Cone of Silence
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The Cone of Silence is a comically ineffective high-tech privacy device from the spy parody series "Get Smart," often used by Agent Maxwell Smart with absurdly disastrous results.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cone of Silence canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14228447 — 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: Cone of Silence Context triple: [Maxwell Smart, usesGadget, Cone of Silence]
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A.
Table of Silence
Table of Silence is a modernist stone sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, created as part of a memorial ensemble in Târgu Jiu, Romania, to honor those who died in World War I.
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B.
Valley of Silence
The Valley of Silence is a high glacial valley on Mount Everest, renowned as the Western Cwm on the standard South Col climbing route.
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C.
The Roaring Silence
The Roaring Silence is a 1976 rock album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, best known for featuring their hit cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light."
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D.
Admiring Silence
Admiring Silence is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah that explores themes of exile, identity, and cultural dislocation through the experiences of a Zanzibari man living in England.
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E.
Great Silence
The Great Silence refers to the puzzling absence of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vastness and apparent habitability of the universe.
- 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: Cone of Silence Target entity description: The Cone of Silence is a comically ineffective high-tech privacy device from the spy parody series "Get Smart," often used by Agent Maxwell Smart with absurdly disastrous results.
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A.
Table of Silence
Table of Silence is a modernist stone sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, created as part of a memorial ensemble in Târgu Jiu, Romania, to honor those who died in World War I.
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B.
Valley of Silence
The Valley of Silence is a high glacial valley on Mount Everest, renowned as the Western Cwm on the standard South Col climbing route.
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C.
The Roaring Silence
The Roaring Silence is a 1976 rock album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, best known for featuring their hit cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light."
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D.
Admiring Silence
Admiring Silence is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah that explores themes of exile, identity, and cultural dislocation through the experiences of a Zanzibari man living in England.
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E.
Great Silence
The Great Silence refers to the puzzling absence of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vastness and apparent habitability of the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.