Descent
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Descent is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, near-future technology, and questions about alien contact and human belief.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060145 — 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: Descent Context triple: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, Descent]
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A.
Opgang (Descent)
Opgang (Descent) is a Yiddish novel by Dovid Bergelson that portrays the decline of a once-prosperous Jewish family amid the social and cultural upheavals of early 20th-century Eastern Europe.
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Ascent
Ascent is an interactive light-based art installation by American artist Jen Lewin, known for its immersive, participatory experience that responds to viewers’ movement.
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Heavenly Grand Descent
Heavenly Grand Descent is the Shinto mythological event in which the divine grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto descends from the heavens to rule over the earthly realm, marking the origin of Japan’s imperial lineage.
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The Ride
The Ride is a 2017 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado that marked her return after a long hiatus with a more experimental, indie-pop sound.
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E.
Descent into Limbo
Descent into Limbo is a large-scale installation artwork by Anish Kapoor featuring a seemingly bottomless black void that challenges viewers’ perception of depth and space.
- 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: Descent Target entity description: Descent is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, near-future technology, and questions about alien contact and human belief.
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A.
Opgang (Descent)
Opgang (Descent) is a Yiddish novel by Dovid Bergelson that portrays the decline of a once-prosperous Jewish family amid the social and cultural upheavals of early 20th-century Eastern Europe.
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B.
Ascent
Ascent is an interactive light-based art installation by American artist Jen Lewin, known for its immersive, participatory experience that responds to viewers’ movement.
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C.
Heavenly Grand Descent
Heavenly Grand Descent is the Shinto mythological event in which the divine grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto descends from the heavens to rule over the earthly realm, marking the origin of Japan’s imperial lineage.
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D.
The Ride
The Ride is a 2017 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado that marked her return after a long hiatus with a more experimental, indie-pop sound.
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E.
Descent into Limbo
Descent into Limbo is a large-scale installation artwork by Anish Kapoor featuring a seemingly bottomless black void that challenges viewers’ perception of depth and space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Ken MacLeod ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
near-future fiction
ⓘ
political fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Ken MacLeod ⓘ |
| hasForm | novel ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceDomain | science fiction literature ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
near-future realism
ⓘ
political speculation ⓘ technological speculation ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
UFO phenomena
ⓘ
contemporary politics ⓘ extraterrestrial life ⓘ family relationships ⓘ government secrecy ⓘ memory and perception ⓘ political movements ⓘ religion and faith ⓘ social change ⓘ surveillance ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
alien contact
ⓘ
conspiracy ⓘ human belief ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Ken MacLeod bibliography ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| publisherCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| settingTime | near future ⓘ |
| workType | prose fiction ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Ken MacLeod ⓘ |
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: Descent Description of subject: Descent is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, near-future technology, and questions about alien contact and human belief.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Descent