tricorders
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Tricorders are multifunction handheld scanning and analysis devices in the Star Trek universe, used by Starfleet personnel for tasks such as environmental sensing, medical diagnostics, and data recording.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| tricorders canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5143448 — 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: tricorders Context triple: [Starfleet, usesTechnology, tricorders]
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A.
TR-42
TR-42 is the ISO 3166-2 regional code assigned to Turkey’s Konya Province.
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B.
Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator is Marvin the Martian’s iconic, overpowered cartoon super-weapon from the Looney Tunes universe, typically used in his comically grandiose plans to destroy planets.
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C.
Pip-Boy device
The Pip-Boy device is a wrist-mounted personal computer and heads-up display that serves as the player’s primary interface for stats, inventory, and navigation in the Fallout series.
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D.
Lasers
Lasers is Lupe Fiasco’s third studio album, known for its politically charged lyrics, pop-oriented production, and contentious relationship with both his label and core fanbase.
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E.
The Gadget
"The Gadget" was the codename for the first nuclear explosive device ever detonated, tested by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico in 1945.
- 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: tricorders Target entity description: Tricorders are multifunction handheld scanning and analysis devices in the Star Trek universe, used by Starfleet personnel for tasks such as environmental sensing, medical diagnostics, and data recording.
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A.
TR-42
TR-42 is the ISO 3166-2 regional code assigned to Turkey’s Konya Province.
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B.
Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator is Marvin the Martian’s iconic, overpowered cartoon super-weapon from the Looney Tunes universe, typically used in his comically grandiose plans to destroy planets.
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C.
Pip-Boy device
The Pip-Boy device is a wrist-mounted personal computer and heads-up display that serves as the player’s primary interface for stats, inventory, and navigation in the Fallout series.
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D.
Lasers
Lasers is Lupe Fiasco’s third studio album, known for its politically charged lyrics, pop-oriented production, and contentious relationship with both his label and core fanbase.
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E.
The Gadget
"The Gadget" was the codename for the first nuclear explosive device ever detonated, tested by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico in 1945.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional device
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handheld scanner ⓘ multifunction tool ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Star Trek franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Federation technology
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Starfleet medical division NERFINISHED ⓘ Starfleet science division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canInterfaceWith |
PADD
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
communicator ⓘ starship computer ⓘ |
| depictedAs | compact folding device ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | science fiction technology ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Star Trek universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Star Trek: The Original Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handheld | true ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
control interface
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data storage module ⓘ display screen ⓘ power cell ⓘ sensor array ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mark I tricorder
NERFINISHED
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Mark II tricorder NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark X tricorder NERFINISHED ⓘ engineering tricorder ⓘ medical tricorder ⓘ standard tricorder ⓘ |
| inspiredRealWorld |
field environmental sensors
ⓘ
portable medical diagnostic devices ⓘ |
| notableUser |
Beverly Crusher
NERFINISHED
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Data NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Spock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Starfleet medical personnel
ⓘ
trained Starfleet officers ⓘ |
| portable | true ⓘ |
| technologyLevel |
23rd century Starfleet technology
ⓘ
24th century Starfleet technology ⓘ |
| typicalUser |
engineering officer
ⓘ
medical officer ⓘ science officer ⓘ |
| usedBy | Starfleet personnel ⓘ |
| usedFor |
atmospheric analysis
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data recording ⓘ electromagnetic field detection ⓘ environmental sensing ⓘ geological survey ⓘ life-form detection ⓘ medical diagnostics ⓘ radiation measurement ⓘ scientific analysis ⓘ |
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: tricorders Description of subject: Tricorders are multifunction handheld scanning and analysis devices in the Star Trek universe, used by Starfleet personnel for tasks such as environmental sensing, medical diagnostics, and data recording.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.