Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence is a speculative non-fiction book by James Lovelock that explores a future epoch dominated by superintelligent, self-evolving technologies and their relationship with humanity and the Earth.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence" | 1 |
| Novacene | 1 |
| Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T750345 — 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: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence Context triple: [James Lovelock, notableWork, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence]
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A.
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
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B.
Homesteading the Noosphere
Homesteading the Noosphere is an influential essay by Eric S. Raymond that analyzes the culture, motivations, and property norms of the open-source software community.
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C.
The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
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D.
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
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E.
Berserker hypothesis
The Berserker hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox suggesting that self-replicating killer probes or hostile civilizations systematically destroy emerging intelligent life in the galaxy, explaining our apparent cosmic silence.
- 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: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence Target entity description: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence is a speculative non-fiction book by James Lovelock that explores a future epoch dominated by superintelligent, self-evolving technologies and their relationship with humanity and the Earth.
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A.
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
-
B.
Homesteading the Noosphere
Homesteading the Noosphere is an influential essay by Eric S. Raymond that analyzes the culture, motivations, and property norms of the open-source software community.
-
C.
The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
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D.
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
-
E.
Berserker hypothesis
The Berserker hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox suggesting that self-replicating killer probes or hostile civilizations systematically destroy emerging intelligent life in the galaxy, explaining our apparent cosmic silence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ speculative non-fiction book ⓘ |
| argues |
future hyperintelligent systems will depend on the stability of the biosphere
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superintelligent life will help maintain a habitable Earth ⓘ |
| author | James Lovelock ⓘ |
| authorBirthYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | unknown ⓘ |
| describes |
co-evolution of humans and AI
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self-evolving technologies ⓘ superintelligent machines ⓘ |
| followsConcept |
Anthropocene epoch
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linked to:
Anthropocene
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| genre |
futurism
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non-fiction ⓘ science writing ⓘ |
| hasForm |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | optimistic about coexistence with AI ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readership
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readers interested in science and technology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Gaia hypothesis
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artificial intelligence ⓘ climate change ⓘ future of humanity ⓘ hyperintelligence ⓘ relationship between humans and machines ⓘ technological singularity ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 160 ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| proposesConcept | Novacene epoch ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Allen Lane
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Penguin Books ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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The Revenge of Gaia ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | future ⓘ |
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: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence Description of subject: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence is a speculative non-fiction book by James Lovelock that explores a future epoch dominated by superintelligent, self-evolving technologies and their relationship with humanity and the Earth.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
linked to: Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence