Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s attempts to engineer and control the natural world in response to environmental crises, and the unintended consequences of those interventions.
All labels observed (1)
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| Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1795676 — 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: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Context triple: [Elizabeth Kolbert, notableWork, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future]
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A.
The End of Nature
The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
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B.
The Climate Book
The Climate Book is a comprehensive anthology on the climate crisis curated by activist Greta Thunberg, featuring contributions from scientists, experts, and writers explaining the causes, impacts, and solutions to global warming.
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C.
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
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D.
The Endangered Earth
The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
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E.
The Climate of Eden
The Climate of Eden is a novel by American playwright and director Moss Hart that explores complex human relationships and social tensions in a richly drawn setting.
- 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: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Target entity description: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s attempts to engineer and control the natural world in response to environmental crises, and the unintended consequences of those interventions.
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A.
The End of Nature
The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
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B.
The Climate Book
The Climate Book is a comprehensive anthology on the climate crisis curated by activist Greta Thunberg, featuring contributions from scientists, experts, and writers explaining the causes, impacts, and solutions to global warming.
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C.
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
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D.
The Endangered Earth
The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
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E.
The Climate of Eden
The Climate of Eden is a novel by American playwright and director Moss Hart that explores complex human relationships and social tensions in a richly drawn setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental book
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Elizabeth Kolbert ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
large-scale environmental interventions
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real-world scientific projects ⓘ |
| discusses |
environmental policy debates
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scientific research on climate interventions ⓘ |
| examines |
future of the natural world
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human attempts to control nature ⓘ technological fixes to environmental problems ⓘ unintended consequences of environmental interventions ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
engineering solutions to ecological problems
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responses to environmental crises ⓘ |
| follows |
The Sixth Extinction
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surface form:
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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| genre |
environmental literature
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Elizabeth Kolbert ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
journalistic
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scientific ⓘ |
| hasSubjectArea |
environmental science
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public policy ⓘ science writing ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
complexity of environmental systems
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ethical questions of geoengineering ⓘ irreversibility of environmental change ⓘ tension between human innovation and ecological limits ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers
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readers interested in climate and environment ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
anthropocene
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climate change ⓘ ecological intervention ⓘ environmental engineering ⓘ geoengineering ⓘ human impact on the environment ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Elizabeth Kolbert ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| publisher | Crown ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 21st century ⓘ |
| title | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future self-link ⓘ |
| workExampleOf | contemporary climate writing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Description of subject: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s attempts to engineer and control the natural world in response to environmental crises, and the unintended consequences of those interventions.
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