Sailing Bright Eternity
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"Sailing Bright Eternity" is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that concludes his Galactic Center series, depicting humanity's far-future struggle against machine intelligences near the Milky Way's core.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sailing Bright Eternity canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835536 — 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: Sailing Bright Eternity Context triple: [Gregory Benford, notableWork, Sailing Bright Eternity]
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A.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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B.
Like the Sea
"Like the Sea" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys from her album "The Element of Freedom," noted for its serene, metaphor-rich lyrics and gentle, flowing melody.
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C.
Spirit on the Water
"Spirit on the Water" is a reflective, blues-inflected song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its laid-back groove and lyrical blend of romance, humor, and spiritual allusion.
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D.
At Sea
"At Sea" is a section or component of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream," focusing on the protagonist's experiences during World War II naval patrols.
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E.
Into the Blue
Into the Blue is a 2005 action-thriller film about a group of divers who discover a sunken plane full of drugs, starring Paul Walker and Jessica Alba.
- 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: Sailing Bright Eternity Target entity description: "Sailing Bright Eternity" is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that concludes his Galactic Center series, depicting humanity's far-future struggle against machine intelligences near the Milky Way's core.
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A.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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B.
Like the Sea
"Like the Sea" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys from her album "The Element of Freedom," noted for its serene, metaphor-rich lyrics and gentle, flowing melody.
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C.
Spirit on the Water
"Spirit on the Water" is a reflective, blues-inflected song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its laid-back groove and lyrical blend of romance, humor, and spiritual allusion.
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D.
At Sea
"At Sea" is a section or component of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream," focusing on the protagonist's experiences during World War II naval patrols.
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E.
Into the Blue
Into the Blue is a 2005 action-thriller film about a group of divers who discover a sunken plane full of drugs, starring Paul Walker and Jessica Alba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard science fiction novel
ⓘ
science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Gregory Benford ⓘ |
| concludes | Galactic Center series ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts |
far-future humanity
ⓘ
machine intelligences ⓘ |
| features |
advanced machine intelligences
ⓘ
astrophysical phenomena near the Galactic Center ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Gregory Benford ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | hard science fiction ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
conflict between humans and machines
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cosmic-scale warfare ⓘ survival of humanity ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | far future ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Galactic Center series ⓘ |
| seriesOrder | final volume ⓘ |
| setIn | Milky Way's core region ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Milky Way galaxy
ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way
|
| settingRegion |
Galactic Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way center
|
| workType | 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: Sailing Bright Eternity Description of subject: "Sailing Bright Eternity" is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that concludes his Galactic Center series, depicting humanity's far-future struggle against machine intelligences near the Milky Way's core.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.