Crake
E127041
Crake is a brilliant but morally ambiguous geneticist and central figure in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, whose radical bioengineering schemes help trigger a global catastrophe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crake canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T968765 — 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: Crake Context triple: [MaddAddam, mainCharacter, Crake]
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A.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that explores genetic engineering, corporate power, and environmental collapse through a post-apocalyptic narrative.
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B.
MaddAddam
MaddAddam is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that concludes her speculative trilogy exploring genetic engineering, ecological collapse, and post-apocalyptic survival.
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C.
The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that explores a bioengineered apocalypse and its survivors from new perspectives within the world of the MaddAddam trilogy.
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D.
City of the Beasts
City of the Beasts is a young adult fantasy adventure novel by Isabel Allende that follows a boy’s mystical journey into the Amazon rainforest, blending magical realism with environmental and indigenous themes.
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E.
The Green One
The Green One is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian cobra goddess Wadjet, who served as a protective deity and symbol of royal authority, especially associated with Lower Egypt and the pharaoh.
- 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: Crake Target entity description: Crake is a brilliant but morally ambiguous geneticist and central figure in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, whose radical bioengineering schemes help trigger a global catastrophe.
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A.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that explores genetic engineering, corporate power, and environmental collapse through a post-apocalyptic narrative.
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B.
MaddAddam
MaddAddam is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that concludes her speculative trilogy exploring genetic engineering, ecological collapse, and post-apocalyptic survival.
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C.
The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood is a dystopian science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood that explores a bioengineered apocalypse and its survivors from new perspectives within the world of the MaddAddam trilogy.
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D.
City of the Beasts
City of the Beasts is a young adult fantasy adventure novel by Isabel Allende that follows a boy’s mystical journey into the Amazon rainforest, blending magical realism with environmental and indigenous themes.
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E.
The Green One
The Green One is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian cobra goddess Wadjet, who served as a protective deity and symbol of royal authority, especially associated with Lower Egypt and the pharaoh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ geneticist ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
dystopian fiction
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speculative fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
MaddAddam
ⓘ
surface form:
MaddAddam trilogy
|
| appearsInWork |
MaddAddam
ⓘ
Oryx and Crake ⓘ The Year of the Flood ⓘ |
| causes |
global pandemic
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near-extinction of humans ⓘ |
| createdBy | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| creates |
BlyssPluss pill
ⓘ
Crakers ⓘ |
| designs | Crakers ⓘ |
| develops | BlyssPluss pill ⓘ |
| diesBy | gunshot ⓘ |
| education |
Francis Crick Institute
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surface form:
Watson-Crick Institute
|
| ethicalView |
anti-natalist
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extreme consequentialism ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Crake self-link ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Snowman ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Glenn ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasIntelligenceLevel | genius ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
genetic engineer
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researcher ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Oryx
ⓘ
Snowman ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
brilliant
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morally ambiguous ⓘ nihilistic ⓘ rationalist ⓘ utilitarian ⓘ |
| killedBy | Snowman ⓘ |
| kills | Oryx ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire to eliminate human suffering
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desire to redesign humanity ⓘ disgust with human society ⓘ |
| plans | global depopulation ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
architect of apocalypse
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creator of posthuman species ⓘ |
| setInUniverse |
MaddAddam
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surface form:
MaddAddam universe
|
| specializesIn |
bioengineering
ⓘ
genetic modification ⓘ |
| worksAt | RejoovenEsense ⓘ |
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: Crake Description of subject: Crake is a brilliant but morally ambiguous geneticist and central figure in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, whose radical bioengineering schemes help trigger a global catastrophe.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.