A Modern Utopia
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A Modern Utopia is a 1905 speculative novel by H. G. Wells that imagines a parallel Earth governed by a rational, scientifically organized world state.
All labels observed (1)
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| A Modern Utopia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364586 — 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: A Modern Utopia Context triple: [H. G. Wells bibliography, includesWork, A Modern Utopia]
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A.
Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia is a 1946 musical comedy film in the popular "Road to..." series, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as scheming entertainers caught up in Alaskan gold-rush adventures.
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The Great Utopia
The Great Utopia is a chapter in Friedrich Hayek’s "The Road to Serfdom" that critiques collectivist visions of a perfect society and warns of their tendency to lead toward authoritarianism.
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C.
American Utopia (album)
American Utopia is a 2018 studio album by David Byrne that blends art rock, pop, and global influences and later inspired a critically acclaimed Broadway show and concert film.
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D.
History and Utopia
History and Utopia is a philosophical essay collection by Emil Cioran that explores the illusions of historical progress and the human longing for ideal societies.
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E.
The Good Society
The Good Society is a sociological work by Robert N. Bellah that explores how modern democratic institutions and civic life can be reoriented toward shared moral values and the common good.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Modern Utopia Target entity description: A Modern Utopia is a 1905 speculative novel by H. G. Wells that imagines a parallel Earth governed by a rational, scientifically organized world state.
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A.
Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia is a 1946 musical comedy film in the popular "Road to..." series, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as scheming entertainers caught up in Alaskan gold-rush adventures.
-
B.
The Great Utopia
The Great Utopia is a chapter in Friedrich Hayek’s "The Road to Serfdom" that critiques collectivist visions of a perfect society and warns of their tendency to lead toward authoritarianism.
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C.
American Utopia (album)
American Utopia is a 2018 studio album by David Byrne that blends art rock, pop, and global influences and later inspired a critically acclaimed Broadway show and concert film.
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D.
History and Utopia
History and Utopia is a philosophical essay collection by Emil Cioran that explores the illusions of historical progress and the human longing for ideal societies.
-
E.
The Good Society
The Good Society is a sociological work by Robert N. Bellah that explores how modern democratic institutions and civic life can be reoriented toward shared moral values and the common good.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | H. G. Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
rational social organization
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scientific governance ⓘ social reform ⓘ utopianism ⓘ world state ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresConcept |
cosmopolitanism
ⓘ
meritocracy ⓘ planned society ⓘ technocracy ⓘ world government ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| followedBy | In the Days of the Comet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
ⓘ
speculative fiction ⓘ utopian fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | full-length novel ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
20th-century utopian literature
ⓘ
discourse on world government ⓘ |
| hasPart | dialogues on social organization ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalInfluence |
liberalism
ⓘ
positivism ⓘ socialism ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
economic organization
ⓘ
education reform ⓘ individual freedom and social order ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ social engineering ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| isPartOf | H. G. Wells bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Edwardian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of fiction and political theory
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systematic depiction of a world state ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| precededBy | Mankind in the Making NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1905 ⓘ |
| publisher | Chapman & Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | parallel Earth ⓘ |
| structure | frame narrative ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfWork | early 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Modern Utopia Description of subject: A Modern Utopia is a 1905 speculative novel by H. G. Wells that imagines a parallel Earth governed by a rational, scientifically organized world state.
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