First Law
E206698
First Law is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the consequences of a robot apparently violating the foundational Three Laws of Robotics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Law canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835448 — 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: First Law Context triple: [The Rest of the Robots, containsWork, First Law]
-
A.
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's first law of motion states that an object remains at rest or in uniform straight-line motion unless acted upon by a net external force, expressing the principle of inertia.
-
B.
FIRST
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an international youth organization that runs robotics competitions and programs to inspire students’ interest and participation in science, technology, engineering, and math.
-
C.
First Principles
First Principles is a foundational philosophical work by Herbert Spencer that outlines his synthetic philosophy, attempting to unify knowledge across the sciences, metaphysics, and ethics.
-
D.
Kluge's law
Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
-
E.
Rule 1
Rule 1 is the introductory provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that sets out their scope and purpose in governing criminal proceedings in U.S. federal courts.
- 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: First Law Target entity description: First Law is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the consequences of a robot apparently violating the foundational Three Laws of Robotics.
-
A.
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's first law of motion states that an object remains at rest or in uniform straight-line motion unless acted upon by a net external force, expressing the principle of inertia.
-
B.
FIRST
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an international youth organization that runs robotics competitions and programs to inspire students’ interest and participation in science, technology, engineering, and math.
-
C.
First Principles
First Principles is a foundational philosophical work by Herbert Spencer that outlines his synthetic philosophy, attempting to unify knowledge across the sciences, metaphysics, and ethics.
-
D.
Kluge's law
Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
-
E.
Rule 1
Rule 1 is the introductory provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that sets out their scope and purpose in governing criminal proceedings in U.S. federal courts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction short story ⓘ |
| author | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
First Law of Robotics
ⓘ
Three Laws of Robotics ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| explores |
conflict between programmed laws and emergent behavior
ⓘ
limits of robotic programming ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Emma-2
ⓘ
Gregory Powell ⓘ Mike Donovan ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Asimov's positronic robot universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Asimov's Robot universe
|
| hasHumanCharacter |
Gregory Powell
ⓘ
Mike Donovan ⓘ |
| hasPublicationForm | magazine short story ⓘ |
| hasRobotCharacter | Emma-2 ⓘ |
| hasTitle | First Law self-link ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOf | Asimov's robot short stories ⓘ |
| series | Robot series ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
Saturn
ⓘ
Saturnian moon ⓘ |
| theme |
Three Laws of Robotics
ⓘ
apparent violation of the First Law of Robotics ⓘ parental instinct in robots ⓘ robot behavior ⓘ |
| workType | short fiction ⓘ |
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: First Law Description of subject: First Law is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the consequences of a robot apparently violating the foundational Three Laws of Robotics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.