Annihilation
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Annihilation is a major Marvel Comics cosmic crossover event that centers on the villain Annihilus’s devastating invasion of the universe and prominently features heroes like the Silver Surfer and Nova.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Annihilation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11871846 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Annihilation Context triple: [Silver Surfer, notableStoryline, Annihilation]
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A.
Annihilation
Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction horror film, based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, that follows a biologist and her team exploring a mysterious and mutating environmental disaster zone.
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B.
Annihilation
Annihilation is a stand-up comedy album by Patton Oswalt featuring his characteristic blend of dark humor and personal storytelling.
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C.
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
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Annihilation: Conquest
Annihilation: Conquest is a Marvel Comics cosmic crossover event that follows the original Annihilation storyline, focusing on the Phalanx’s invasion of the Kree Empire and the formation of a new Guardians of the Galaxy team.
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E.
Millarworld
Millarworld is a creator-owned comic book imprint and shared universe founded by writer Mark Millar, known for titles like Kick-Ass, Wanted, and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Annihilation Target entity description: Annihilation is a major Marvel Comics cosmic crossover event that centers on the villain Annihilus’s devastating invasion of the universe and prominently features heroes like the Silver Surfer and Nova.
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A.
Annihilation
Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction horror film, based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, that follows a biologist and her team exploring a mysterious and mutating environmental disaster zone.
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B.
Annihilation
Annihilation is a stand-up comedy album by Patton Oswalt featuring his characteristic blend of dark humor and personal storytelling.
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C.
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
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D.
Annihilation: Conquest
Annihilation: Conquest is a Marvel Comics cosmic crossover event that follows the original Annihilation storyline, focusing on the Phalanx’s invasion of the Kree Empire and the formation of a new Guardians of the Galaxy team.
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E.
Millarworld
Millarworld is a creator-owned comic book imprint and shared universe founded by writer Mark Millar, known for titles like Kick-Ass, Wanted, and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marvel Comics crossover event
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comic book storyline ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacter |
Drax the Destroyer
NERFINISHED
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Firelord NERFINISHED ⓘ Galactus NERFINISHED ⓘ Gamora NERFINISHED ⓘ Moondragon NERFINISHED ⓘ Nova NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyla-Vell NERFINISHED ⓘ Quasar NERFINISHED ⓘ Ravenous NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronan the Accuser NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Surfer NERFINISHED ⓘ Star-Lord NERFINISHED ⓘ Super-Skrull NERFINISHED ⓘ Thanos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterArc |
Richard Rider becomes Nova Prime
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Silver Surfer’s renewed role as herald of Galactus ⓘ |
| featuresEvent |
destruction of Xandar
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reformation of Nova Corps ⓘ |
| featuresGroup |
Annihilation Wave
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Kree Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Nova Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ Skrull Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ United Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Annihilation Wave invasion ⓘ |
| format | limited series ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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space opera ⓘ superhero ⓘ |
| hasComponentSeries |
Annihilation (core miniseries)
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Annihilation: Nova GENERATED ⓘ Annihilation: Prologue GENERATED ⓘ Annihilation: Ronan GENERATED ⓘ Annihilation: Silver Surfer GENERATED ⓘ Annihilation: Super-Skrull GENERATED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | revitalizing Marvel cosmic line ⓘ |
| precedes | Annihilation: Conquest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryAntagonist | Annihilus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Marvel Comics ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Annihilation: Conquest
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Marvel Universe
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Marvel cosmic universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatens | entire universe ⓘ |
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: Annihilation Description of subject: Annihilation is a major Marvel Comics cosmic crossover event that centers on the villain Annihilus’s devastating invasion of the universe and prominently features heroes like the Silver Surfer and Nova.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.