The Humans
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The Humans is a comic science fiction novel by Matt Haig that follows an alien sent to Earth who must impersonate a human mathematician and grapple with the complexities of human life and emotion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Humans canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861636 — 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 Humans Context triple: [Canongate Books, publishesWork, The Humans]
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A.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a New Zealand-American psychedelic rock band led by Ruban Nielson, known for its lo-fi production, genre-blending sound, and critically acclaimed albums like "II" and "Multi-Love."
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B.
Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts is an American indie rock band known for its sharp, punk-influenced sound and intellectually charged, socially observant lyrics.
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C.
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dismemberment Plan is an American indie rock band from Washington, D.C., known for its inventive, genre-blending sound and influential late-1990s and early-2000s albums.
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D.
The Wombats
The Wombats are an English indie rock band known for their energetic, hook-driven songs and witty, often self-deprecating lyrics.
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E.
Okkervil River
Okkervil River is an American indie rock band known for its literate songwriting, narrative-driven albums, and emotionally rich performances.
- 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 Humans Target entity description: The Humans is a comic science fiction novel by Matt Haig that follows an alien sent to Earth who must impersonate a human mathematician and grapple with the complexities of human life and emotion.
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A.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a New Zealand-American psychedelic rock band led by Ruban Nielson, known for its lo-fi production, genre-blending sound, and critically acclaimed albums like "II" and "Multi-Love."
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B.
Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts is an American indie rock band known for its sharp, punk-influenced sound and intellectually charged, socially observant lyrics.
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C.
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dismemberment Plan is an American indie rock band from Washington, D.C., known for its inventive, genre-blending sound and influential late-1990s and early-2000s albums.
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D.
The Wombats
The Wombats are an English indie rock band known for their energetic, hook-driven songs and witty, often self-deprecating lyrics.
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E.
Okkervil River
Okkervil River is an American indie rock band known for its literate songwriting, narrative-driven albums, and emotionally rich performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic science fiction novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Matt Haig ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
alienation
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family ⓘ humanity ⓘ identity ⓘ love ⓘ meaning of life ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
complexities of human life
ⓘ
human emotion ⓘ |
| genre |
comic fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9781782113062 ⓘ |
| hasTone |
humorous
ⓘ
philosophical ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Andrew Martin
ⓘ
alien narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | exploration of what it means to be human ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Canongate Books ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | impersonates a human mathematician ⓘ |
| protagonistSpecies | alien ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| setting |
Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
CAMBRIDGE
Earth ⓘ |
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 Humans Description of subject: The Humans is a comic science fiction novel by Matt Haig that follows an alien sent to Earth who must impersonate a human mathematician and grapple with the complexities of human life and emotion.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.