Cycle of Fire
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Cycle of Fire is a hard science fiction novel by Hal Clement that follows a human castaway on a harsh alien world with extreme seasonal changes, emphasizing scientific realism and survival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cycle of Fire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9548672 — 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: Cycle of Fire Context triple: [Hal Clement, notableWork, Cycle of Fire]
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A.
The Consuming Fire
The Consuming Fire is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi, the second book in his Interdependency series, continuing a space-opera saga about political intrigue and the collapse of an interstellar empire.
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B.
Voice of Fire
Voice of Fire is a large abstract painting by American artist Barnett Newman, known for its simple vertical bands of color and the controversy surrounding its purchase by the National Gallery of Canada.
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C.
Black Fire
Black Fire is a landmark jazz album by pianist and composer Andrew Hill, celebrated for its adventurous post-bop compositions and innovative harmonic language.
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D.
Black Fire
Black Fire is a landmark 1968 anthology that showcases a wide range of Black Arts Movement poetry, fiction, and essays by African American writers.
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E.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire 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: Cycle of Fire Target entity description: Cycle of Fire is a hard science fiction novel by Hal Clement that follows a human castaway on a harsh alien world with extreme seasonal changes, emphasizing scientific realism and survival.
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A.
The Consuming Fire
The Consuming Fire is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi, the second book in his Interdependency series, continuing a space-opera saga about political intrigue and the collapse of an interstellar empire.
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B.
Voice of Fire
Voice of Fire is a large abstract painting by American artist Barnett Newman, known for its simple vertical bands of color and the controversy surrounding its purchase by the National Gallery of Canada.
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C.
Black Fire
Black Fire is a landmark 1968 anthology that showcases a wide range of Black Arts Movement poetry, fiction, and essays by African American writers.
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D.
Black Fire
Black Fire is a landmark jazz album by pianist and composer Andrew Hill, celebrated for its adventurous post-bop compositions and innovative harmonic language.
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E.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Hal Clement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
alien ecology
ⓘ
extreme climate cycles ⓘ human–alien cooperation ⓘ |
| emphasizes | scientific realism ⓘ |
| features |
extreme seasonal changes
ⓘ
human castaway ⓘ |
| focusesOn | survival ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adaptation to alien environments
ⓘ
human survival ⓘ interaction with alien species ⓘ scientific problem solving ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century science fiction ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed world-building
ⓘ
rigorous application of science ⓘ |
| partOf | Hal Clement bibliography ⓘ |
| setting | harsh alien world ⓘ |
| style |
analytical
ⓘ
scientifically detailed ⓘ |
| subgenre | planetary adventure ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
adult readers
ⓘ
science fiction enthusiasts ⓘ |
| workOf | Hal Clement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cycle of Fire Description of subject: Cycle of Fire is a hard science fiction novel by Hal Clement that follows a human castaway on a harsh alien world with extreme seasonal changes, emphasizing scientific realism and survival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.