Rocannon's World
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Rocannon's World is a science fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that introduces her Hainish universe through the story of an ethnologist exploring a perilous alien planet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rocannon's World canonical | 5 |
| The Adventures of Rocannon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3799276 — 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: Rocannon's World Context triple: [Ursula K. Le Guin, notableWork, Rocannon's World]
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A.
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction mystery novel by Isaac Asimov featuring detective Elijah Baley investigating a murder on the sparsely populated, robot-dominated planet Solaria.
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B.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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C.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
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D.
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
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E.
Prelude to Foundation
Prelude to Foundation is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores the early life of Hari Seldon and the origins of his revolutionary science of psychohistory within the Foundation universe.
- 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: Rocannon's World Target entity description: Rocannon's World is a science fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that introduces her Hainish universe through the story of an ethnologist exploring a perilous alien planet.
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A.
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction mystery novel by Isaac Asimov featuring detective Elijah Baley investigating a murder on the sparsely populated, robot-dominated planet Solaria.
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B.
Ringworld
Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
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C.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
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D.
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
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E.
Prelude to Foundation
Prelude to Foundation is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores the early life of Hari Seldon and the origins of his revolutionary science of psychohistory within the Foundation universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fantasy novel ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Ursula K. Le Guin ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dowry of the Angyar ⓘ |
| containsElement |
medieval-level societies
ⓘ
multiple intelligent species ⓘ space travel ⓘ telepathy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coverArtist | Jack Gaughan ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| followsWork | Dowry of the Angyar ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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science fantasy ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle |
The Adventures of Rocannon
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linked to:
Rocannon's World
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| hasForm | standalone novel ⓘ |
| hasMagicLikeElement | psychic powers ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Gaverel Rocannon ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | 160 ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Angyar
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Clayfolk ⓘ Fiia ⓘ Gdemiar ⓘ Winged folk ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | planetary romance ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
faster-than-light communication
ⓘ
starships ⓘ |
| includedInCollection |
Worlds of Exile and Illusion
ⓘ
linked to:
Planet of Exile
|
| introducesConcept | ansible ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | first published novel by Ursula K. Le Guin ⓘ |
| originalMedium | paperback book ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Hainish Cycle ⓘ |
| precedesInSeries | Planet of Exile ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | ethnologist ⓘ |
| publisher | Ace Books ⓘ |
| setting | unnamed alien planet ⓘ |
| settingUniverse | League of All Worlds ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
colonialism
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cultural contact ⓘ identity ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| universe |
Hainish universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Hainish Cycle
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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: Rocannon's World Description of subject: Rocannon's World is a science fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that introduces her Hainish universe through the story of an ethnologist exploring a perilous alien planet.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rocannon's World