Third from the Sun
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Third from the Sun is a 1960 episode of the television anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows two families attempting to escape an impending nuclear war by fleeing to a mysterious distant planet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Third from the Sun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9795355 — 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: Third from the Sun Context triple: [I Shot an Arrow into the Air, precededBy, Third from the Sun]
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A.
Sphere of the Sun
The Sphere of the Sun is the fourth celestial heaven in Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, where the poet encounters the radiant souls of great theologians and philosophers who embody divine wisdom.
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B.
Le Mars
Le Mars is a small city in northwestern Iowa known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World" for its large ice cream production industry.
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C.
Sunny Earth
"Sunny Earth" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis from his 1998 electronic and ambient album "Earth."
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D.
Counter-Earth
Counter-Earth is a hypothetical celestial body proposed in ancient Greek astronomy, imagined as a planet always hidden behind the Sun and used to explain observed cosmic order and numerical harmony.
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E.
Solsidan
Solsidan is a residential area in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, known for its affluent seaside villas and as the setting of a popular Swedish TV comedy series of the same name.
- 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: Third from the Sun Target entity description: Third from the Sun is a 1960 episode of the television anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows two families attempting to escape an impending nuclear war by fleeing to a mysterious distant planet.
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A.
Sphere of the Sun
The Sphere of the Sun is the fourth celestial heaven in Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, where the poet encounters the radiant souls of great theologians and philosophers who embody divine wisdom.
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B.
Le Mars
Le Mars is a small city in northwestern Iowa known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World" for its large ice cream production industry.
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C.
Sunny Earth
"Sunny Earth" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis from his 1998 electronic and ambient album "Earth."
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D.
Counter-Earth
Counter-Earth is a hypothetical celestial body proposed in ancient Greek astronomy, imagined as a planet always hidden behind the Sun and used to explain observed cosmic order and numerical harmony.
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E.
Solsidan
Solsidan is a residential area in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, known for its affluent seaside villas and as the setting of a popular Swedish TV comedy series of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television episode ⓘ |
| airDateYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Third from the Sun (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Richard Matheson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| broadcastOrderInSeries | 14 ⓘ |
| centralConflict | escape from authoritarian government before nuclear war begins ⓘ |
| closingNarrationBy | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Richard L. Bare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
Cold War anxiety
ⓘ
escape ⓘ nuclear war ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| followedByEpisode | I Shot an Arrow into the Air NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology television
ⓘ
drama ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTwistEnding | true ⓘ |
| isAnthologyEpisodeOf | The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jerry Riden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Sturka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrator | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early exploration of nuclear paranoia on American television ⓘ |
| openingNarrationBy | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalAirDate | 1960-01-08 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | Columbia Broadcasting System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two families attempt to escape an impending nuclear war by fleeing their planet in a stolen spacecraft. ⓘ |
| plotTwist | The supposedly distant planet is revealed to be Earth, the third planet from the Sun. ⓘ |
| precededByEpisode | What You Need NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cayuga Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | scientist ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 25 ⓘ |
| scriptAdaptationType | short story adaptation ⓘ |
| season | Season 1 ⓘ |
| series | The Twilight Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | a technologically advanced but war-threatened planet ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | near future ⓘ |
| title | Third from the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDevice | stolen experimental spacecraft ⓘ |
| writer | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Third from the Sun Description of subject: Third from the Sun is a 1960 episode of the television anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows two families attempting to escape an impending nuclear war by fleeing to a mysterious distant planet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.