Raft
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Raft is a hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter set in a universe with extremely high gravity, exploring how human society adapts to radically altered physical laws.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raft canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805613 — 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: Raft Context triple: [Stephen Baxter, notableWork, Raft]
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A.
The Raft
The Raft is a video art installation by Bill Viola that depicts a diverse group of people suddenly overwhelmed by a powerful deluge of water, exploring themes of human vulnerability, crisis, and collective endurance.
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B.
Swarm
Swarm is a giant wasp-like Skylander character from the Skylanders: Giants video game, known for his flying abilities and stinger-based combat.
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C.
Province 5
Province 5 is one of the administrative provinces of Nepal, located in the western part of the country and known for its diverse geography and cultural heritage.
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D.
Topside
Topside is a section of Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines that served as the main defensive and administrative area of the former U.S. military installation.
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E.
Riot
Riot is the first name of Riot Rose Mayers, the daughter of singer Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Raft Target entity description: Raft is a hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter set in a universe with extremely high gravity, exploring how human society adapts to radically altered physical laws.
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A.
The Raft
The Raft is a video art installation by Bill Viola that depicts a diverse group of people suddenly overwhelmed by a powerful deluge of water, exploring themes of human vulnerability, crisis, and collective endurance.
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B.
Swarm
Swarm is a giant wasp-like Skylander character from the Skylanders: Giants video game, known for his flying abilities and stinger-based combat.
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C.
Province 5
Province 5 is one of the administrative provinces of Nepal, located in the western part of the country and known for its diverse geography and cultural heritage.
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D.
Topside
Topside is a section of Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines that served as the main defensive and administrative area of the former U.S. military installation.
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E.
Riot
Riot is the first name of Riot Rose Mayers, the daughter of singer Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard science fiction novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Baxter ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
adaptation of human society to radically altered physical laws
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consequences of different physical constants ⓘ scientific exploration and discovery ⓘ social stratification under resource scarcity ⓘ survival in extreme environments ⓘ |
| containsElement |
decaying orbit around a collapsed object
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floating forest habitat ⓘ generation starship wreck survivors ⓘ mining of dense matter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Peter Elson ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Timelike Infinity ⓘ |
| genre |
hard science fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
1991 British novels
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British science fiction novels ⓘ Novels by Stephen Baxter ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-246-13761-5 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 256 ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
social science fiction
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space opera ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century science fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Rees ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a universe with much stronger gravitational constant
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early example of Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee mythos ⓘ rigorous use of physics in worldbuilding ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | Raft ⓘ |
| partOf | Xeelee Sequence ⓘ |
| precededBy | Vacuum Diagrams ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | miner ⓘ |
| publisher |
Grafton Books
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HarperCollins ⓘ |
| series | Xeelee Sequence ⓘ |
| setting |
nebula of dense matter around a collapsed star remnant
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universe with extremely high gravity ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: Raft Description of subject: Raft is a hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter set in a universe with extremely high gravity, exploring how human society adapts to radically altered physical laws.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.