The Corporation Wars: Dissidence

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science fiction novel

The Corporation Wars: Dissidence is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends space opera, AI consciousness, and political intrigue in a future of corporate-controlled interstellar conflict.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
The Corporation Wars: Insurgence	4
The Corporation Wars	2
The Corporation Wars trilogy	1
The Corporation Wars: Dissidence canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7060146 — 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 Corporation Wars: Dissidence
Context triple: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, The Corporation Wars: Dissidence]

A. The Corps
The Corps is the student military-style leadership organization at Texas A&M University known for its traditions, discipline, and role in campus life.
B. The Ribos Operation
The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
C. The Freedon Nadd Uprising
The Freedon Nadd Uprising is a Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi comic miniseries that chronicles a dark-side rebellion on the planet Onderon sparked by the lingering influence of the ancient Sith Lord Freedon Nadd.
D. War of the Cities
The War of the Cities was a series of reciprocal missile and air attacks on major urban centers during the Iran–Iraq War, marked by extensive civilian casualties and psychological warfare.
E. War in the Dark
War in the Dark is a supernatural espionage novel by Nick Setchfield that blends Cold War spy thriller elements with occult horror.
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 Corporation Wars: Dissidence
Target entity description: The Corporation Wars: Dissidence is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends space opera, AI consciousness, and political intrigue in a future of corporate-controlled interstellar conflict.

A. The Corps
The Corps is the student military-style leadership organization at Texas A&M University known for its traditions, discipline, and role in campus life.
B. The Ribos Operation
The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
C. The Freedon Nadd Uprising
The Freedon Nadd Uprising is a Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi comic miniseries that chronicles a dark-side rebellion on the planet Onderon sparked by the lingering influence of the ancient Sith Lord Freedon Nadd.
D. War of the Cities
The War of the Cities was a series of reciprocal missile and air attacks on major urban centers during the Iran–Iraq War, marked by extensive civilian casualties and psychological warfare.
E. War in the Dark
War in the Dark is a supernatural espionage novel by Nick Setchfield that blends Cold War spy thriller elements with occult horror.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	science fiction novel ⓘ
author	Ken MacLeod ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
explores	conflicts between human and machine intelligences ⓘ corporate governance of space colonies ⓘ legal and moral status of AIs ⓘ
feature	corporate-controlled military forces ⓘ resurrected combatants in virtual training ⓘ sentient robots ⓘ
followedBy	The Corporation Wars: Insurgence ⓘ linked to: The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
genre	political science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ
hasCategory	2016 novels ⓘ British science fiction novels ⓘ Novels by Ken MacLeod ⓘ
hasCoverArtist	Richie Hull ⓘ
hasISBN	9780316293975 ⓘ
hasMainCharacter	Carlos the Terrorist ⓘ
hasPageCount	approximately 320 pages ⓘ
hasSequel	The Corporation Wars: Emergence ⓘ The Corporation Wars: Insurgence ⓘ linked to: The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
language	English ⓘ
marketedAs	space opera ⓘ
mediaType	ebook ⓘ print ⓘ
narrativePerspective	multiple viewpoints ⓘ
partOf	The Corporation Wars trilogy ⓘ linked to: The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
positionInSeries	first novel in The Corporation Wars series ⓘ
publicationYear	2016 ⓘ
publisher	Orbit Books ⓘ
publisherImprint	Orbit ⓘ
series	The Corporation Wars ⓘ linked to: The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
setting	far future ⓘ interstellar space ⓘ
targetAudience	adult readers ⓘ
theme	AI consciousness ⓘ artificial intelligence ⓘ corporate power ⓘ interstellar conflict ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ posthumanism ⓘ robot uprisings ⓘ simulated environments ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ
timePeriodOfPublication	2010s ⓘ

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