Arthur Dent
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Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Dent canonical | 55 |
| Arthur Dent from open space near Magrathea | 1 |
| Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T119924 — 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: Arthur Dent Context triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Arthur Dent]
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A.
Roger the Alien
Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
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B.
Bardeen
Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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C.
Ellie Arroway
Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
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D.
Michael Hart
Michael Hart was the founder of Project Gutenberg and a pioneer of digital libraries and e-books.
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E.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
- 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: Arthur Dent Target entity description: Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
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A.
Roger the Alien
Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
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B.
Bardeen
Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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C.
Ellie Arroway
Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
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D.
Michael Hart
Michael Hart was the founder of Project Gutenberg and a pioneer of digital libraries and e-books.
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E.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Arthur Dent Description of subject: Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
And Another Thing... (by Eoin Colfer)
linked to: Arthur Dent
subject linked to:
Heart of Gold (spaceship)
subject linked to:
slogan on merchandise related to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
linked to: Arthur Dent