The New Story
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The New Story is Thomas Berry’s influential essay proposing a transformative cosmological narrative that integrates scientific understanding with spiritual and ecological awareness to guide humanity’s relationship with the Earth.
All labels observed (1)
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| The New Story canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6237647 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The New Story Context triple: [Thomas Berry, knownFor, The New Story]
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A.
The Only Story
The Only Story is a 2018 novel by British author Julian Barnes that explores a young man's life-defining love affair with an older, married woman and its lasting emotional consequences.
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Stories That Matter
Stories That Matter is the guiding motto of the Peabody Awards, emphasizing their focus on honoring impactful and socially significant storytelling in media.
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C.
Inside Story
Inside Story is a 1986 studio album by American singer and actress Grace Jones that blends pop, R&B, and experimental sounds, noted for its innovative production and introspective themes.
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D.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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E.
The Incredible True Story
The Incredible True Story is Logic’s second studio album, a sci‑fi concept record that blends intricate storytelling with introspective lyricism over cinematic, futuristic production.
- 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 New Story Target entity description: The New Story is Thomas Berry’s influential essay proposing a transformative cosmological narrative that integrates scientific understanding with spiritual and ecological awareness to guide humanity’s relationship with the Earth.
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A.
The Only Story
The Only Story is a 2018 novel by British author Julian Barnes that explores a young man's life-defining love affair with an older, married woman and its lasting emotional consequences.
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B.
Stories That Matter
Stories That Matter is the guiding motto of the Peabody Awards, emphasizing their focus on honoring impactful and socially significant storytelling in media.
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C.
Inside Story
Inside Story is a 1986 studio album by American singer and actress Grace Jones that blends pop, R&B, and experimental sounds, noted for its innovative production and introspective themes.
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D.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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E.
The Incredible True Story
The Incredible True Story is Logic’s second studio album, a sci‑fi concept record that blends intricate storytelling with introspective lyricism over cinematic, futuristic production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental humanities text
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essay ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ theological work ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
guide humanity’s relationship with the Earth
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inspire ecological responsibility ⓘ provide an integrating narrative for science and religion ⓘ reorient education around the universe story ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Earth community
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Great Work ⓘ deep ecology ⓘ universe story ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Berry ⓘ |
| critiques |
exploitative attitudes toward nature
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reductionist scientific materialism when divorced from meaning ⓘ the modern industrial worldview ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
integration of scientific knowledge into spiritual worldviews
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interdependence of all life ⓘ need for new cultural myths ⓘ reverence for the Earth ⓘ sacrality of the universe ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cosmology
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cultural transformation ⓘ need for a new guiding story for human civilization ⓘ religious imagination ⓘ transition from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary eco-theologians
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discourse on integral ecology in Catholic and Christian contexts ⓘ religious environmental movements ⓘ |
| influencedField |
eco-spirituality
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ecotheology ⓘ environmental ethics ⓘ integral ecology ⓘ religion and ecology ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
cosmology as foundation for ethics and institutions
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humans as a mode of Earth self-awareness ⓘ story as primary shaper of human culture ⓘ universe as a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cosmological narrative
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ecological awareness ⓘ integration of science and spirituality ⓘ planetary ethics ⓘ relationship between humanity and Earth ⓘ |
| proposes |
a new ecological orientation for human societies
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a transformative cosmological narrative ⓘ integration of scientific cosmology with spiritual meaning ⓘ |
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 New Story Description of subject: The New Story is Thomas Berry’s influential essay proposing a transformative cosmological narrative that integrates scientific understanding with spiritual and ecological awareness to guide humanity’s relationship with the Earth.
Referenced by (1)
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