The Sky Road
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The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sky Road canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060136 — 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 Sky Road Context triple: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, The Sky Road]
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A.
Refuge of the Roads
"Refuge of the Roads" is a reflective, jazz-inflected folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and intricate guitar work.
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B.
Sunken Road
Sunken Road, later known as Bloody Lane, was a crucial defensive position and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the American Civil War’s Battle of Antietam.
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C.
Sunrise Road
Sunrise Road is a scenic mountain roadway in Mount Rainier National Park that climbs to the Sunrise area, one of the park’s highest and most popular viewpoints.
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D.
The Highway
"The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
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E.
Desolation Road
Desolation Road is a science fiction novel by Ian McDonald that follows the intertwined lives of settlers in a strange, isolated town on a terraformed Mars.
- 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 Sky Road Target entity description: The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
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A.
Refuge of the Roads
"Refuge of the Roads" is a reflective, jazz-inflected folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and intricate guitar work.
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B.
Sunken Road
Sunken Road, later known as Bloody Lane, was a crucial defensive position and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the American Civil War’s Battle of Antietam.
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C.
Sunrise Road
Sunrise Road is a scenic mountain roadway in Mount Rainier National Park that climbs to the Sunrise area, one of the park’s highest and most popular viewpoints.
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D.
The Highway
"The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
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E.
Desolation Road
Desolation Road is a science fiction novel by Ian McDonald that follows the intertwined lives of settlers in a strange, isolated town on a terraformed Mars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Ken MacLeod ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | unidentified (Orbit Books edition) ⓘ |
| follows |
The Cassini Division
ⓘ
linked to:
Cassini Division
|
| genre |
alternate history fiction
ⓘ
political science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Clovis colha Gree
ⓘ
Myrmidon ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 320 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alternate history
ⓘ
environmental catastrophe ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ revolution ⓘ space colonization ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | dual timeline ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Fall Revolution ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| publisher | Orbit Books ⓘ |
| setting |
future Scotland
ⓘ
spacefaring future ⓘ |
| universe | Fall Revolution universe ⓘ |
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 Sky Road Description of subject: The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.