Project Hail Mary
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Project Hail Mary is a science fiction novel by Andy Weir about a lone astronaut on a desperate mission to save Earth from an existential threat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Project Hail Mary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8384701 — 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: Project Hail Mary Context triple: [Andy Weir, notableWork, Project Hail Mary]
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A.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
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B.
The Ribos Operation
The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
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C.
Mission to Mars
"Mission to Mars" is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Brian De Palma that follows a rescue mission to the Red Planet after a disastrous first manned expedition.
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D.
Mission to Mars
Mission to Mars is a science fiction novel by astronaut Buzz Aldrin that explores the technical, political, and human challenges of planning and executing a crewed journey to the Red Planet.
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E.
Die Welträthsel
Die Welträthsel is a late-19th-century philosophical and scientific work by Ernst Haeckel that attempts to explain the fundamental "riddles of the universe" through a monistic, evolutionary worldview.
- 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: Project Hail Mary Target entity description: Project Hail Mary is a science fiction novel by Andy Weir about a lone astronaut on a desperate mission to save Earth from an existential threat.
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A.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
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B.
The Ribos Operation
The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
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C.
Mission to Mars
"Mission to Mars" is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Brian De Palma that follows a rescue mission to the Red Planet after a disastrous first manned expedition.
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D.
Mission to Mars
Mission to Mars is a science fiction novel by astronaut Buzz Aldrin that explores the technical, political, and human challenges of planning and executing a crewed journey to the Red Planet.
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E.
Die Welträthsel
Die Welträthsel is a late-19th-century philosophical and scientific work by Ernst Haeckel that attempts to explain the fundamental "riddles of the universe" through a monistic, evolutionary worldview.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film adaptation
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Andy Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Project Hail Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter | Rocky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies | Eridian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| GoodreadsRatingApprox | 4.5/5 ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Project Hail Mary film adaptation ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination |
Hugo Award for Best Novel (nomination)
NERFINISHED
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Nebula Award for Best Novel (nomination) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
first contact
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isolation in space ⓘ memory loss ⓘ |
| hasReception |
bestseller status
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critical acclaim for storytelling and science ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
existential threat to Earth
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friendship ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ scientific problem-solving ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0593135202 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780593135204 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ryland Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of interspecies cooperation
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detailed scientific accuracy ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Project Hail Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pageCount | 496 ⓘ |
| plotElement |
amnesia of protagonist
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lone astronaut on spacecraft ⓘ mission to save Earth from astrophage ⓘ |
| precededBy | Artemis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2021-05-04 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Ballantine Books
NERFINISHED
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Del Rey Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Tau Ceti system
NERFINISHED
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outer space ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult ⓘ |
| workChronologyPosition | third novel by Andy Weir ⓘ |
| workInSeries | standalone novel ⓘ |
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: Project Hail Mary Description of subject: Project Hail Mary is a science fiction novel by Andy Weir about a lone astronaut on a desperate mission to save Earth from an existential threat.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.