World on the Edge
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World on the Edge is an environmental book by Lester R. Brown that warns of escalating ecological crises and outlines strategies for achieving a sustainable future.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| World on the Edge canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4052506 — 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: World on the Edge Context triple: [Lester R. Brown, notableWork, World on the Edge]
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A.
Life on the Edge
Life on the Edge is a Seattle Aquarium exhibit that showcases the diverse marine life and dynamic ecosystems found along the Pacific Northwest’s rocky shorelines and tidal zones.
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B.
End of the World
"End of the World" is the 1968 debut studio album by Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child, known for its psychedelic sound and melancholic title track.
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C.
Ends of the Earth
"Ends of the Earth" is a cinematic, folk-inspired indie rock song by Lord Huron known for its expansive, wanderlust-driven themes and atmospheric sound.
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D.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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E.
World's Edge
World's Edge is a Microsoft-owned video game development studio best known for overseeing the Age of Empires franchise.
- 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: World on the Edge Target entity description: World on the Edge is an environmental book by Lester R. Brown that warns of escalating ecological crises and outlines strategies for achieving a sustainable future.
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A.
Life on the Edge
Life on the Edge is a Seattle Aquarium exhibit that showcases the diverse marine life and dynamic ecosystems found along the Pacific Northwest’s rocky shorelines and tidal zones.
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B.
End of the World
"End of the World" is the 1968 debut studio album by Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child, known for its psychedelic sound and melancholic title track.
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C.
Ends of the Earth
"Ends of the Earth" is a cinematic, folk-inspired indie rock song by Lord Huron known for its expansive, wanderlust-driven themes and atmospheric sound.
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D.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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E.
World's Edge
World's Edge is a Microsoft-owned video game development studio best known for overseeing the Age of Empires franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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environmental book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
outline a plan to stabilize climate
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promote sustainable resource use ⓘ warn about environmental tipping points ⓘ |
| author | Lester R. Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes | escalating ecological crises ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
global environmental challenges
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policy solutions ⓘ renewable energy adoption ⓘ restructuring the economy for sustainability ⓘ |
| genre |
environmentalism
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sustainability literature ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | global ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
environmentalists
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general public ⓘ policymakers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | World on the Edge self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| proposes | strategies for achieving a sustainable future ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| subject |
climate change
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ecological crisis ⓘ economic restructuring ⓘ energy transition ⓘ environmental policy ⓘ food security ⓘ population growth ⓘ sustainable development ⓘ water scarcity ⓘ |
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: World on the Edge Description of subject: World on the Edge is an environmental book by Lester R. Brown that warns of escalating ecological crises and outlines strategies for achieving a sustainable future.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lester R. Brown