"WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us"
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"WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" is a nonfiction book by technology thought leader Tim O’Reilly that explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the economy, work, and society, and argues for consciously steering innovation toward more humane outcomes.
All labels observed (3)
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| "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" canonical | 1 |
| WTF?: What's the Future | 1 |
| WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1496466 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" Context triple: [Tim O'Reilly, notableWork, "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us"]
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A.
The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
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B.
The Future is Yours
"The Future is Yours" is the official motto of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, reflecting the organization’s emphasis on shaping historical memory and values for coming generations.
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C.
How Tomorrow Moves
"How Tomorrow Moves" is the corporate slogan used by CSX Transportation to emphasize its role in modern, forward-looking freight rail services.
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D.
Victims of the Future
Victims of the Future is a 1983 hard rock and heavy metal album by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, known for its powerful guitar work and the hit single "Empty Rooms."
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E.
Profiles of the Future
Profiles of the Future is a speculative non-fiction book by Arthur C. Clarke that explores the possibilities and implications of future scientific and technological developments.
- 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: "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" Target entity description: "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" is a nonfiction book by technology thought leader Tim O’Reilly that explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the economy, work, and society, and argues for consciously steering innovation toward more humane outcomes.
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A.
The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
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B.
The Future is Yours
"The Future is Yours" is the official motto of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, reflecting the organization’s emphasis on shaping historical memory and values for coming generations.
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C.
How Tomorrow Moves
"How Tomorrow Moves" is the corporate slogan used by CSX Transportation to emphasize its role in modern, forward-looking freight rail services.
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D.
Victims of the Future
Victims of the Future is a 1983 hard rock and heavy metal album by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, known for its powerful guitar work and the hit single "Empty Rooms."
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E.
Profiles of the Future
Profiles of the Future is a speculative non-fiction book by Arthur C. Clarke that explores the possibilities and implications of future scientific and technological developments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Tim O'Reilly ⓘ |
| authorKnownFor |
O'Reilly Media
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popularizing the term Web 2.0 ⓘ |
| authorOccupation |
entrepreneur
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technology thought leader ⓘ |
| centralArgument |
emerging technologies must be consciously steered toward humane and socially beneficial outcomes
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platforms and algorithms should be designed to create shared prosperity rather than extractive value ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
business
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future studies ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasForm |
digital edition
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hardcover edition ⓘ paperback edition ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
business leaders
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general readers interested in the future ⓘ policy makers ⓘ technology professionals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| publisherImprint |
Harper Perennial
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surface form:
Harper Business
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| shortTitle |
"WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us"
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surface form:
WTF?: What's the Future
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| subject |
algorithmic decision-making
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artificial intelligence ⓘ automation ⓘ civic responsibility of technologists ⓘ economic inequality ⓘ emerging technologies ⓘ future of the economy ⓘ future of work ⓘ platform economy ⓘ regulation of technology ⓘ social impact of technology ⓘ |
| theme |
designing systems for resilience
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long-term thinking about innovation ⓘ metrics and incentives in digital platforms ⓘ moral responsibility in technology design ⓘ relationship between technology and capitalism ⓘ role of government in shaping markets ⓘ |
| title |
"WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us"
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surface form:
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
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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: "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" Description of subject: "WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us" is a nonfiction book by technology thought leader Tim O’Reilly that explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the economy, work, and society, and argues for consciously steering innovation toward more humane outcomes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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this entity surface form:
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
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shortTitle
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"WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us"
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subject surface form:
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
this entity surface form:
WTF?: What's the Future