Cosmic Call
E268000
Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence initiative
active SETI project
interstellar radio message
Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cosmic Call canonical | 3 |
| Cosmic Call 1999 | 2 |
| Cosmic Call 2003 | 2 |
| Cosmic Call 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2459063 — 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: Cosmic Call Context triple: [Teen Age Message, relatedTo, Cosmic Call]
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A.
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
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B.
Arecibo message
The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio transmission sent from the Arecibo Observatory toward a distant star cluster, encoding basic information about humanity and Earth in a binary pictorial format.
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C.
The Nine Billion Names of God
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a classic science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of religion, technology, and the end of the universe through a Tibetan monastery's quest to list all possible names of God.
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D.
A Message From Earth
A Message From Earth is a digital time capsule containing messages and images from people around the world that was beamed into space toward the exoplanet Gliese 581c in 2008 as a form of interstellar communication.
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E.
Intergalactic Radio Station
Intergalactic Radio Station is a fictional or conceptual broadcasting hub imagined to transmit audio signals across vast cosmic distances between galaxies.
- 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: Cosmic Call Target entity description: Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
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A.
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
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B.
Arecibo message
The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio transmission sent from the Arecibo Observatory toward a distant star cluster, encoding basic information about humanity and Earth in a binary pictorial format.
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C.
The Nine Billion Names of God
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a classic science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of religion, technology, and the end of the universe through a Tibetan monastery's quest to list all possible names of God.
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D.
A Message From Earth
A Message From Earth is a digital time capsule containing messages and images from people around the world that was beamed into space toward the exoplanet Gliese 581c in 2008 as a form of interstellar communication.
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E.
Intergalactic Radio Station
Intergalactic Radio Station is a fictional or conceptual broadcasting hub imagined to transmit audio signals across vast cosmic distances between galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence initiative
ⓘ
active SETI project ⓘ interstellar radio message ⓘ interstellar radio message ⓘ interstellar radio message ⓘ |
| containsMessageType |
audio message
ⓘ
digital data ⓘ pictorial message ⓘ text message ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Earth ⓘ |
| distanceScale | nearby Sun-like stars ⓘ |
| field |
SETI
ⓘ
radio astronomy ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Cosmic Call
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cosmic Call 1999
Cosmic Call self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cosmic Call 2003
|
| includesContent |
information about humanity
ⓘ
information about humanity ⓘ mathematical information ⓘ mathematical information ⓘ personal messages from people on Earth ⓘ personal messages from people on Earth ⓘ scientific information about Earth ⓘ scientific information about Earth ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Crimea
ⓘ
Yevpatoria ⓘ
surface form:
Evpatoria
Ukraine ⓘ |
| locationOfTransmitter |
Evpatoria planetary radar
ⓘ
surface form:
Evpatoria Planetary Radar
|
| method | narrowband radio transmission ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the earliest large-scale active SETI efforts ⓘ |
| organizedBy |
Evpatoria planetary radar
ⓘ
surface form:
Evpatoria Deep Space Center
Russian Academy of Sciences ⓘ Team Encounter ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cosmic Call
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Cosmic Call self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| purpose |
attempt to initiate communication with extraterrestrial civilizations
ⓘ
test long-distance interstellar radio communication ⓘ |
| sentFrom |
Evpatoria planetary radar
ⓘ
surface form:
Evpatoria Planetary Radar
Evpatoria planetary radar ⓘ
surface form:
Evpatoria Planetary Radar
|
| targetedStarSystem |
47 Ursae Majoris
ⓘ
HD 178428 ⓘ HD 186408 ⓘ HD 190360 ⓘ HD 178428 ⓘ
surface form:
HD 197076
HD 245409 ⓘ HIP 4872 ⓘ |
| transmissionFrequency |
5010 MHz
ⓘ
5010 MHz ⓘ 5010 MHz ⓘ |
| usedTransmitter |
Evpatoria RT-70 radio telescope
ⓘ
surface form:
RT-70 radio telescope
|
| year |
1999
ⓘ
2003 ⓘ |
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: Cosmic Call Description of subject: Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cosmic Call 1999
this entity surface form:
Cosmic Call 2003
this entity surface form:
Cosmic Call 1999
this entity surface form:
Cosmic Call 2003
subject surface form:
Cosmic Call 1999
subject surface form:
Cosmic Call 2003
this entity surface form:
Cosmic Call 2