The Shape of Things to Come
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The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Shape of Things to Come canonical | 6 |
| Things to Come | 2 |
| Shape of Things to Come | 1 |
| The Shape of Things to Come universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147430 — 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 Shape of Things to Come Context triple: [Herbert George Wells, notableWork, The Shape of Things to Come]
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A.
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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B.
Love in the Future
Love in the Future is a 2013 R&B and soul studio album by John Legend that blends romantic ballads with contemporary production and includes the hit single "All of Me."
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C.
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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D.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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E.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
- 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 Shape of Things to Come Target entity description: The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
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A.
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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B.
Love in the Future
Love in the Future is a 2013 R&B and soul studio album by John Legend that blends romantic ballads with contemporary production and includes the hit single "All of Me."
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C.
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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D.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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E.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Shape of Things to Come
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Things to Come
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| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| author |
Herbert George Wells
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surface form:
H. G. Wells
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Herbert George Wells
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surface form:
H. G. Wells
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| depictsEvent |
breakdown of nation-states
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devastating world war ⓘ establishment of a world state ⓘ rise of airmen as a ruling elite ⓘ rule of warlords and dictators ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | William Cameron Menzies ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationScreenwriter |
Herbert George Wells
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surface form:
H. G. Wells
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| filmAdaptationTitle | Things to Come ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
future of civilization
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international politics ⓘ social engineering ⓘ war and peace ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
The Shape of Things to Come
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surface form:
Things to Come
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| inUniverseAuthor | Dr. Philip Raven ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | future history ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
global war
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planned society ⓘ rise of a technocratic world state ⓘ social collapse ⓘ technocracy ⓘ world government ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | fictional historical account ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed speculative chronology of future events
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prediction of large-scale aerial warfare ⓘ vision of a rationally planned world state ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | H. G. Wells bibliography ⓘ |
| philosophicalPerspective |
progressivist
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technocratic ⓘ utopian ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1933 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hutchinson ⓘ |
| setting | future Earth ⓘ |
| structure | chronological future history ⓘ |
| timePeriodCoveredInFiction | from 20th century to distant future ⓘ |
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 Shape of Things to Come Description of subject: The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
Referenced by (10)
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