Little Brother
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Little Brother is a young adult cyberpunk novel by Cory Doctorow that follows a teenage hacker fighting government surveillance in a near-future San Francisco.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Brother canonical | 7 |
| Little Brother series | 4 |
| Little Brother (2008 novel) | 1 |
| Little Brother universe | 1 |
| novel Little Brother (2008) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T230523 — 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: Little Brother Context triple: [Cory Doctorow, notableWork, Little Brother]
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A.
The Brothers
"The Brothers" is a 17th-century stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, reflecting the manners and intrigues of Caroline-era London society.
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B.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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C.
Liberty Boys
Liberty Boys was an alternative name for the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization of American colonists who opposed British policies and played a key role in fomenting the American Revolution.
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D.
Devils Playground
Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
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E.
Stumptown
Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
- 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: Little Brother Target entity description: Little Brother is a young adult cyberpunk novel by Cory Doctorow that follows a teenage hacker fighting government surveillance in a near-future San Francisco.
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A.
The Brothers
"The Brothers" is a 17th-century stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, reflecting the manners and intrigues of Caroline-era London society.
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B.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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C.
Liberty Boys
Liberty Boys was an alternative name for the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization of American colonists who opposed British policies and played a key role in fomenting the American Revolution.
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D.
Devils Playground
Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
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E.
Stumptown
Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cyberpunk novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ young adult novel ⓘ |
| author | Cory Doctorow ⓘ |
| availableAs | free ebook ⓘ |
| awarded | Prometheus Award ⓘ |
| awardYear |
2009 Prometheus Award
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linked to:
Prometheus Award
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| centralTheme |
civil liberties
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government surveillance ⓘ hacking ⓘ privacy ⓘ resistance to authoritarianism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Richard H. Tuttle ⓘ |
| educationalUse |
taught in high school curricula
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used in university courses on technology and society ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | teenage hacker ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk
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science fiction ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Homeland ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-0-7653-1985-2 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license |
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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linked to:
Creative Commons license
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| mainCharacter | Marcus Yallow ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Nebula Award for Best Novel ⓘ
linked to:
Nebula Award
|
| notableFor |
depiction of DHS surveillance after a terrorist attack
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use of real-world cryptography and security concepts ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Tor Books ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 384 ⓘ |
| protagonistAlias | w1n5t0n ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisherImprint | Tor Teen ⓘ |
| sequelPublicationDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| setInLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | near future ⓘ |
| subject |
Department of Homeland Security
ⓘ
counterterrorism ⓘ digital rights ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
| titleAlludesTo | Big Brother ⓘ |
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: Little Brother Description of subject: Little Brother is a young adult cyberpunk novel by Cory Doctorow that follows a teenage hacker fighting government surveillance in a near-future San Francisco.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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