Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury was an American author best known for his imaginative and socially critical science fiction and fantasy works, including the classic novel "Fahrenheit 451."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Bradbury canonical | 44 |
| Bradbury | 4 |
| American author Ray Bradbury | 1 |
| Ray Bradbury bibliography | 1 |
| Ray Douglas Bradbury | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147450 — 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: Ray Bradbury Context triple: [Herbert George Wells, influenced, Ray Bradbury]
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A.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was a prolific American science fiction author and biochemist renowned for works like the Foundation series and his popular science writing.
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B.
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction writer and futurist best known for works like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and for popularizing concepts such as geostationary communications satellites.
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C.
Herbert George Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer best known as a pioneer of science fiction, authoring classics such as "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine," and "The Invisible Man."
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D.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley was a British writer and intellectual best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World" and his explorations of social, scientific, and spiritual themes.
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E.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer best known for portraying the Jazz Age in works such as "The Great Gatsby."
- 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: Ray Bradbury Target entity description: Ray Bradbury was an American author best known for his imaginative and socially critical science fiction and fantasy works, including the classic novel "Fahrenheit 451."
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A.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was a prolific American science fiction author and biochemist renowned for works like the Foundation series and his popular science writing.
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B.
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction writer and futurist best known for works like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and for popularizing concepts such as geostationary communications satellites.
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C.
Herbert George Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer best known as a pioneer of science fiction, authoring classics such as "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine," and "The Invisible Man."
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D.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley was a British writer and intellectual best known for his dystopian novel "Brave New World" and his explorations of social, scientific, and spiritual themes.
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E.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer best known for portraying the Jazz Age in works such as "The Great Gatsby."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bram Stoker Award
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National Medal of Arts ⓘ Prometheus Award ⓘ Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and Award ⓘ
surface form:
Pulitzer Prize Special Citation
World Fantasy Award ⓘ
surface form:
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
|
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-08-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-06-05 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ray Bradbury
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bradbury
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| fullName |
Ray Bradbury
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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| genre |
fantasy
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horror fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Ray ⓘ |
| hasSignatureWorkTheme |
censorship
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dystopia ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edgar Allan Poe
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Herbert George Wells ⓘ
surface form:
H. G. Wells
Jules Verne ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1947 ⓘ |
| middleName | Douglas ⓘ |
| movement | Golden Age of Science Fiction ⓘ |
| name | Ray Bradbury self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dandelion Wine
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Fahrenheit 451 ⓘ Something Wicked This Way Comes ⓘ The Illustrated Man ⓘ The Martian Chronicles ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Waukegan, Illinois
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surface form:
Waukegan, Illinois, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| religion | Baptist (raised) ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Marguerite McClure Bradbury ⓘ |
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: Ray Bradbury Description of subject: Ray Bradbury was an American author best known for his imaginative and socially critical science fiction and fantasy works, including the classic novel "Fahrenheit 451."
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Playboy