City
E201052
"City" is a classic science fiction fix-up novel by Clifford D. Simak, renowned for its poignant exploration of humanity’s decline and the rise of intelligent dogs in a far-future Earth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| City canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1800267 — 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.
Target entity: City Context triple: [Golden Age of Science Fiction, notableWork, City]
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City Loop
City Loop is Melbourne’s central underground railway system that circulates suburban trains through key inner-city stations.
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B.
المدينة
المدينة هي الاسم العربي المختصر لمدينة المدينة المنورة، إحدى أقدس المدن في الإسلام وثاني أقدس موقع بعد مكة المكرمة.
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C.
Urban Jungle
Urban Jungle is a San Diego Zoo exhibit area featuring close-up encounters with giraffes and other savanna animals in an immersive, city-themed setting.
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D.
Ville
Ville is a common Finnish male given name, especially prevalent in the late 20th century.
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E.
New City
New City is a suburban hamlet and census-designated place in Rockland County, New York, known as a residential and commercial center for the surrounding area.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: City Target entity description: "City" is a classic science fiction fix-up novel by Clifford D. Simak, renowned for its poignant exploration of humanity’s decline and the rise of intelligent dogs in a far-future Earth.
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A.
City Loop
City Loop is Melbourne’s central underground railway system that circulates suburban trains through key inner-city stations.
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B.
المدينة
المدينة هي الاسم العربي المختصر لمدينة المدينة المنورة، إحدى أقدس المدن في الإسلام وثاني أقدس موقع بعد مكة المكرمة.
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C.
Urban Jungle
Urban Jungle is a San Diego Zoo exhibit area featuring close-up encounters with giraffes and other savanna animals in an immersive, city-themed setting.
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D.
Ville
Ville is a common Finnish male given name, especially prevalent in the late 20th century.
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E.
New City
New City is a suburban hamlet and census-designated place in Rockland County, New York, known as a residential and commercial center for the surrounding area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fix-up novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Clifford D. Simak ⓘ |
| awarded | International Fantasy Award ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| basedOn | short stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
decline of humanity
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pacifism ⓘ post-human future ⓘ relationship between humans and animals ⓘ rise of intelligent dogs ⓘ utopian and dystopian futures ⓘ |
| containsStory |
Aesop's fables
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surface form:
"Aesop"
"Census" ⓘ "City" ⓘ "Desertion" ⓘ "Hobbies" ⓘ "Huddling Place" ⓘ Paradise ⓘ
surface form:
"Paradise"
"The Simple Way" ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Frank Kelly Freas ⓘ |
| criticalReception | renowned for poignant and philosophical tone ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| frameDevice | dog scholars commenting on ancient human legends ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-441-80430-0 ⓘ |
| influenced | later works on post-humanism in science fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jenkins
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Jerome Webster ⓘ Joe ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | frame narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of dogs as inheritors of Earth
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exploration of the obsolescence of cities ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
intelligent dogs
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mutated humans ⓘ |
| originalFormat | fix-up of previously published short stories ⓘ |
| publisher | Gnome Press ⓘ |
| setting | far-future Earth ⓘ |
| structure | sequence of linked stories with interstitial notes ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStories | thousands of years into the future ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: City Description of subject: "City" is a classic science fiction fix-up novel by Clifford D. Simak, renowned for its poignant exploration of humanity’s decline and the rise of intelligent dogs in a far-future Earth.
Referenced by (3)
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