A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future
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A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future is an 1894 science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV that imagines space travel and life on other planets in the far-off year 2000.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future canonical | 1 |
| A Romance of the Future | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8744262 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future Context triple: [A Journey in Other Worlds, title, A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future]
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A.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
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B.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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C.
Triplanetary
Triplanetary is a classic science fiction novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that serves as a foundational prequel to his Lensman series, depicting interstellar conflict and the origins of the Lensmen.
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D.
Orphans of the Sky
Orphans of the Sky is a classic science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a generation ship whose inhabitants have forgotten their origins and believe their vessel is the entire universe.
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E.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a boy sold into slavery who becomes embroiled in interstellar politics and the fight against galactic slave trading.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future Target entity description: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future is an 1894 science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV that imagines space travel and life on other planets in the far-off year 2000.
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A.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
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B.
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that follows two Englishmen who travel to the Moon and encounter an underground civilization of insect-like beings called Selenites.
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C.
Triplanetary
Triplanetary is a classic science fiction novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that serves as a foundational prequel to his Lensman series, depicting interstellar conflict and the origins of the Lensmen.
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D.
Orphans of the Sky
Orphans of the Sky is a classic science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a generation ship whose inhabitants have forgotten their origins and believe their vessel is the entire universe.
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E.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a boy sold into slavery who becomes embroiled in interstellar politics and the fight against galactic slave trading.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | John Jacob Astor IV ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
future technology
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interplanetary travel ⓘ life on other planets ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
human expansion into space
ⓘ
scientific and technological optimism ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
ⓘ
speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNotability |
Titanic victim
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member of the Astor family ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
businessman
ⓘ
inventor ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTimeFrame | near future (relative to 1894) ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | A Romance of the Future ⓘ |
| hasTitle | A Journey in Other Worlds ⓘ |
| imagines |
advanced transportation technologies
ⓘ
colonization of other worlds ⓘ future society in the year 2000 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreMovement | early space fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 19th century American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
exploration of the solar system
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technological progress ⓘ utopian and dystopian futures ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1894 ⓘ |
| settingTime | year 2000 ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | John Jacob Astor IV ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future Description of subject: A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future is an 1894 science fiction novel by John Jacob Astor IV that imagines space travel and life on other planets in the far-off year 2000.
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