Needle in a Timestack
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Needle in a Timestack is a 2021 science-fiction romance film about time manipulation and its impact on relationships, based on a short story by Robert Silverberg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Needle in a Timestack canonical | 1 |
| Needle in a Timestack (short story) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13550051 — 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: Needle in a Timestack Context triple: [Cynthia Erivo, notableWork, Needle in a Timestack]
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A.
Needlehole
Needlehole is a small rural village in the Shire of Middle-earth, known for its quiet hobbit community and pastoral surroundings.
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B.
A Needle in a Haystack
"A Needle in a Haystack" is a popular 1930s song best known for its performance by Fred Astaire in the classic Hollywood musical film "The Gay Divorcee."
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C.
Broken Needle
"Broken Needle" is a track from Marilyn Manson's 2020 studio album *We Are Chaos*, known for its dark, introspective tone and atmospheric rock sound.
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D.
Needle
"Needle" is an instrumental track from the Game of Thrones Season 6 soundtrack, composed by Ramin Djawadi and thematically associated with Arya Stark and her sword.
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E.
Needle
Needle is a science fiction novel, originally serialized and later published in book form, known for its story about a symbiotic alien "hunter" that inhabits a human host to track a criminal counterpart.
- 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: Needle in a Timestack Target entity description: Needle in a Timestack is a 2021 science-fiction romance film about time manipulation and its impact on relationships, based on a short story by Robert Silverberg.
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A.
Needlehole
Needlehole is a small rural village in the Shire of Middle-earth, known for its quiet hobbit community and pastoral surroundings.
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B.
A Needle in a Haystack
"A Needle in a Haystack" is a popular 1930s song best known for its performance by Fred Astaire in the classic Hollywood musical film "The Gay Divorcee."
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C.
Broken Needle
"Broken Needle" is a track from Marilyn Manson's 2020 studio album *We Are Chaos*, known for its dark, introspective tone and atmospheric rock sound.
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D.
Needle
"Needle" is an instrumental track from the Game of Thrones Season 6 soundtrack, composed by Ramin Djawadi and thematically associated with Arya Stark and her sword.
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E.
Needle
Needle is a science fiction novel, originally serialized and later published in book form, known for its story about a symbiotic alien "hunter" that inhabits a human host to track a criminal counterpart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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romance film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | short story ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Needle in a Timestack (short story)
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linked to:
Needle in a Timestack
|
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
romance
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalElement |
changed timelines
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erased memories ⓘ time-editing technology ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
alternate timelines
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marriage ⓘ memory ⓘ time travel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
romantic relationships
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time manipulation ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | impact of time alteration on relationships ⓘ |
| originalWorkGenre | science fiction short story ⓘ |
| originalWorkMedium | literature ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 2020s films ⓘ |
| workType | feature film ⓘ |
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: Needle in a Timestack Description of subject: Needle in a Timestack is a 2021 science-fiction romance film about time manipulation and its impact on relationships, based on a short story by Robert Silverberg.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Needle in a Timestack