Deadline
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"Deadline" is a classic science fiction short story, best known for its influential early depiction of nuclear weapons and its publication in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deadline canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2704763 — 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: Deadline Context triple: [Astounding Science Fiction, notableStoryPublished, Deadline]
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A.
The Time is at Hand
"The Time is at Hand" is a volume in Charles Taze Russell’s *Studies in the Scriptures* series that focuses on biblical chronology and end-times prophecy.
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B.
Last Day
"Last Day" is a song featured on the album "Life After Death" by The Notorious B.I.G.
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C.
Doomsday
"Doomsday" is a highly acclaimed 2006 Doctor Who television episode that concludes the battle between the Cybermen and the Daleks while marking the emotional farewell between the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler.
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D.
Doomsday
Doomsday is a monstrous, nearly indestructible Kryptonian creature known in DC Comics for killing Superman and serving as one of his most powerful foes.
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E.
No Tomorrow
"No Tomorrow" is a pop-punk song by the American rock band Busted, released as a single from their third studio album "Night Driver."
- 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: Deadline Target entity description: "Deadline" is a classic science fiction short story, best known for its influential early depiction of nuclear weapons and its publication in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.
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A.
The Time is at Hand
"The Time is at Hand" is a volume in Charles Taze Russell’s *Studies in the Scriptures* series that focuses on biblical chronology and end-times prophecy.
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B.
Last Day
"Last Day" is a song featured on the album "Life After Death" by The Notorious B.I.G.
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C.
Doomsday
"Doomsday" is a highly acclaimed 2006 Doctor Who television episode that concludes the battle between the Cybermen and the Daleks while marking the emotional farewell between the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler.
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D.
Doomsday
Doomsday is a monstrous, nearly indestructible Kryptonian creature known in DC Comics for killing Superman and serving as one of his most powerful foes.
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E.
No Tomorrow
"No Tomorrow" is a pop-punk song by the American rock band Busted, released as a single from their third studio album "Night Driver."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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science fiction short story ⓘ |
| appearedAlongside | other stories in Astounding Science Fiction March 1944 issue ⓘ |
| associatedWithHistoricalEvent |
Manhattan Project
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World War II ⓘ |
| author | Cleve Cartmill ⓘ |
| causedReactionFrom | United States government censors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editorAtFirstPublication |
John W. Campbell Jr.
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surface form:
John W. Campbell
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| firstPublishedIn | Astounding Science Fiction ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | novelette-length short story ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
military officers overseeing weapons project
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scientist designing a superweapon ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | noted for prescient treatment of atomic weapons ⓘ |
| hasFictionalWar | interplanetary conflict ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
cited in discussions of science fiction and the atomic bomb
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considered a classic of Golden Age science fiction ⓘ |
| influenced | later nuclear war fiction ⓘ |
| influencedBy | contemporary nuclear physics research ⓘ |
| inUniverseTechnology |
plutonium-based fission bomb
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uranium-based fission bomb ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | magazine ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed description of an atomic bomb
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early depiction of nuclear weapons ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 1944 ⓘ |
| originalPublicationMonth | March 1944 ⓘ |
| period | Golden Age of Science Fiction ⓘ |
| plotElement |
development of a superweapon that can end a war
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race against time to complete a bomb design ⓘ |
| publicationFormat | short story in periodical ⓘ |
| publicationType | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| publisher | Astounding Science Fiction ⓘ |
| reasonForInvestigation | accurate technical details about atomic bomb design ⓘ |
| setting | fictional planet engaged in war ⓘ |
| subjectOf | FBI investigation due to its bomb description ⓘ |
| theme |
espionage and secrecy
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nuclear warfare ⓘ scientific ethics ⓘ weapons of mass destruction ⓘ |
| usesScientificConcept |
chain reaction
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critical mass ⓘ nuclear fission ⓘ |
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: Deadline Description of subject: "Deadline" is a classic science fiction short story, best known for its influential early depiction of nuclear weapons and its publication in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.