The Murderbot Diaries
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The Murderbot Diaries is a popular science fiction series by Martha Wells that follows a self-aware security android navigating corporate-dominated space while grappling with autonomy, identity, and its reluctant attachment to humans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Murderbot Diaries canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5614011 — 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 Murderbot Diaries Context triple: [Hugo Award for Best Series, notableWinner, The Murderbot Diaries]
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A.
The Robots of Dawn
The Robots of Dawn is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that continues the adventures of detective Elijah Baley as he investigates a high-stakes robotic "murder" on the Spacer world of Aurora, further developing Asimov’s robot universe and the Three Laws of Robotics.
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B.
Machines Like Me
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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C.
The Zero Theorem
The Zero Theorem is a 2013 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, featuring Christoph Waltz as a reclusive computer genius tasked with solving a mysterious mathematical formula that could reveal the meaning—or meaninglessness—of existence.
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D.
The Mind Robber
The Mind Robber is a surreal and experimental 1968 Doctor Who serial in which the Second Doctor and his companions become trapped in a bizarre, fictional universe where imagination shapes reality.
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E.
The Rest of the Robots
The Rest of the Robots is a science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that gathers many of his classic robot tales exploring the implications of the Three Laws of Robotics.
- 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 Murderbot Diaries Target entity description: The Murderbot Diaries is a popular science fiction series by Martha Wells that follows a self-aware security android navigating corporate-dominated space while grappling with autonomy, identity, and its reluctant attachment to humans.
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A.
The Robots of Dawn
The Robots of Dawn is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that continues the adventures of detective Elijah Baley as he investigates a high-stakes robotic "murder" on the Spacer world of Aurora, further developing Asimov’s robot universe and the Three Laws of Robotics.
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B.
Machines Like Me
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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C.
The Zero Theorem
The Zero Theorem is a 2013 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, featuring Christoph Waltz as a reclusive computer genius tasked with solving a mysterious mathematical formula that could reveal the meaning—or meaninglessness—of existence.
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D.
The Mind Robber
The Mind Robber is a surreal and experimental 1968 Doctor Who serial in which the Second Doctor and his companions become trapped in a bizarre, fictional universe where imagination shapes reality.
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E.
The Rest of the Robots
The Rest of the Robots is a science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that gathers many of his classic robot tales exploring the implications of the Three Laws of Robotics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book series
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novel ⓘ novella ⓘ science fiction series ⓘ |
| author | Martha Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award |
Hugo Award for Best Novella
NERFINISHED
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Locus Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebula Award for Best Novella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstWork | All Systems Red NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistTrait |
media-obsessed
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reluctantly heroic ⓘ socially anxious ⓘ |
| hasWork |
All Systems Red
NERFINISHED
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Artificial Condition NERFINISHED ⓘ Exit Strategy NERFINISHED ⓘ Fugitive Telemetry NERFINISHED ⓘ Network Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ Rogue Protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Murderbot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterType | self-aware security android ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Murderbot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | blending humor with serious themes about AI and personhood ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Murderbot Diaries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistSpecies | SecUnit ⓘ |
| publisher | Tor.com NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | corporate-dominated space ⓘ |
| subgenre |
character-driven science fiction
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space opera ⓘ |
| theme |
artificial intelligence ethics
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autonomy ⓘ corporate power ⓘ free will ⓘ identity ⓘ reluctant attachment to humans ⓘ trauma and recovery ⓘ |
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 Murderbot Diaries Description of subject: The Murderbot Diaries is a popular science fiction series by Martha Wells that follows a self-aware security android navigating corporate-dominated space while grappling with autonomy, identity, and its reluctant attachment to humans.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.