Machines Like Me
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Machines Like Me is a speculative novel by Ian McEwan that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and human relationships in an alternate 1980s Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Machines Like Me canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5008132 — 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: Machines Like Me Context triple: [Ian McEwan, notableWork, Machines Like Me]
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
The Children’s Machine
The Children’s Machine is a seminal book by Seymour Papert that explores how computers can transform education by empowering children to learn through exploration, creativity, and constructionist principles.
- 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: Machines Like Me Target entity description: Machines Like Me is a speculative novel by Ian McEwan that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and human relationships in an alternate 1980s Britain.
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
The Children’s Machine
The Children’s Machine is a seminal book by Seymour Papert that explores how computers can transform education by empowering children to learn through exploration, creativity, and constructionist principles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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speculative fiction work ⓘ |
| author | Ian McEwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
artificial intelligence
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consciousness ⓘ ethics ⓘ free will ⓘ human relationships ⓘ morality ⓘ responsibility for created beings ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsTechnology | lifelike androids ⓘ |
| exploresEthicalIssue |
creation of sentient machines
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justice and retribution ⓘ ownership of conscious entities ⓘ |
| exploresPhilosophicalIssue |
limits of human empathy
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nature of personhood ⓘ |
| exploresTopic |
legal and moral status of artificial beings
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romantic relationships between humans and androids ⓘ truth and deception ⓘ war and political conflict ⓘ |
| featuresArtificialBeing | Adam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternate history fiction
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science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternateHistoryElement |
advanced computing in 1980s Britain
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different outcome of the Falklands War ⓘ surviving Alan Turing ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Adam
NERFINISHED
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Charlie Friend NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9781787331679 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | 320 ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre | works by Ian McEwan ⓘ |
| protagonist | Charlie Friend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| settingDescription | alternate 1980s Britain ⓘ |
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: Machines Like Me Description of subject: Machines Like Me is a speculative novel by Ian McEwan that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and human relationships in an alternate 1980s Britain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.