All Flesh is Grass
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"All Flesh is Grass" is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak that explores humanity's encounter with a mysterious, benevolent alien presence that encloses a small American town within an invisible barrier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| All Flesh is Grass canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9245520 — 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: All Flesh is Grass Context triple: [Clifford D. Simak, notableWork, All Flesh is Grass]
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A.
Mouthful of Grass
"Mouthful of Grass" is an instrumental blues-rock track by the English rock band Free, known as the B-side to their hit single "All Right Now."
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B.
The Grass Is No Green
"The Grass Is No Green" is a song by the German progressive rock band Nektar from their 1972 concept album "A Tab in the Ocean."
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C.
Pastures of Plenty
Pastures of Plenty is a folk song by Woody Guthrie that reflects the struggles and resilience of migrant workers during the Dust Bowl era.
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D.
Shadows on the Grass
"Shadows on the Grass" is a memoir by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) that revisits her years in colonial Kenya through reflective, nostalgic essays that complement her earlier work "Out of Africa."
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E.
The Fat of the Land
"The Fat of the Land" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse set around the Drones Club and its eccentric members.
- 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: All Flesh is Grass Target entity description: "All Flesh is Grass" is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak that explores humanity's encounter with a mysterious, benevolent alien presence that encloses a small American town within an invisible barrier.
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A.
Mouthful of Grass
"Mouthful of Grass" is an instrumental blues-rock track by the English rock band Free, known as the B-side to their hit single "All Right Now."
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B.
The Grass Is No Green
"The Grass Is No Green" is a song by the German progressive rock band Nektar from their 1972 concept album "A Tab in the Ocean."
-
C.
Pastures of Plenty
Pastures of Plenty is a folk song by Woody Guthrie that reflects the struggles and resilience of migrant workers during the Dust Bowl era.
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D.
Shadows on the Grass
"Shadows on the Grass" is a memoir by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) that revisits her years in colonial Kenya through reflective, nostalgic essays that complement her earlier work "Out of Africa."
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E.
The Fat of the Land
"The Fat of the Land" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse set around the Drones Club and its eccentric members.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Clifford D. Simak ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
communication between species
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first contact with aliens ⓘ humanity’s place in the universe ⓘ isolation of a community ⓘ non‑violent alien encounter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| exploresConcept |
cooperation with extraterrestrials
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limits of human understanding ⓘ moral responsibility of humanity ⓘ xenophobia ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverseFeature | force‑field‑like dome around town ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasTitle | All Flesh is Grass ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th‑century American science fiction ⓘ |
| plotElement |
appearance of a mysterious alien presence
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town is enclosed in an invisible barrier ⓘ |
| portraysAliensAs | benevolent ⓘ |
| setting | small American town ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Clifford D. Simak ⓘ |
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: All Flesh is Grass Description of subject: "All Flesh is Grass" is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak that explores humanity's encounter with a mysterious, benevolent alien presence that encloses a small American town within an invisible barrier.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.