The Revolution Business
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The Revolution Business is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, part of his "Merchant Princes" series that blends parallel-universe politics, espionage, and economic intrigue.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Revolution Business canonical | 6 |
| The Revolution Trade | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060098 — 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 Revolution Business Context triple: [Charles Stross, notableWork, The Revolution Business]
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A.
The Revolution
The Revolution is the American funk rock band best known as Prince’s backing group during his peak 1980s period, including the Purple Rain era.
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B.
Revolution Money
Revolution Money was a financial services company that offered low-fee payment and credit card solutions as an alternative to traditional card networks.
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C.
Revolution
Revolution is a critically acclaimed country music album by American singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert, noted for its raw storytelling and artistic maturity.
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D.
Revolution
Revolution is a stand-up comedy film and album by comedian Margaret Cho, featuring her politically charged and socially conscious humor.
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E.
Revolution
Revolution was the internal codename for Nintendo's Wii console during its development, reflecting the company's aim to radically change how people play video games through motion controls and accessible design.
- 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 Revolution Business Target entity description: The Revolution Business is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, part of his "Merchant Princes" series that blends parallel-universe politics, espionage, and economic intrigue.
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A.
The Revolution
The Revolution is the American funk rock band best known as Prince’s backing group during his peak 1980s period, including the Purple Rain era.
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B.
Revolution Money
Revolution Money was a financial services company that offered low-fee payment and credit card solutions as an alternative to traditional card networks.
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C.
Revolution
Revolution is a stand-up comedy film and album by comedian Margaret Cho, featuring her politically charged and socially conscious humor.
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D.
Revolution
Revolution is a critically acclaimed country music album by American singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert, noted for its raw storytelling and artistic maturity.
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E.
Revolution
Revolution is a steel shuttle roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in England, known for featuring a single vertical loop traversed both forwards and backwards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Stross ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
clan-based aristocracy
ⓘ
cross-world trade ⓘ state surveillance ⓘ technological disparity between worlds ⓘ terrorism and counterterrorism ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Miriam Beckstein ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
economic intrigue
ⓘ
espionage ⓘ interdimensional travel ⓘ parallel universes ⓘ political power struggle ⓘ revolution ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Trade of Queens ⓘ |
| genre |
alternate history
ⓘ
political thriller ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| isFictionalUniverseElementOf |
The Merchant Princes universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Merchant Princes
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| language | English ⓘ |
| mainProtagonist | Miriam Beckstein ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | novel ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
The Merchant Princes
ⓘ
linked to:
Merchant Princes
|
| precededBy | The Merchants' War ⓘ |
| publisher | Tor Books ⓘ |
| setting |
Gruinmarkt (alternate world)
ⓘ
contemporary United States (alternate timeline) ⓘ parallel Earths ⓘ |
| workInSeriesNumbering | fifth novel in The Merchant Princes series ⓘ |
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 Revolution Business Description of subject: The Revolution Business is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, part of his "Merchant Princes" series that blends parallel-universe politics, espionage, and economic intrigue.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.