Star Trek: The Entropy Effect
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Star Trek: The Entropy Effect is a science fiction novel by Vonda N. McIntyre set in the Star Trek universe, known for its time-travel plot centered on Captain Kirk and Spock.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Star Trek: The Entropy Effect canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6953838 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Star Trek: The Entropy Effect Context triple: [Star Trek novels, notableWork, Star Trek: The Entropy Effect]
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A.
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon is a Star Trek novel subseries that follows the adventures and political intrigues of a Klingon Defense Force starship and its crew.
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B.
Star Trek: Stargazer
Star Trek: Stargazer is a series of Star Trek novels that follow Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s early career commanding the starship USS Stargazer before the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Star Trek: Corps of Engineers
Star Trek: Corps of Engineers is a Star Trek novel subseries that follows the adventures of the Starfleet engineering team aboard the USS da Vinci as they tackle complex technical crises and unusual space phenomena.
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D.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact
Star Trek: Typhon Pact is a novel miniseries set in the Star Trek expanded universe that explores the political and military tensions between the United Federation of Planets and a powerful coalition of its adversaries known as the Typhon Pact.
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E.
Star Trek: Vanguard
Star Trek: Vanguard is a Star Trek novel series set during the original series era that follows the crew and intrigues surrounding Starbase 47, also known as Vanguard, on the edge of Federation space.
- 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: Star Trek: The Entropy Effect Target entity description: Star Trek: The Entropy Effect is a science fiction novel by Vonda N. McIntyre set in the Star Trek universe, known for its time-travel plot centered on Captain Kirk and Spock.
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A.
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon is a Star Trek novel subseries that follows the adventures and political intrigues of a Klingon Defense Force starship and its crew.
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B.
Star Trek: Stargazer
Star Trek: Stargazer is a series of Star Trek novels that follow Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s early career commanding the starship USS Stargazer before the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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C.
Star Trek: Corps of Engineers
Star Trek: Corps of Engineers is a Star Trek novel subseries that follows the adventures of the Starfleet engineering team aboard the USS da Vinci as they tackle complex technical crises and unusual space phenomena.
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D.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact
Star Trek: Typhon Pact is a novel miniseries set in the Star Trek expanded universe that explores the political and military tensions between the United Federation of Planets and a powerful coalition of its adversaries known as the Typhon Pact.
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E.
Star Trek: Vanguard
Star Trek: Vanguard is a Star Trek novel series set during the original series era that follows the crew and intrigues surrounding Starbase 47, also known as Vanguard, on the edge of Federation space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Star Trek novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Vonda N. McIntyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter |
Hikaru Sulu
NERFINISHED
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James T. Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ Pavel Chekov NERFINISHED ⓘ Spock NERFINISHED ⓘ Uhura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresStarship | USS Enterprise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
causality
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ethics of time travel ⓘ friendship between Kirk and Spock ⓘ |
| followedBy | Star Trek: The Klingon Gambit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Bob Larkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-671-83307-3 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainProtagonist |
James T. Kirk
NERFINISHED
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Spock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | time-travel plot ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex time-travel structure
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early original Star Trek novel from Pocket Books ⓘ |
| pageCount | 191 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Star Trek: The Motion Picture (novelization) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pocket Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Star Trek: The Original Series novels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Star Trek universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgenre | time travel fiction ⓘ |
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: Star Trek: The Entropy Effect Description of subject: Star Trek: The Entropy Effect is a science fiction novel by Vonda N. McIntyre set in the Star Trek universe, known for its time-travel plot centered on Captain Kirk and Spock.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.