The Reluctant Orchid
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"The Reluctant Orchid" is a humorous science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke involving a timid man, a dangerous orchid, and an ill-fated murder plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Reluctant Orchid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805530 — 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 Reluctant Orchid Context triple: [Tales from the White Hart, containsStory, The Reluctant Orchid]
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A.
The Orchid House
The Orchid House is a bestselling historical fiction novel by Lucinda Riley that intertwines past and present through a family saga set between an English estate and exotic locations abroad.
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B.
Desert Orchid
Desert Orchid was a legendary British steeplechaser famed for his versatility, front-running style, and multiple major race victories in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Orchids in the Moonlight
"Orchids in the Moonlight" is a popular song from the early 1930s, best known for its romantic, Latin-tinged melody and association with classic Hollywood musical cinema.
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D.
Hothouse Flower
Hothouse Flower is a bestselling historical fiction novel by Lucinda Riley that intertwines past and present through a family mystery centered on a grand English estate.
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E.
Brother Orchid
Brother Orchid is a 1940 American crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a gangster who hides in a monastery and undergoes an unexpected moral transformation.
- 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 Reluctant Orchid Target entity description: "The Reluctant Orchid" is a humorous science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke involving a timid man, a dangerous orchid, and an ill-fated murder plot.
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A.
The Orchid House
The Orchid House is a bestselling historical fiction novel by Lucinda Riley that intertwines past and present through a family saga set between an English estate and exotic locations abroad.
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B.
Desert Orchid
Desert Orchid was a legendary British steeplechaser famed for his versatility, front-running style, and multiple major race victories in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Orchids in the Moonlight
"Orchids in the Moonlight" is a popular song from the early 1930s, best known for its romantic, Latin-tinged melody and association with classic Hollywood musical cinema.
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D.
Hothouse Flower
Hothouse Flower is a bestselling historical fiction novel by Lucinda Riley that intertwines past and present through a family mystery centered on a grand English estate.
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E.
Brother Orchid
Brother Orchid is a 1940 American crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a gangster who hides in a monastery and undergoes an unexpected moral transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous science fiction story
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science fiction short story ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| features | dangerous orchid ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Earth-based setting ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasElement |
domestic setting
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failed crime ⓘ man-eating plant ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
comic
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light-hearted ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Timid man ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arthur C. Clarke short fiction bibliography
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linked to:
Arthur C. Clarke bibliography
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| plotElement | ill-fated murder plot ⓘ |
| theme |
dark comedy
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murder gone wrong ⓘ timidity ⓘ unintended consequences ⓘ |
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 Reluctant Orchid Description of subject: "The Reluctant Orchid" is a humorous science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke involving a timid man, a dangerous orchid, and an ill-fated murder plot.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.