Genesis Block
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The Genesis Block is the inaugural block of the Bitcoin blockchain, created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and serving as the foundation of the entire Bitcoin network.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Block #0 | 1 |
| Block 0 | 1 |
| Genesis Block canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T265527 — 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: Genesis Block Context triple: [Bitcoin, firstBlockName, Genesis Block]
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A.
The Beginning
"The Beginning" is a song by John Legend from his R&B album "Love in the Future."
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B.
Dynamo
Dynamo is a prominent Russian sports club based in Moscow, best known for its professional football and ice hockey teams.
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C.
The First Edition
The First Edition was a late-1960s country-rock and pop band fronted by Kenny Rogers that gained fame with hits like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and later as Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
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D.
Beacon
Beacon is a small Hudson River city in New York State known for its vibrant arts scene, historic industrial roots, and the contemporary art museum Dia Beacon.
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E.
Atlas
Atlas is a Titan from Greek mythology best known for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders as punishment from the gods.
- 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: Genesis Block Target entity description: The Genesis Block is the inaugural block of the Bitcoin blockchain, created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and serving as the foundation of the entire Bitcoin network.
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A.
The Beginning
"The Beginning" is a song by John Legend from his R&B album "Love in the Future."
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B.
Dynamo
Dynamo is a prominent Russian sports club based in Moscow, best known for its professional football and ice hockey teams.
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C.
The First Edition
The First Edition was a late-1960s country-rock and pop band fronted by Kenny Rogers that gained fame with hits like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and later as Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
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D.
Beacon
Beacon is a small Hudson River city in New York State known for its vibrant arts scene, historic industrial roots, and the contemporary art museum Dia Beacon.
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E.
Atlas
Atlas is a Titan from Greek mythology best known for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders as punishment from the gods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bitcoin block
ⓘ
cryptocurrency genesis block ⓘ genesis block ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Genesis Block
ⓘ
surface form:
Block #0
Genesis Block ⓘ
surface form:
Block 0
|
| blockHeight | 0 ⓘ |
| blockReward | 50 BTC ⓘ |
| blockRewardSpendable | false ⓘ |
| blockTimeUnit | seconds since Unix epoch ⓘ |
| category |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
blockchain ⓘ cryptocurrency history ⓘ |
| chainId |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
surface form:
Bitcoin main chain
|
| chainPosition | first block in Bitcoin blockchain ⓘ |
| clientConfiguration | hardcoded in Bitcoin node software ⓘ |
| coinbaseMessage | "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" ⓘ |
| coinbaseMessageSource | The Times (London) newspaper headline ⓘ |
| consensusRole | anchor for proof-of-work chain ⓘ |
| containsCoinbaseTransaction | true ⓘ |
| creationDate | 2009-01-03 ⓘ |
| creator | Satoshi Nakamoto ⓘ |
| currency |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
surface form:
bitcoin
|
| difficultyTargetBits | 486604799 ⓘ |
| embeddedReference | 2008 financial crisis ⓘ |
| embeddedReferenceType | political and economic commentary ⓘ |
| followedBy | Block 1 ⓘ |
| hash | 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26 ⓘ |
| hashAlgorithm | double SHA-256 ⓘ |
| hasSpecialRules | true ⓘ |
| influenced | design of genesis blocks in other cryptocurrencies ⓘ |
| isSpendable | false ⓘ |
| merkleRoot | 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b ⓘ |
| network |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
surface form:
Bitcoin network
|
| networkType | mainnet ⓘ |
| nonce | 2083236893 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
surface form:
Bitcoin blockchain
|
| previousBlockHash | 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ⓘ |
| protocol |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
surface form:
Bitcoin protocol
|
| servesAs |
foundation of the Bitcoin blockchain
ⓘ
starting point of Bitcoin ledger history ⓘ |
| softwareClient | original Bitcoin client ⓘ |
| specialRuleDetail | coinbase transaction output is unspendable due to implementation details ⓘ |
| subsidy | 50 BTC ⓘ |
| symbolicSignificance |
birth of Bitcoin network
ⓘ
start of decentralized cryptocurrency era ⓘ |
| timestamp | 2009-01-03T18:15:05Z ⓘ |
| transactionCount | 1 ⓘ |
| usesProofOfWork | true ⓘ |
| version | 1 ⓘ |
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: Genesis Block Description of subject: The Genesis Block is the inaugural block of the Bitcoin blockchain, created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and serving as the foundation of the entire Bitcoin network.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Block 0
this entity surface form:
Block #0