The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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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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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T44780 — 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: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Context triple: [Douglas Adams, notableWork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
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Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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B.
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams was a British author and humorist best known for creating the science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that champions critical thinking and the scientific method as antidotes to superstition and pseudoscience.
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D.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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E.
The Ants
The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize–winning scientific book that provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ant biology, behavior, and social organization.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Target entity description: 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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A.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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B.
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams was a British author and humorist best known for creating the science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
Per Ardua ad Astra
Per Ardua ad Astra is the Latin motto of the Royal Air Force, traditionally translated as “Through adversity to the stars,” expressing courage and aspiration in the face of hardship.
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The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that champions critical thinking and the scientific method as antidotes to superstition and pseudoscience.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British science fiction franchise
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science fiction comedy series ⓘ |
| awarded | Golden Pan Award ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981 TV series)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005 film)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show) ⓘ |
| hasFandom | cult following ⓘ |
| hasForm |
feature film
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novel series ⓘ radio series ⓘ stage production ⓘ television series ⓘ video game ⓘ |
| hasPart |
And Another Thing...
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Life, the Universe and Everything ⓘ Mostly Harmless ⓘ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ⓘ |
| influenced | British science fiction comedy ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Arthur Dent
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Ford Prefect ⓘ Marvin the Paranoid Android ⓘ Trillian ⓘ Zaphod Beeblebrox ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything ⓘ |
| notableNumber | 42 ⓘ |
| notableObject | The Guide ⓘ |
| notablePhrase |
Don't Panic
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So long, and thanks for all the fish ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | radio series ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC Radio 4 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Del Rey Books
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Pan Books ⓘ |
| setting |
Earth
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Milky Way ⓘ
surface form:
Milky Way galaxy
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| theme |
absurdity of the universe
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critique of modern society ⓘ satire of bureaucracy ⓘ |
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: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (253)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise
this entity surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (franchise)