Field Notes from a Catastrophe
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines the science, evidence, and early impacts of human-driven climate change around the world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Field Notes from a Catastrophe canonical | 1 |
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307952 — 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: Field Notes from a Catastrophe Context triple: [The Sixth Extinction, relatedWork, Field Notes from a Catastrophe]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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D.
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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E.
The War You Don't See
The War You Don't See is a documentary film by journalist John Pilger that critically examines how the media shapes public perception of war and conflict.
- 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: Field Notes from a Catastrophe Target entity description: Field Notes from a Catastrophe is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines the science, evidence, and early impacts of human-driven climate change around the world.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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D.
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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E.
The War You Don't See
The War You Don't See is a documentary film by journalist John Pilger that critically examines how the media shapes public perception of war and conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
climate change book
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Elizabeth Kolbert ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The New Yorker
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surface form:
New Yorker articles
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
early impacts of climate change
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melting glaciers ⓘ policy responses to climate change ⓘ rising sea levels ⓘ scientific evidence for climate change ⓘ species extinction risk ⓘ thawing permafrost ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
fossil fuel use
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greenhouse gas emissions ⓘ human-driven climate change ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental literature
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasEdition | updated edition ⓘ |
| hasFormat | book ⓘ |
| hasSequel | The Sixth Extinction ⓘ |
| hasSubjectArea |
environmental science
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journalism ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| influencedBy | contemporary climate research ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
anthropogenic climate change
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climate change ⓘ climate science ⓘ environmental policy ⓘ global warming ⓘ impacts of climate change ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
accessible explanation of climate science
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early popularization of climate change impacts ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Bloomsbury Publishing ⓘ
surface form:
Bloomsbury USA
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| setting | global ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
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policy makers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
field reporting
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reportage ⓘ scientific interviews ⓘ |
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: Field Notes from a Catastrophe Description of subject: Field Notes from a Catastrophe is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines the science, evidence, and early impacts of human-driven climate change around the world.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change