Arkangel tablet interface
E134623
The Arkangel tablet interface is a fictional parental control device from the Black Mirror episode "Arkangel" that allows invasive real-time monitoring and filtering of a child’s experiences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arkangel tablet interface canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1181095 — 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: Arkangel tablet interface Context triple: [Black Mirror: Arkangel, fictionalTechnology, Arkangel tablet interface]
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A.
Enyo
Enyo is a Greek goddess of war and destruction, often depicted as a close companion and counterpart to the war god Ares.
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B.
Kinza Browser
Kinza Browser is a Japanese-developed, Chromium-based web browser that offers extensive customization options and user-centric features built on the Blink rendering engine.
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C.
Appar
Appar was a prominent 7th-century Tamil Shaivite saint and poet whose devotional hymns greatly shaped the Bhakti movement in South India.
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D.
Jamnik
Jamnik is a character from B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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E.
Star user interface
The Star user interface was Xerox’s pioneering graphical user interface that introduced concepts like icons, windows, and desktop metaphors, heavily influencing later systems such as the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.
- 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: Arkangel tablet interface Target entity description: The Arkangel tablet interface is a fictional parental control device from the Black Mirror episode "Arkangel" that allows invasive real-time monitoring and filtering of a child’s experiences.
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A.
Enyo
Enyo is a Greek goddess of war and destruction, often depicted as a close companion and counterpart to the war god Ares.
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B.
Kinza Browser
Kinza Browser is a Japanese-developed, Chromium-based web browser that offers extensive customization options and user-centric features built on the Blink rendering engine.
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C.
Appar
Appar was a prominent 7th-century Tamil Shaivite saint and poet whose devotional hymns greatly shaped the Bhakti movement in South India.
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D.
Jamnik
Jamnik is a character from B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
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E.
Star user interface
The Star user interface was Xerox’s pioneering graphical user interface that introduced concepts like icons, windows, and desktop metaphors, heavily influencing later systems such as the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional device
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fictional surveillance technology ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Black Mirror ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode | Arkangel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
child autonomy
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parental overprotection ⓘ privacy invasion ⓘ surveillance ⓘ technological control ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Arkangel implant ⓘ |
| controlledBy | parent or guardian ⓘ |
| controls | Arkangel implant ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorInFiction | Arkangel Corporation ⓘ |
| critiquedAs | example of surveillance capitalism (in commentary) ⓘ |
| depictsTechnology |
brain–computer interface
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ubiquitous surveillance ⓘ |
| designedFor | child safety (in-universe justification) ⓘ |
| enables |
audio censorship of disturbing content
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geofencing ⓘ health alerts ⓘ live video feed from child’s perspective ⓘ playback of recorded experiences ⓘ visual censorship of disturbing content ⓘ |
| firstAiredInYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| franchise | Black Mirror ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasConsequenceInPlot |
breakdown of parent–child trust
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psychological harm to child ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
biometric monitoring
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content censorship ⓘ experience filtering ⓘ location tracking ⓘ parental control ⓘ real-time child monitoring ⓘ |
| interfaceType | touchscreen tablet ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| monitors | Sara Sambrell ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central plot device ⓘ |
| partOfWork |
Black Mirror episode Arkangel
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linked to:
Black Mirror: Arkangel
|
| screenDepiction |
filter and block controls
ⓘ
live video thumbnail grid ⓘ tablet-based control dashboard ⓘ |
| tracks |
heart rate
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location ⓘ stress levels ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter | Marie Sambrell ⓘ |
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: Arkangel tablet interface Description of subject: The Arkangel tablet interface is a fictional parental control device from the Black Mirror episode "Arkangel" that allows invasive real-time monitoring and filtering of a child’s experiences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.