Tides of Light
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Tides of Light is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, part of his Galactic Center series exploring humanity’s struggle against powerful machine intelligences in a distant future.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tides of Light canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835534 — 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: Tides of Light Context triple: [Gregory Benford, notableWork, Tides of Light]
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A.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
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B.
In Search of the Light
In Search of the Light is a book by psychologist and skeptic Susan Blackmore that explores consciousness, paranormal claims, and the scientific investigation of extraordinary experiences.
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C.
Eyes of the World
"Eyes of the World" is a jazz-influenced, improvisation-heavy Grateful Dead song that became a live concert staple and fan favorite.
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D.
Light of the Seven
"Light of the Seven" is a haunting, piano-driven orchestral piece by composer Ramin Djawadi, best known for underscoring the explosive climax of the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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E.
The Night Eternal
The Night Eternal is the third and final novel in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s horror trilogy The Strain, concluding the story of a vampiric plague and humanity’s struggle for survival.
- 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: Tides of Light Target entity description: Tides of Light is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, part of his Galactic Center series exploring humanity’s struggle against powerful machine intelligences in a distant future.
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A.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
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B.
In Search of the Light
In Search of the Light is a book by psychologist and skeptic Susan Blackmore that explores consciousness, paranormal claims, and the scientific investigation of extraordinary experiences.
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C.
Eyes of the World
"Eyes of the World" is a jazz-influenced, improvisation-heavy Grateful Dead song that became a live concert staple and fan favorite.
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D.
Light of the Seven
"Light of the Seven" is a haunting, piano-driven orchestral piece by composer Ramin Djawadi, best known for underscoring the explosive climax of the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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E.
The Night Eternal
The Night Eternal is the third and final novel in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s horror trilogy The Strain, concluding the story of a vampiric plague and humanity’s struggle for survival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard science fiction novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Gregory Benford ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
advanced astrophysics concepts
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human survival in a hostile universe ⓘ powerful machine intelligences ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Gregory Benford ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Galactic Center universe ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose narrative ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
book
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print ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
artificial intelligence
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cosmology ⓘ galactic-scale conflict ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Galactic Center series ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySetting | distant future ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
conflict between humans and artificial intelligences
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humanity’s struggle against machine intelligences ⓘ space opera elements ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Galactic Center series ⓘ |
| seriesNumberIn | Galactic Center series ⓘ |
| subgenre | hard SF ⓘ |
| workType | fiction ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Gregory Benford ⓘ |
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: Tides of Light Description of subject: Tides of Light is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, part of his Galactic Center series exploring humanity’s struggle against powerful machine intelligences in a distant future.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.