Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson is an acclaimed American science fiction author best known for his politically and environmentally focused works such as the Mars trilogy and numerous near-future climate novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kim Stanley Robinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7277749 — 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: Kim Stanley Robinson Context triple: [Campbell Memorial Award, notableRecipient, Kim Stanley Robinson]
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A.
Greg Egan
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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B.
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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C.
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist best known for his hard science fiction novels such as "Timescape" and his contributions to the Galactic Center series.
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D.
Julian May
Julian May was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her sprawling Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu series.
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E.
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.
- 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: Kim Stanley Robinson Target entity description: Kim Stanley Robinson is an acclaimed American science fiction author best known for his politically and environmentally focused works such as the Mars trilogy and numerous near-future climate novels.
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A.
Greg Egan
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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B.
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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C.
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist best known for his hard science fiction novels such as "Timescape" and his contributions to the Galactic Center series.
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D.
Julian May
Julian May was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her sprawling Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu series.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in English literature ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
NERFINISHED
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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ Locus Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebula Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ World Fantasy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-03-23 ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTopic | Philip K. Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Riverside
NERFINISHED
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University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
climate fiction
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science fiction ⓘ utopian fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Kim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | two sons ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
New Space Opera
NERFINISHED
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ecocriticism ⓘ |
| name | Kim Stanley Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
environmentally focused science fiction
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politically engaged science fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
2312
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Antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ Aurora NERFINISHED ⓘ Blue Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ Mars trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ New York 2140 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Edge NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gold Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ministry for the Future NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ The Years of Rice and Salt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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science fiction writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Waukegan, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Davis, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lisa Nowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingPeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Kim Stanley Robinson Description of subject: Kim Stanley Robinson is an acclaimed American science fiction author best known for his politically and environmentally focused works such as the Mars trilogy and numerous near-future climate novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.