Mount Taprobane
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Mount Taprobane is a fictional, space-elevator-suitable mountain in Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "The Fountains of Paradise."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mount Taprobane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4935997 — 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: Mount Taprobane Context triple: [The Fountains of Paradise, mainLocation, Mount Taprobane]
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A.
Mount Terevaka
Mount Terevaka is the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes forming Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Mount Werong
Mount Werong is a prominent peak in New South Wales, Australia, known as the loftiest summit within the Blue Mountains region.
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C.
Mount Heha
Mount Heha is the tallest mountain in Burundi, located in the Burundi Highlands near the city of Bujumbura.
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D.
Mount Vitsi
Mount Vitsi is a mountain in northern Greece near the border with Albania, known for its strategic role in the Greek Civil War and its forested slopes that now attract hikers and nature enthusiasts.
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E.
Mount Ambelos
Mount Ambelos is the highest and most prominent mountain on the Greek island of Samos, known for its rugged terrain, forests, and scenic hiking routes.
- 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: Mount Taprobane Target entity description: Mount Taprobane is a fictional, space-elevator-suitable mountain in Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "The Fountains of Paradise."
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A.
Mount Terevaka
Mount Terevaka is the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes forming Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Mount Werong
Mount Werong is a prominent peak in New South Wales, Australia, known as the loftiest summit within the Blue Mountains region.
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C.
Mount Heha
Mount Heha is the tallest mountain in Burundi, located in the Burundi Highlands near the city of Bujumbura.
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D.
Mount Vitsi
Mount Vitsi is a mountain in northern Greece near the border with Albania, known for its strategic role in the Greek Civil War and its forested slopes that now attract hikers and nature enthusiasts.
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E.
Mount Ambelos
Mount Ambelos is the highest and most prominent mountain on the Greek island of Samos, known for its rugged terrain, forests, and scenic hiking routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional mountain ⓘ literary work setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Fountains of Paradise ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
geostationary orbit
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orbital tower ⓘ space engineering ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ |
| describedIn | novel ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWorkYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| genreContext | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
equatorial location
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structurally stable foundation ⓘ very high elevation ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCounterpartOf | real Sri Lankan mountain peaks ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional |
Taprobane
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linked to:
island of Taprobane
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| medium | prose literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | site of proposed space elevator ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalWorld | Taprobane in The Fountains of Paradise ⓘ |
| suitableFor | space elevator ⓘ |
| usedToExploreTheme |
human progress
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interaction of technology and religion ⓘ technological ambition ⓘ |
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: Mount Taprobane Description of subject: Mount Taprobane is a fictional, space-elevator-suitable mountain in Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "The Fountains of Paradise."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.