The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
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The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science is a comprehensive popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains major scientific concepts and the history of scientific thought for general readers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308328 — 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: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science Context triple: [Isaac Asimov, notableWork, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science]
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A.
The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that champions critical thinking and the scientific method as antidotes to superstition and pseudoscience.
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B.
Cosmos (book)
Cosmos is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the universe, the history of science, and humanity’s place in the cosmos.
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C.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson that offers a concise, accessible overview of key concepts in modern astrophysics and cosmology for general readers.
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D.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for the unification of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single, coherent framework of knowledge.
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E.
The Scientist as Rebel (book)
The Scientist as Rebel is a collection of essays by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson that explores science, religion, ethics, and the role of dissent in scientific progress.
- 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: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science Target entity description: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science is a comprehensive popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains major scientific concepts and the history of scientific thought for general readers.
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A.
The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that champions critical thinking and the scientific method as antidotes to superstition and pseudoscience.
-
B.
Cosmos (book)
Cosmos is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the universe, the history of science, and humanity’s place in the cosmos.
-
C.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson that offers a concise, accessible overview of key concepts in modern astrophysics and cosmology for general readers.
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D.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for the unification of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single, coherent framework of knowledge.
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E.
The Scientist as Rebel (book)
The Scientist as Rebel is a collection of essays by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson that explores science, religion, ethics, and the role of dissent in scientific progress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-fiction book
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popular science book ⓘ revised edition ⓘ |
| aim | to explain science to laypeople ⓘ |
| author |
Isaac Asimov
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Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| covers | history of scientific thought ⓘ |
| explains | major scientific concepts ⓘ |
| field | science communication ⓘ |
| genre |
popular science
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science education ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Asimov's New Guide to Science
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surface form:
The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
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| hasPart |
sections on biological sciences
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sections on earth and space sciences ⓘ sections on physical sciences ⓘ |
| influenced | later popular science writers ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breadth of scientific coverage
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historical perspective on science ⓘ |
| topic |
astronomy
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biology ⓘ chemistry ⓘ earth science ⓘ history of science ⓘ physics ⓘ science ⓘ scientific method ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
accessible
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expository ⓘ |
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: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science Description of subject: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science is a comprehensive popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains major scientific concepts and the history of scientific thought for general readers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
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basedOn
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The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science