Shards of Honor
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Shards of Honor is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold that introduces the Vorkosigan Saga through the story of starship captain Cordelia Naismith and her complex relationship with enemy officer Aral Vorkosigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shards of Honor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910286 — 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: Shards of Honor Context triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, notableWork, Shards of Honor]
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A.
Lost Honor
Lost Honor is a memoir by former White House Counsel John Dean reflecting on his role in the Watergate scandal and its aftermath.
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B.
The Vanishing Legion
The Vanishing Legion is a 1931 American movie serial, blending Western and mystery elements, known for its masked riders, oil-field intrigue, and early sound-era action.
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C.
The Crimson Guard
The Crimson Guard is the passionate student cheering section that supports the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team at their home games.
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D.
Siła i Honor
Siła i Honor is the official motto of Poland’s elite special forces unit GROM, emphasizing strength and honor as core values.
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E.
The Tranquility Wars
The Tranquility Wars is a science fiction novel by Gentry Lee that explores complex political and social conflicts in a future human civilization.
- 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: Shards of Honor Target entity description: Shards of Honor is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold that introduces the Vorkosigan Saga through the story of starship captain Cordelia Naismith and her complex relationship with enemy officer Aral Vorkosigan.
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A.
Lost Honor
Lost Honor is a memoir by former White House Counsel John Dean reflecting on his role in the Watergate scandal and its aftermath.
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B.
The Vanishing Legion
The Vanishing Legion is a 1931 American movie serial, blending Western and mystery elements, known for its masked riders, oil-field intrigue, and early sound-era action.
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C.
The Crimson Guard
The Crimson Guard is the passionate student cheering section that supports the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team at their home games.
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D.
Siła i Honor
Siła i Honor is the official motto of Poland’s elite special forces unit GROM, emphasizing strength and honor as core values.
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E.
The Tranquility Wars
The Tranquility Wars is a science fiction novel by Gentry Lee that explores complex political and social conflicts in a future human civilization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| alsoPublishedInOmnibus | Cordelia's Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistTurnedAlly | Aral Vorkosigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Lois McMaster Bujold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyNote | early story in the Vorkosigan Saga internal timeline ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Barclay Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Aral Vorkosigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cordelia Naismith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Barrayar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsInInternalChronology | Falling Free NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
ⓘ
space opera ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cross-cultural romance
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duty ⓘ honor ⓘ interstellar war ⓘ |
| introducesSeries | Vorkosigan Saga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Aral Vorkosigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cordelia Naismith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| omnibusWith | Barrayar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationForm | book ⓘ |
| partOf | Vorkosigan Saga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAffiliation | Betan Expeditionary Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Baen Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Vorkosigan Saga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Barrayar universe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
space ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Shards of Honor Description of subject: Shards of Honor is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold that introduces the Vorkosigan Saga through the story of starship captain Cordelia Naismith and her complex relationship with enemy officer Aral Vorkosigan.
Referenced by (1)
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