From the Earth to the Moon
E478119
From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 science fiction novel by Jules Verne that imagines a post–American Civil War gun club launching a manned projectile to the Moon, pioneering realistic space travel storytelling.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| From the Earth to the Moon canonical | 2 |
| From the Earth to the Moon (1958 film) | 1 |
| Jules Verne’s Around the Moon | 1 |
| Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4915622 — 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: From the Earth to the Moon Context triple: [Jules Verne, notableWork, From the Earth to the Moon]
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A.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO miniseries that dramatizes the history of the Apollo space program and the United States’ efforts to land astronauts on the Moon.
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B.
Venture to the Moon
"Venture to the Moon" is a science fiction work by Arthur C. Clarke that follows a pioneering mission and early human adventures in lunar exploration.
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C.
To the Moon
"To the Moon" is a song featured on the album "All I Want Is You."
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D.
A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
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E.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
- 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: From the Earth to the Moon Target entity description: From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 science fiction novel by Jules Verne that imagines a post–American Civil War gun club launching a manned projectile to the Moon, pioneering realistic space travel storytelling.
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A.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO miniseries that dramatizes the history of the Apollo space program and the United States’ efforts to land astronauts on the Moon.
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B.
Venture to the Moon
"Venture to the Moon" is a science fiction work by Arthur C. Clarke that follows a pioneering mission and early human adventures in lunar exploration.
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C.
To the Moon
"To the Moon" is a song featured on the album "All I Want Is You."
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D.
A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a tourist vessel trapped beneath the Moon’s dust surface and the ensuing rescue efforts.
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E.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ work of literature ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film
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television production ⓘ |
| anticipatedConcept |
launch from Florida for a lunar mission
ⓘ
space capsule ⓘ weightlessness in space ⓘ |
| approximateWordCount | about 70,000 words ⓘ |
| author | Jules Verne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
exploration of the Moon
ⓘ
space travel ⓘ technological ambition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstEnglishPublicationYear | 1867 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Around the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | From the Earth to the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalDevice | Columbiad cannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalLocation | Tampa Town, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Around the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
early rocketry enthusiasts
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later space travel fiction ⓘ |
| launchSiteInStory | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | scientific romance ⓘ |
| mainOrganization | Baltimore Gun Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Captain Nicholl
NERFINISHED
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Impey Barbicane NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Ardan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | De la Terre à la Lune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pioneeringAspect |
detailed technical description of a lunar mission
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early realistic depiction of space travel ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A gun club designs and launches a giant cannon to send a projectile to the Moon. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1865 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scientificMethodUse | features calculations of escape velocity and trajectory ⓘ |
| series | Voyages extraordinaires NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post–American Civil War era ⓘ |
| subject |
Moon
NERFINISHED
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astronomy ⓘ ballistics ⓘ |
| timeToMoonInStory | about 97 hours ⓘ |
| workInPublicDomain | true ⓘ |
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: From the Earth to the Moon Description of subject: From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 science fiction novel by Jules Verne that imagines a post–American Civil War gun club launching a manned projectile to the Moon, pioneering realistic space travel storytelling.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
From the Earth to the Moon (1958 film)
this entity surface form:
Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon
this entity surface form:
Jules Verne’s Around the Moon