Adam Roberts
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Adam Roberts is a British science fiction author and academic known for his inventive novels, critical studies of the genre, and multiple award-winning works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adam Roberts canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6981613 — 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: Adam Roberts Context triple: [British Science Fiction Association Award, hasNotableRecipient, Adam Roberts]
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A.
Brian Hartnett
Brian Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
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B.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
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C.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a Northern Irish football manager and former player best known for his long-term and highly successful tenure in charge of Crusaders FC.
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D.
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
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E.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
- 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: Adam Roberts Target entity description: Adam Roberts is a British science fiction author and academic known for his inventive novels, critical studies of the genre, and multiple award-winning works.
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A.
Brian Hartnett
Brian Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
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B.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
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C.
Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is a Northern Irish football manager and former player best known for his long-term and highly successful tenure in charge of Crusaders FC.
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D.
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author best known for his space opera novels, particularly the Revelation Space series, which blend hard science with expansive, gothic-tinged futures.
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E.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BSFA Award for Best Novel
NERFINISHED
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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-06-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Aberdeen
NERFINISHED
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer | Royal Holloway, University of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
English literature
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science fiction studies ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
critical studies of science fiction
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literary pastiches ⓘ parodic novels ⓘ |
| influencedBy | classic science fiction authors ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Arthur C. Clarke Award
NERFINISHED
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Hugo Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
By Light Alone
NERFINISHED
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Bête NERFINISHED ⓘ Gradisil NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ New Model Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Salt NERFINISHED ⓘ Science Fiction ⓘ Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ The History of Science Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ The Palgrave History of Science Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing Itself NERFINISHED ⓘ Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellow Blue Tibia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
literary critic
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novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ university professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionHeld | Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature ⓘ |
| website | https://adamroberts.com/ ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
genre theory
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literary criticism ⓘ science fiction history ⓘ |
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: Adam Roberts Description of subject: Adam Roberts is a British science fiction author and academic known for his inventive novels, critical studies of the genre, and multiple award-winning works.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.