Greg Bear
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Greg Bear was an American science fiction author renowned for his hard science-based novels exploring themes such as cosmology, artificial intelligence, and the future evolution of humanity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greg Bear canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9722556 — 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 Bear Context triple: [Poul Anderson, influenced, Greg Bear]
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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.
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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D.
Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts is a British science fiction author and academic known for his inventive novels, critical studies of the genre, and multiple award-winning works.
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E.
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.
- 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 Bear Target entity description: Greg Bear was an American science fiction author renowned for his hard science-based novels exploring themes such as cosmology, artificial intelligence, and the future evolution of humanity.
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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.
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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D.
Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts is a British science fiction author and academic known for his inventive novels, critical studies of the genre, and multiple award-winning works.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Endeavour Award
NERFINISHED
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Hugo Award NERFINISHED ⓘ John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebula Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Gregory Dale Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from stroke surgery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-08-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-11-19 ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.gregbear.com/ ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Poul Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | hard science fiction ⓘ |
| name | Greg Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
exploration of artificial intelligence in fiction
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exploration of cosmology in fiction ⓘ exploration of human evolution in fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anvil of Stars
NERFINISHED
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Blood Music NERFINISHED ⓘ City at the End of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Darwin’s Children NERFINISHED ⓘ Darwin’s Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ Eon NERFINISHED ⓘ Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Hull Zero Three NERFINISHED ⓘ Legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Moving Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen of Angels NERFINISHED ⓘ Slant NERFINISHED ⓘ The Forge of God NERFINISHED ⓘ The Way series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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science fiction writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ⓘ |
| relative |
Karen Anderson
NERFINISHED
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Poul Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Astrid Anderson Bear 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: Greg Bear Description of subject: Greg Bear was an American science fiction author renowned for his hard science-based novels exploring themes such as cosmology, artificial intelligence, and the future evolution of humanity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.