Passer-by
E477049
"Passer-by" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, featured in his science fiction collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores themes of chance encounters and the vastness of space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Passer-by canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4880107 — 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: Passer-by Context triple: [The Other Side of the Sky, containsWork, Passer-by]
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A.
The Avenue
The Avenue is an upmarket shopping and dining destination located within the Spinningfields district of Manchester, England.
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B.
The Crowds
The Crowds is an English title for the 39th chapter of the Qur’an, which emphasizes sincere worship of God alone and contrasts the fates of believers and disbelievers.
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C.
Make Way
Make Way is a 1961 folk music album by The Kingston Trio that showcases the group’s signature harmonies and helped solidify their popularity during the American folk revival.
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D.
This Way Please
"This Way Please" is a 1937 American musical comedy film featuring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, known for its lighthearted romance, songs, and early screen appearances by Betty Grable and Mary Livingstone.
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E.
Leaving the City
"Leaving the City" is a song by the American indie rock band Divers.
- 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: Passer-by Target entity description: "Passer-by" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, featured in his science fiction collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores themes of chance encounters and the vastness of space.
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A.
The Avenue
The Avenue is an upmarket shopping and dining destination located within the Spinningfields district of Manchester, England.
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B.
The Crowds
The Crowds is an English title for the 39th chapter of the Qur’an, which emphasizes sincere worship of God alone and contrasts the fates of believers and disbelievers.
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C.
Make Way
Make Way is a 1961 folk music album by The Kingston Trio that showcases the group’s signature harmonies and helped solidify their popularity during the American folk revival.
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D.
This Way Please
"This Way Please" is a 1937 American musical comedy film featuring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, known for its lighthearted romance, songs, and early screen appearances by Betty Grable and Mary Livingstone.
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E.
Leaving the City
"Leaving the City" is a song by the American indie rock band Divers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | outer space ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | short fiction ⓘ |
| hasGenreCharacteristic | speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
ghostly visitation
ⓘ
unexpected meeting ⓘ war and memory ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
afterlife encounter
ⓘ
astronauts ⓘ space travel ⓘ war casualties ⓘ |
| hasTone |
contemplative
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | The Other Side of the Sky ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Golden Age science fiction
ⓘ
linked to:
Golden Age of Science Fiction
|
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
chance encounters
ⓘ
human insignificance in the cosmos ⓘ isolation ⓘ transience of human life ⓘ vastness of space ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | The Other Side of the Sky ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine short story ⓘ |
| setting |
outer space
ⓘ
spacecraft in orbit ⓘ |
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: Passer-by Description of subject: "Passer-by" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, featured in his science fiction collection *The Other Side of the Sky*, that explores themes of chance encounters and the vastness of space.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.