The First Men in the Moon
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The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147429 — 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 First Men in the Moon Context triple: [Herbert George Wells, notableWork, The First Men in the Moon]
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A.
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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B.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a pioneering 1895 science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that explores time travel, social evolution, and dystopian futures through the journey of an unnamed Time Traveller.
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C.
Le Jules Verne
Le Jules Verne is a renowned Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant located on the second level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, offering fine French cuisine with panoramic city views.
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D.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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E.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
- 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 First Men in the Moon Target entity description: The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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A.
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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B.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a pioneering 1895 science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that explores time travel, social evolution, and dystopian futures through the journey of an unnamed Time Traveller.
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C.
Le Jules Verne
Le Jules Verne is a renowned Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant located on the second level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, offering fine French cuisine with panoramic city views.
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D.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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E.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The First Men in the Moon
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
First Men in the Moon (1964 film)
The First Men in the Moon self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The First Men in the Moon (1919 film)
The First Men in the Moon self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The First Men in the Moon (2010 film)
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| author |
Herbert George Wells
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surface form:
H. G. Wells
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| containsCharacter | Grand Lunar ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | underground lunar civilization ⓘ |
| describes | anti-gravity material ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies | Selenites ⓘ |
| featuresTechnology | Cavorite ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | serial ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Strand Magazine ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Sea Lady ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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scientific romance ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
British science fiction
ⓘ
depictions of the Moon in fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
capitalism
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contact with extraterrestrial life ⓘ imperialism ⓘ scientific experimentation ⓘ social organization ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| influenced | later lunar fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Edwardian literature
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early science fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. Cavor
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Mr. Bedford ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrator | Mr. Bedford ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early depiction of space travel using anti-gravity
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portrayal of insect-like lunar inhabitants ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Herbert George Wells
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surface form:
H. G. Wells bibliography
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| precededBy | Love and Mr. Lewisham ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Dr. Cavor
ⓘ
Mr. Bedford ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1901 ⓘ |
| publisher | George Newnes ⓘ |
| setting |
England
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Moon ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workLocationOfAuthor | England ⓘ |
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 First Men in the Moon Description of subject: The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The First Men in the Moon (1919 film)
this entity surface form:
First Men in the Moon (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
The First Men in the Moon (2010 film)
this entity surface form:
The First Men in the Moon universe
this entity surface form:
The First Men in the Moon universe
this entity surface form:
First Men in the Moon