Neal Asher
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Neal Asher is a British science fiction author best known for his fast-paced, technology-rich space opera novels, particularly the Polity series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neal Asher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11636567 — 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: Neal Asher Context triple: [Gollancz, hasPublishedAuthor, Neal Asher]
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A.
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
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B.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
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C.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a Northern Irish football manager and former player best known for his long-term and highly successful tenure in charge of Crusaders FC.
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D.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
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E.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
- 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: Neal Asher Target entity description: Neal Asher is a British science fiction author best known for his fast-paced, technology-rich space opera novels, particularly the Polity series.
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A.
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
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B.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
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C.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a Northern Irish football manager and former player best known for his long-term and highly successful tenure in charge of Crusaders FC.
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D.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
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E.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
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person ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
space opera literature
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speculative fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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space opera ⓘ |
| hasBlog | Neal Asher official blog ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Polity universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
advanced technology
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alien species ⓘ artificial intelligence ⓘ post-humanism ⓘ space warfare ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Iain M. Banks
NERFINISHED
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Larry Niven NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert A. Heinlein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Space Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableSeries |
Agent Cormac series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Owner trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ Polity universe NERFINISHED ⓘ Spatterjay series NERFINISHED ⓘ Transformation series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brass Man
NERFINISHED
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Gridlinked NERFINISHED ⓘ Hilldiggers NERFINISHED ⓘ Jupiter War NERFINISHED ⓘ Line War NERFINISHED ⓘ Polity Agent NERFINISHED ⓘ Polity series NERFINISHED ⓘ Prador Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow of the Scorpion NERFINISHED ⓘ The Departure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ The Technician NERFINISHED ⓘ Zero Point NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
science fiction author ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Billericay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
action-oriented
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fast-paced ⓘ technology-rich ⓘ |
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: Neal Asher Description of subject: Neal Asher is a British science fiction author best known for his fast-paced, technology-rich space opera novels, particularly the Polity series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.