The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure co-designed by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky, known for its humorous, punishingly difficult text-based puzzles adapted from the original radio and book series.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T119923 — 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)
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Target entity: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) Context triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, hasAdaptation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedic science fiction series following the misadventures of an unwitting human and his alien friend as they travel through an absurd and satirical universe.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show) is a theatrical adaptation of Douglas Adams' cult science-fiction comedy, bringing the absurd intergalactic adventures and dry British humor of the original story to the live stage.
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Life, the Universe and Everything is the third comedic science fiction novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, continuing the absurd adventures of Arthur Dent and his companions.
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a comic science fiction novel by Douglas Adams, serving as the second book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series and continuing the absurd adventures of Arthur Dent and his companions.
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Mostly Harmless
Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final novel in Douglas Adams's comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, continuing the misadventures of Arthur Dent in an absurd and satirical universe.
- 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)
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Target entity: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) Target entity description: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure co-designed by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky, known for its humorous, punishingly difficult text-based puzzles adapted from the original radio and book series.
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A.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedic science fiction series following the misadventures of an unwitting human and his alien friend as they travel through an absurd and satirical universe.
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B.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show) is a theatrical adaptation of Douglas Adams' cult science-fiction comedy, bringing the absurd intergalactic adventures and dry British humor of the original story to the live stage.
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C.
Life, the Universe and Everything
Life, the Universe and Everything is the third comedic science fiction novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, continuing the absurd adventures of Arthur Dent and his companions.
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D.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a comic science fiction novel by Douglas Adams, serving as the second book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series and continuing the absurd adventures of Arthur Dent and his companions.
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E.
Mostly Harmless
Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final novel in Douglas Adams's comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, continuing the misadventures of Arthur Dent in an absurd and satirical universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) Description of subject: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) is a 1984 interactive fiction adventure co-designed by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky, known for its humorous, punishingly difficult text-based puzzles adapted from the original radio and book series.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
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this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984 computer game)
this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984 video game)
this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984 video game)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (20th Anniversary Edition)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
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this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984 video game)