The Last Man
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The Last Man is a pioneering 1826 science fiction novel by Mary Shelley that portrays a future world devastated by plague and explores themes of isolation, loss, and the end of humanity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Last Man canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1423206 — 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 Last Man Context triple: [Mary Shelley, notableWork, The Last Man]
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A.
Y: The Last Man
Y: The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction comic book series (and later TV adaptation) about the lone surviving man and his monkey after a mysterious event wipes out every other male mammal on Earth.
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B.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
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C.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells that explores themes of vivisection, morality, and the boundaries between humans and animals on a remote island ruled by a mad scientist.
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D.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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E.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is a prose work by Walt Whitman that blends memoir, nature writing, and reflections on the American Civil War and 19th-century life.
- 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 Last Man Target entity description: The Last Man is a pioneering 1826 science fiction novel by Mary Shelley that portrays a future world devastated by plague and explores themes of isolation, loss, and the end of humanity.
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A.
Y: The Last Man
Y: The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction comic book series (and later TV adaptation) about the lone surviving man and his monkey after a mysterious event wipes out every other male mammal on Earth.
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B.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
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C.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells that explores themes of vivisection, morality, and the boundaries between humans and animals on a remote island ruled by a mad scientist.
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D.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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E.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is a prose work by Walt Whitman that blends memoir, nature writing, and reflections on the American Civil War and 19th-century life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dystopian novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Mary Shelley ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReceptionAtPublication | largely negative ⓘ |
| depicts |
collapse of civilization
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global plague ⓘ last survivor of humanity ⓘ |
| firstEditionLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| genre |
apocalyptic fiction
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plague fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterBasedOn |
Lord Byron
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
plague narratives in science fiction
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post-apocalyptic literature ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistRole | last man on earth ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Lord Byron
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ |
| laterReception | recognized as an early science fiction classic ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Adrian, Earl of Windsor
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Idris ⓘ Lionel Verney ⓘ Lord Raymond ⓘ Perdita ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | found manuscript ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 470 pages ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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surface form:
Frankenstein
|
| publicationDate | 1826 ⓘ |
| publisher | Henry Colburn ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 21st century ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Constantinople (probable)
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surface form:
Constantinople
England ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
| structure | three volumes ⓘ |
| theme |
end of humanity
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fate and prophecy ⓘ friendship ⓘ grief ⓘ individual versus society ⓘ isolation ⓘ loss ⓘ plague ⓘ political idealism ⓘ |
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 Last Man Description of subject: The Last Man is a pioneering 1826 science fiction novel by Mary Shelley that portrays a future world devastated by plague and explores themes of isolation, loss, and the end of humanity.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Shelley