The Machine of the World
E84820
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Machine of the World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T670588 — 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: The Machine of the World Context triple: [Os Lusíadas, containsEpisode, The Machine of the World]
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The World’s Progress
The World’s Progress is a comprehensive reference work compiled by American publisher George Palmer Putnam that surveys major events, discoveries, and developments throughout world history.
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C.
Galatea of the Spheres
Galatea of the Spheres is a 1952 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a fragmented, spherical representation of his wife Gala, reflecting his fascination with nuclear physics and mysticism.
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D.
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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E.
A Hundred Years Hence
"A Hundred Years Hence" is a song featured within the collection known as Harrow Songs.
- 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: The Machine of the World Target entity description: The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The World’s Progress
The World’s Progress is a comprehensive reference work compiled by American publisher George Palmer Putnam that surveys major events, discoveries, and developments throughout world history.
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C.
Galatea of the Spheres
Galatea of the Spheres is a 1952 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a fragmented, spherical representation of his wife Gala, reflecting his fascination with nuclear physics and mysticism.
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D.
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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E.
A Hundred Years Hence
"A Hundred Years Hence" is a song featured within the collection known as Harrow Songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
allegorical vision
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episode in an epic poem ⓘ literary motif ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Os Lusíadas ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Age of Exploration
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surface form:
Age of Discoveries
Portuguese Renaissance literature ⓘ Portuguese maritime exploration ⓘ |
| author | Luís de Camões ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Portugal ⓘ |
| creator | Luís de Camões ⓘ |
| depicts |
cosmic order
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divine knowledge ⓘ secrets of the universe ⓘ the cosmos ⓘ universal harmony ⓘ |
| genre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
allegory of empire and divine sanction
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metaphor for the universe as a machine ⓘ symbol of total knowledge ⓘ vision of cosmological and metaphysical order ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
divine providence
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exploration ⓘ glorification of Portuguese discoveries ⓘ imperial destiny ⓘ knowledge ⓘ maritime expansion ⓘ relationship between humans and the cosmos ⓘ |
| influenced |
Portuguese literary criticism
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later interpretations of Camões ⓘ |
| literaryForm | allegory ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
didactic exposition of cosmic order
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revelation of the structure of the universe ⓘ reward for Portuguese explorers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cosmological scope
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influence on Portuguese cultural identity ⓘ integration of science, mythology, and theology ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| partOf | Os Lusíadas ⓘ |
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: The Machine of the World Description of subject: The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.