The Information
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The Information is a darkly comic 1995 novel by British author Martin Amis that satirizes literary ambition, envy, and midlife crisis within the London publishing world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Information canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7674896 — 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 Information Context triple: [Martin Amis, notableWork, The Information]
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A.
The Information
The Information is a 2006 album by American musician Beck that blends alternative rock, electronic, and experimental sounds, notable for its innovative packaging and genre-bending production.
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The Knowledge
The Knowledge is a socially conscious R&B/New Jack Swing track by Janet Jackson from her landmark album "Rhythm Nation 1814," emphasizing the importance of education and awareness.
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C.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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D.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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E.
Read All About It!
"Read All About It!" is a children's book co-authored by former U.S. First Lady Laura Bush that celebrates the joy of reading and the power of books to inspire imagination and learning.
- 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 Information Target entity description: The Information is a darkly comic 1995 novel by British author Martin Amis that satirizes literary ambition, envy, and midlife crisis within the London publishing world.
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A.
The Information
The Information is a 2006 album by American musician Beck that blends alternative rock, electronic, and experimental sounds, notable for its innovative packaging and genre-bending production.
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B.
The Knowledge
The Knowledge is a socially conscious R&B/New Jack Swing track by Janet Jackson from her landmark album "Rhythm Nation 1814," emphasizing the importance of education and awareness.
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C.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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D.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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E.
Read All About It!
"Read All About It!" is a children's book co-authored by former U.S. First Lady Laura Bush that celebrates the joy of reading and the power of books to inspire imagination and learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Martin Amis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | Night Train ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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literary fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Bill Gregory ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | mixed to positive reviews ⓘ |
| hasDeweyDecimalClassification | 823.914 ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780099388610 ⓘ |
| hasLibraryOfCongressClassification | PR6051.M5 I54 1995 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 494 ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
dense allusive language
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ironic prose ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
British society
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male middle age ⓘ novelists ⓘ success and failure ⓘ writers ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Gwyn Barry
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Richard Tull ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic tone
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satire of the London publishing world ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| precededBy | Time's Arrow ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Flamingo
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Harmony Books ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| theme |
envy
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failure ⓘ friendship ⓘ literary ambition ⓘ marriage ⓘ midlife crisis ⓘ the publishing industry ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
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 Information Description of subject: The Information is a darkly comic 1995 novel by British author Martin Amis that satirizes literary ambition, envy, and midlife crisis within the London publishing world.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.