I Shot an Arrow into the Air
E237703
"I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is a 1960 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows stranded astronauts whose desperate struggle for survival leads to a dark twist about their true location.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Shot an Arrow into the Air canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120494 — 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: I Shot an Arrow into the Air Context triple: [The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes), hasNotableEpisode, I Shot an Arrow into the Air]
-
A.
Arrow in the Dust
Arrow in the Dust is a 1954 American Western film starring Sterling Hayden as a cavalry deserter who assumes a dead officer’s identity to lead a wagon train through hostile territory.
-
B.
The Sky Is Crying
"The Sky Is Crying" is a posthumously released blues album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, showcasing his powerful guitar work and emotional interpretations of classic and original material.
-
C.
Mama’s Gun
Mama’s Gun is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu, known for its warm, live instrumentation and introspective, socially conscious songwriting.
-
D.
Wild Target
Wild Target is a 2010 British black comedy film about an aging hitman whose life is upended when he protects a quirky young woman, featuring Emily Blunt in a leading role.
-
E.
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a memoir-style book of conversations between journalist Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, reflecting on their family history, relationship, and life lessons.
- 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: I Shot an Arrow into the Air Target entity description: "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is a 1960 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows stranded astronauts whose desperate struggle for survival leads to a dark twist about their true location.
-
A.
Arrow in the Dust
Arrow in the Dust is a 1954 American Western film starring Sterling Hayden as a cavalry deserter who assumes a dead officer’s identity to lead a wagon train through hostile territory.
-
B.
The Sky Is Crying
"The Sky Is Crying" is a posthumously released blues album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, showcasing his powerful guitar work and emotional interpretations of classic and original material.
-
C.
Mama’s Gun
Mama’s Gun is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu, known for its warm, live instrumentation and introspective, socially conscious songwriting.
-
D.
Wild Target
Wild Target is a 2010 British black comedy film about an aging hitman whose life is upended when he protects a quirky young woman, featuring Emily Blunt in a leading role.
-
E.
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a memoir-style book of conversations between journalist Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, reflecting on their family history, relationship, and life lessons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
The Twilight Zone episode
ⓘ
television episode ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Madelyn Champion and Dalton Trumbo ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Dewey Martin
ⓘ
Edward Binns ⓘ Harry Bartell ⓘ Les Tremayne ⓘ Ted Otis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Stuart Rosenberg ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 15 ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Hitch-Hiker ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology television
ⓘ
science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasClosingMonologueBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| hasMoral | Human greed and fear can be more dangerous than the environment itself. ⓘ |
| hasOpeningMonologueBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| hasSetting | desert ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
The Twilight Zone (season 1)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes)
|
| leadActor | Dewey Martin ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Colonel Donlin
ⓘ
Corey ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrator | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| originalAirDate | 1960-01-15 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastIn | black-and-white television ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
The Twilight Zone
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| plotSummary | After a rocket crash, surviving astronauts believe they are stranded on an unknown asteroid and turn on each other while searching for water. ⓘ |
| plotTwist | The astronauts are actually in a desert on Earth, near civilization. ⓘ |
| precededBy | Third from the Sun ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
CBS Television
ⓘ
linked to:
CBS
Cayuga Productions ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 25 ⓘ |
| seasonNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| setIn | United States desert ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Dalton Trumbo
ⓘ
Madelyn Champion ⓘ |
| theme |
deception of appearances
ⓘ
isolation ⓘ moral choice ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | line from the poem The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ |
| writer | Rod Serling ⓘ |
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: I Shot an Arrow into the Air Description of subject: "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is a 1960 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows stranded astronauts whose desperate struggle for survival leads to a dark twist about their true location.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.