Universe
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The Universe is the totality of all space, time, matter, energy, and physical laws that exist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Universe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1847321 — 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: Universe Context triple: [The Universe in a Nutshell, titleContains, Universe]
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A.
The Universe
The Universe is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, history, and phenomena of the cosmos in accessible language for general readers.
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B.
observable universe
The observable universe is the portion of the entire cosmos that we can in principle detect or observe from Earth, limited by the finite speed of light and the age of the universe.
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C.
Galaxy
Galaxy is a professional soccer club based in the Los Angeles area that competes in Major League Soccer and is known for signing high-profile international stars.
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D.
Galaxy
Galaxy is Samsung’s flagship line of Android smartphones and tablets known for its high-end hardware, advanced displays, and wide range of models from budget to premium.
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E.
Kosmos
Kosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-volume work that presents a comprehensive scientific and philosophical overview of the natural world and 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: Universe Target entity description: The Universe is the totality of all space, time, matter, energy, and physical laws that exist.
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A.
The Universe
The Universe is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, history, and phenomena of the cosmos in accessible language for general readers.
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B.
observable universe
The observable universe is the portion of the entire cosmos that we can in principle detect or observe from Earth, limited by the finite speed of light and the age of the universe.
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C.
Galaxy
Galaxy is a professional soccer club based in the Los Angeles area that competes in Major League Soccer and is known for signing high-profile international stars.
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D.
Galaxy
Galaxy is Samsung’s flagship line of Android smartphones and tablets known for its high-end hardware, advanced displays, and wide range of models from budget to premium.
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E.
Kosmos
Kosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-volume work that presents a comprehensive scientific and philosophical overview of the natural world and the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cosmological entity
ⓘ
physical system ⓘ totality ⓘ |
| ageInYears | 1.38e10 ⓘ |
| beganWith | hot dense state ⓘ |
| contains |
dark energy
ⓘ
dark matter ⓘ energy ⓘ fundamental forces ⓘ fundamental particles ⓘ galaxies ⓘ galaxy clusters ⓘ intergalactic medium ⓘ matter ⓘ planets ⓘ space ⓘ stars ⓘ superclusters ⓘ time ⓘ voids ⓘ |
| describedBy |
Lambda-CDM model
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surface form:
ΛCDM model
|
| expandsAccordingTo |
Lemaître–Hubble law
ⓘ
surface form:
Hubble–Lemaître law
|
| governedBy | physical laws ⓘ |
| hasApproximateAge | 13.8 billion years ⓘ |
| hasAverageCMBTemperature | 2.725 K ⓘ |
| hasBaryonDensityParameter | about 0.05 ⓘ |
| hasCosmicHorizon |
event horizon (model-dependent)
ⓘ
particle horizon ⓘ |
| hasDarkEnergyDensityParameter | about 0.68 ⓘ |
| hasDarkMatterDensityParameter | about 0.27 ⓘ |
| hasDefinition | the totality of all space, time, matter, energy, and physical laws that exist ⓘ |
| hasEarlyPhase | inflationary epoch (in many models) ⓘ |
| hasEra |
dark-energy-dominated era
ⓘ
matter-dominated era ⓘ radiation-dominated era ⓘ |
| hasGeometry | spatially flat on large scales ⓘ |
| hasLargeScaleStructure | cosmic web ⓘ |
| hasMatterComponent |
baryonic matter
ⓘ
non-baryonic dark matter ⓘ |
| hasObservableDiameter | about 93 billion light-years ⓘ |
| hasObservableRadius | about 46.5 billion light-years ⓘ |
| hasOriginModel |
Big Bang
ⓘ
surface form:
Big Bang theory
|
| hasProperty | expanding ⓘ |
| hasRadiationComponent | cosmic microwave background ⓘ |
| hasSpatialExtent | possibly infinite (current observations consistent with flatness) ⓘ |
| hasSynonym | cosmos ⓘ |
| hasTemporalExtent | finite since Big Bang in standard cosmology ⓘ |
| hasTotalEnergyComponent | dark energy dominated ⓘ |
| obeyed | general relativity on large scales ⓘ |
| studiedBy | cosmology ⓘ |
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: Universe Description of subject: The Universe is the totality of all space, time, matter, energy, and physical laws that exist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.