Deep Thought
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Deep Thought was an early IBM-developed chess computer that became famous for competing at a grandmaster level, including high-profile matches against world champion Garry Kasparov.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deep Thought canonical | 2 |
| Deep Thought (fictional computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) | 1 |
| Deep Thought II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3708910 — 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: Deep Thought Context triple: [Garry Kasparov, playedMatchAgainst, Deep Thought]
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A.
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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B.
Marvin the Paranoid Android
Marvin the Paranoid Android is a chronically depressed, hyper-intelligent robot from Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Deep Thought Target entity description: Deep Thought was an early IBM-developed chess computer that became famous for competing at a grandmaster level, including high-profile matches against world champion Garry Kasparov.
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A.
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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B.
Marvin the Paranoid Android
Marvin the Paranoid Android is a chronically depressed, hyper-intelligent robot from Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chess computer
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computer chess system ⓘ |
| achievement | won the 1989 World Computer Chess Championship ⓘ |
| basedOn | ChipTest project ⓘ |
| competition | World Computer Chess Championship ⓘ |
| computingParadigm | specialized hardware acceleration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedFor | high-speed chess position evaluation ⓘ |
| developer |
Feng-hsiung Hsu
ⓘ
IBM ⓘ Murray Campbell ⓘ Thomas Anantharaman ⓘ |
| EloRating | around 2550 ⓘ |
| era | late 1980s ⓘ |
| evaluationFunction | hand-crafted chess evaluation heuristics ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
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computer chess ⓘ |
| genre | dedicated chess hardware ⓘ |
| hardwareType | parallel computing system ⓘ |
| influenced | Deep Blue ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Deep Thought
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Deep Thought (fictional computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
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| legacy |
foundation for IBM’s later world-champion computer Deep Blue
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milestone in computer vs. human world champion chess matches ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | named after the fictional computer Deep Thought ⓘ |
| notableFor |
competing at grandmaster level in chess
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high-profile matches against Garry Kasparov ⓘ influencing the development of IBM Deep Blue ⓘ |
| notableMatch | exhibition games versus Garry Kasparov in 1989 ⓘ |
| organization | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center ⓘ |
| playedAgainst |
Garry Kasparov
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various human grandmasters ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C (core search code) ⓘ |
| searchDepth | capable of searching many plies deep using hardware support ⓘ |
| searchTechnique |
alpha–beta pruning
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brute-force search ⓘ |
| successor |
Deep Blue
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Deep Thought self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Deep Thought II
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| uses | special-purpose chess chips ⓘ |
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: Deep Thought Description of subject: Deep Thought was an early IBM-developed chess computer that became famous for competing at a grandmaster level, including high-profile matches against world champion Garry Kasparov.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Deep Thought II
this entity surface form:
Deep Thought (fictional computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)