix
|
| hasFictionalFaction |
Mechanists
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Shapers ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
postcyberpunk movement
ⓘ
space opera genre ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasSettingLocation | various habitats in the Solar System ⓘ |
| hasSubgenreElement |
political science fiction
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posthuman science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Schismatrix Plus
ⓘ
linked to:
Schismatrix
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | cyberpunk era science fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Abelard Lindsay ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex political worldbuilding
ⓘ
detailed depiction of posthuman societies ⓘ innovative treatment of transhumanist ideas ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Shaper/Mechanist universe ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher | Arbor House ⓘ |
| setting | far-future Solar System ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPublication | 1980s ⓘ |
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: Schismatrix Description of subject: Schismatrix is a seminal 1985 science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores posthuman evolution, political intrigue, and radical technological change in a far-future solar system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Schismatrix
linked to: Schismatrix