Vulcan salute
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The Vulcan salute is a distinctive hand gesture from Star Trek, popularized by the character Spock and associated with the phrase "Live long and prosper."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vulcan salute canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141784 — 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: Vulcan salute Context triple: [Spock, knownFor, Vulcan salute]
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A.
Beam Me Up Scotty
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B.
Arecibo message
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C.
Labarum
The Labarum is an early Christian military standard bearing the Chi-Rho symbol, famously associated with the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
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D.
Rostra
The Rostra was the main speakers' platform in ancient Rome, from which magistrates and orators addressed crowds in the Roman Forum.
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E.
Termunten
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- 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: Vulcan salute Target entity description: The Vulcan salute is a distinctive hand gesture from Star Trek, popularized by the character Spock and associated with the phrase "Live long and prosper."
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A.
Beam Me Up Scotty
Beam Me Up Scotty is Nicki Minaj’s breakout mixtape that helped establish her distinctive style and propelled her rise in mainstream hip-hop.
-
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.
-
C.
Labarum
The Labarum is an early Christian military standard bearing the Chi-Rho symbol, famously associated with the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
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D.
Rostra
The Rostra was the main speakers' platform in ancient Rome, from which magistrates and orators addressed crowds in the Roman Forum.
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E.
Termunten
Termunten is a small village in the province of Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands, situated near the Ems estuary and the Wadden Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural symbol
ⓘ
fictional gesture ⓘ hand gesture ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Star Trek comics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Star Trek films NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek novels NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek television series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPhrase | Live long and prosper ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Spock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithSpecies | Vulcans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Star Trek symbols
ⓘ
fictional greetings ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalImpact |
adopted beyond Star Trek fandom
ⓘ
influenced real-world greetings ⓘ |
| fandomUsage |
symbol of Star Trek fandom
ⓘ
symbol of science fiction fandom ⓘ |
| fictionalCulture | Vulcan culture ⓘ |
| fictionalFunction |
expression of IDIC philosophy
ⓘ
formal greeting among Vulcans ⓘ |
| fictionalOrigin | planet Vulcan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | Star Trek: The Original Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gestureForm |
fingers parted between middle and ring finger
ⓘ
raised hand with palm forward ⓘ thumb extended ⓘ |
| hasFanTributeUse | used in memorials for Leonard Nimoy ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeCharacter | 🖖 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Jewish priestly blessing gesture ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Leonard Nimoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meaning |
goodwill
ⓘ
peace ⓘ prosperity ⓘ |
| mediaType | television-originated gesture ⓘ |
| originatedIn | Star Trek franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| popularizedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| portrayedByActor | Leonard Nimoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
pop culture icon
ⓘ
symbol of geek culture ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Live long and prosper ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlock | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UnicodeName | RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS ⓘ |
| usedAs |
farewell
ⓘ
greeting ⓘ |
| usedIn |
fan conventions
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internet communication ⓘ social media ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Vulcan salute Description of subject: The Vulcan salute is a distinctive hand gesture from Star Trek, popularized by the character Spock and associated with the phrase "Live long and prosper."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.