Seldon Plan
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The Seldon Plan is a long-term, mathematically derived strategy in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series designed to guide humanity through a predicted dark age and shorten the collapse of galactic civilization.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seldon Plan canonical | 15 |
| the Seldon Plan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1799327 — 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: Seldon Plan Context triple: [Foundation, notableElement, Seldon Plan]
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Masterplan
"The Masterplan" is a 1995 B-side compilation track by British rock band Oasis, widely regarded by fans and critics as one of their finest songs despite initially not appearing on a studio album.
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C.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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D.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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E.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
- 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: Seldon Plan Target entity description: The Seldon Plan is a long-term, mathematically derived strategy in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series designed to guide humanity through a predicted dark age and shorten the collapse of galactic civilization.
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Masterplan
"The Masterplan" is a 1995 B-side compilation track by British rock band Oasis, widely regarded by fans and critics as one of their finest songs despite initially not appearing on a studio album.
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C.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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D.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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E.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional plan
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narrative concept ⓘ plot device ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Forward the Foundation
ⓘ
Foundation ⓘ Foundation and Empire ⓘ Foundation series (early stories) ⓘ
surface form:
Foundation series
Prelude to Foundation ⓘ Second Foundation ⓘ |
| assumes | individual actions average out statistically ⓘ |
| basedOn | psychohistory ⓘ |
| communicatedThrough | recorded Hari Seldon holographic messages ⓘ |
| creator | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| dependsOn | predictability of mass human behavior ⓘ |
| designedBy | Hari Seldon ⓘ |
| field | psychohistory ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
Astounding Stories of Super-Science
ⓘ
surface form:
Astounding Science Fiction magazine
|
| genre | science fiction concept ⓘ |
| goal |
establish a Second Galactic Empire
ⓘ
preserve human knowledge ⓘ reduce a 30,000-year dark age to about 1,000 years ⓘ shorten the period of galactic chaos ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Seldon Crisis
ⓘ
surface form:
Seldon Crises
Seldon Vault ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
determinism versus free will
ⓘ
rise and fall of civilizations ⓘ role of individuals in history ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
First Foundation
ⓘ
Second Foundation ⓘ |
| influences |
political development of the Foundation
ⓘ
religious and economic policies of the Foundation ⓘ technological priorities of the Foundation ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| method |
long-term sociohistorical forecasting
ⓘ
statistical prediction of large populations ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | Second Foundation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hari Seldon ⓘ |
| partOf | Foundation universe ⓘ |
| scope |
Galactic Empire
ⓘ
entire human galaxy-spanning civilization ⓘ |
| structure | sequence of Seldon Crises ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
The Mule
ⓘ
large deviations from psychohistorical assumptions ⓘ unpredictable mutants ⓘ |
| timeHorizon | approximately 1,000 years ⓘ |
| universe |
Asimov universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Galactic Empire–Foundation universe
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Seldon Plan Description of subject: The Seldon Plan is a long-term, mathematically derived strategy in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series designed to guide humanity through a predicted dark age and shorten the collapse of galactic civilization.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hari Seldon
subject surface form:
Hari Seldon
this entity surface form:
the Seldon Plan
subject surface form:
Harla Branno