Greg Egan
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Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author renowned for his hard science, mathematically rigorous stories exploring consciousness, identity, and the nature of reality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Greg Egan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7277747 — 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: Greg Egan Context triple: [Campbell Memorial Award, notableRecipient, Greg Egan]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
David Brin
David Brin is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist known for his award-winning novels and influential essays on topics such as the Fermi paradox and the future of civilization.
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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.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
- 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: Greg Egan Target entity description: Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author renowned for his hard science, mathematically rigorous stories exploring consciousness, identity, and the nature of reality.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
David Brin
David Brin is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist known for his award-winning novels and influential essays on topics such as the Fermi paradox and the future of civilization.
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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.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
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person ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hugo Award for Best Novelette
NERFINISHED
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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-08-20 ⓘ |
| familyName | Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Greg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Axiomatic
NERFINISHED
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Crystal Nights NERFINISHED ⓘ Diaspora NERFINISHED ⓘ Distress NERFINISHED ⓘ Incandescence NERFINISHED ⓘ Learning to Be Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Luminous NERFINISHED ⓘ Oceanic NERFINISHED ⓘ Permutation City NERFINISHED ⓘ Quarantine NERFINISHED ⓘ Reasons to Be Cheerful NERFINISHED ⓘ Schild’s Ladder NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang’s Carpets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Greg Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
explorations of consciousness
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explorations of identity ⓘ explorations of the nature of reality ⓘ mathematically rigorous science fiction ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
detailed treatment of artificial intelligence
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mind uploading ⓘ simulated realities ⓘ use of advanced mathematics in fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Axiomatic
NERFINISHED
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Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ Crystal Nights NERFINISHED ⓘ Diaspora NERFINISHED ⓘ Distress NERFINISHED ⓘ Incandescence NERFINISHED ⓘ Learning to Be Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Luminous NERFINISHED ⓘ Oceanic NERFINISHED ⓘ Permutation City NERFINISHED ⓘ Quarantine NERFINISHED ⓘ Reasons to Be Cheerful NERFINISHED ⓘ Schild’s Ladder NERFINISHED ⓘ The Clockwork Rocket NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hundred-Light-Year Diary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Infinite Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Planck Dive NERFINISHED ⓘ The Safe-Deposit Box NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang’s Carpets NERFINISHED ⓘ Zendegi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
science fiction author
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Perth, Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Perth, Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | http://www.gregegan.net/ ⓘ |
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: Greg Egan Description of subject: Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author renowned for his hard science, mathematically rigorous stories exploring consciousness, identity, and the nature of reality.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.