The Silence
E69667
The Silence is a short, late-career novel by Don DeLillo that explores human disconnection and technological collapse in a near-future setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Silence canonical | 3 |
| The Silence (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549366 — 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 Silence Context triple: [Don DeLillo, notableWork, The Silence]
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A.
Great Silence
The Great Silence refers to the puzzling absence of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vastness and apparent habitability of the universe.
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B.
La voix
"La voix" is an operatic pop song performed by Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman as Sweden’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
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E.
Les Solitudes
Les Solitudes is a reflective poetic work by French writer and first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Sully Prudhomme, exploring themes of isolation and inner life.
- 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 Silence Target entity description: The Silence is a short, late-career novel by Don DeLillo that explores human disconnection and technological collapse in a near-future setting.
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A.
Great Silence
The Great Silence refers to the puzzling absence of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vastness and apparent habitability of the universe.
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B.
La voix
"La voix" is an operatic pop song performed by Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman as Sweden’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
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E.
Les Solitudes
Les Solitudes is a reflective poetic work by French writer and first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Sully Prudhomme, exploring themes of isolation and inner life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
collapse of digital communication systems
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global technological shutdown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| explores |
dependence on digital devices
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existential anxiety in the digital age ⓘ fragility of modern infrastructure ⓘ relationship between humans and technology ⓘ |
| followsWork | Zero K ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ novella ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Diane Lucas
ⓘ
Jim Kripps ⓘ Martin Dekker ⓘ Max Stenner ⓘ Tessa Berens ⓘ |
| hasForm | short novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
apocalypse
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communication breakdown ⓘ crisis of language ⓘ digital technology ⓘ human disconnection ⓘ isolation ⓘ media saturation ⓘ surveillance culture ⓘ technological collapse ⓘ |
| motif |
air travel
ⓘ
cryptic dialogue ⓘ screens ⓘ sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 2020-10-20 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 128 ⓘ |
| partOf | Don DeLillo bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Scribner
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Scribner's Sons
|
| settingPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| settingTime | near future ⓘ |
| tone |
apocalyptic
ⓘ
bleak ⓘ meditative ⓘ |
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 Silence Description of subject: The Silence is a short, late-career novel by Don DeLillo that explores human disconnection and technological collapse in a near-future setting.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Silence (2019 film)
subject linked to:
The Silence (2019 film)
linked to: The Silence