Perpetual Motion
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Perpetual Motion is a novel by Canadian writer Graeme Gibson that blends experimental narrative with themes of history, myth, and the Canadian experience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Perpetual Motion canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3865832 — 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: Perpetual Motion Context triple: [Graeme Gibson, notableWork, Perpetual Motion]
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A.
Paradoxes of motion
Paradoxes of motion are a set of philosophical arguments, attributed to Zeno of Elea, that challenge the coherence of motion and plurality by revealing apparent contradictions in their logical description.
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B.
Maxwell's demon thought experiment
Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
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C.
Dyson series
The Dyson series is a perturbative expansion in quantum field theory that expresses time-ordered exponentials and scattering amplitudes as an infinite series of integrals, each term corresponding to a Feynman diagram.
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D.
Rocket Power
Rocket Power is a 2023 studio album by American rapper Quavo that reflects on loss, legacy, and his evolution as a solo artist.
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E.
Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass is a large-scale outdoor sculpture by artist Michael Heizer featuring a massive suspended boulder installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- 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: Perpetual Motion Target entity description: Perpetual Motion is a novel by Canadian writer Graeme Gibson that blends experimental narrative with themes of history, myth, and the Canadian experience.
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A.
Paradoxes of motion
Paradoxes of motion are a set of philosophical arguments, attributed to Zeno of Elea, that challenge the coherence of motion and plurality by revealing apparent contradictions in their logical description.
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B.
Maxwell's demon thought experiment
Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
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C.
Dyson series
The Dyson series is a perturbative expansion in quantum field theory that expresses time-ordered exponentials and scattering amplitudes as an infinite series of integrals, each term corresponding to a Feynman diagram.
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D.
Rocket Power
Rocket Power is a 2023 studio album by American rapper Quavo that reflects on loss, legacy, and his evolution as a solo artist.
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E.
Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass is a large-scale outdoor sculpture by artist Michael Heizer featuring a massive suspended boulder installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Graeme Gibson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| genre |
Canadian literature
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experimental fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Graeme Gibson ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Perpetual Motion self-link ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
Canadian experience
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history ⓘ myth ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | experimental narrative ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork | Perpetual Motion self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Perpetual Motion Description of subject: Perpetual Motion is a novel by Canadian writer Graeme Gibson that blends experimental narrative with themes of history, myth, and the Canadian experience.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Graeme Gibson