Time Lock
E353331
Time Lock is a temporal security mechanism in science fiction that seals events or locations outside normal time, preventing interference or alteration from within the time stream.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Time Lock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3389207 — 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: Time Lock Context triple: [Time Vortex, relatedConcept, Time Lock]
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A.
Time Vaults
Time Vaults are heavily secured chambers on Gallifrey used by the Time Lords to imprison or safeguard dangerous temporal artifacts, entities, and secrets.
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B.
Time
Time is a 1995 song by the American rock band Screaming Trees, featured on their album "Dust."
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C.
Time
Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
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D.
Deadline
"Deadline" is a classic science fiction short story, best known for its influential early depiction of nuclear weapons and its publication in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.
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E.
Perfect Timing
Perfect Timing is a music project by rapper and producer Nav, showcasing his melodic trap style and atmospheric production.
- 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: Time Lock Target entity description: Time Lock is a temporal security mechanism in science fiction that seals events or locations outside normal time, preventing interference or alteration from within the time stream.
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A.
Time Vaults
Time Vaults are heavily secured chambers on Gallifrey used by the Time Lords to imprison or safeguard dangerous temporal artifacts, entities, and secrets.
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B.
Time
Time is a 1995 song by the American rock band Screaming Trees, featured on their album "Dust."
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C.
Time
Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
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D.
Deadline
"Deadline" is a classic science fiction short story, best known for its influential early depiction of nuclear weapons and its publication in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.
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E.
Perfect Timing
Perfect Timing is a music project by rapper and producer Nav, showcasing his melodic trap style and atmospheric production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional temporal security mechanism
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science fiction concept ⓘ |
| affects |
events
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locations ⓘ |
| conceptualDomain |
temporal mechanics in fiction
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time travel fiction ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | open time travel access ⓘ |
| creates |
causally isolated zone
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sealed temporal region ⓘ |
| effectOnInside | internal events cannot be altered from outside time stream ⓘ |
| effectOnOutside | external time travelers cannot access sealed region ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
prevention of temporal interference
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prevention of timeline alteration ⓘ temporal security ⓘ |
| involves |
chronological protection
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manipulation of causality ⓘ temporal isolation ⓘ |
| metaphorFor |
fixed destiny in storytelling
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narrative inevitability ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
constraint on time travelers
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explanation for immutable history ⓘ plot device to fix events ⓘ |
| operatesOn | time stream ⓘ |
| property |
exists outside normal time
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one-way protection of history ⓘ prevents access from normal time ⓘ prevents alteration of sealed events ⓘ prevents interference from within the time stream ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
causality lock
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temporal shield ⓘ time dilation ⓘ time loop ⓘ |
| requires | advanced temporal technology (in fiction) ⓘ |
| scope |
can apply to entire timelines
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can apply to regions of spacetime ⓘ can apply to single events ⓘ |
| temporalDirection | typically blocks changes from both past and future ⓘ |
| usedFor |
containing temporal anomalies
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preventing paradoxes ⓘ protecting key historical events ⓘ quarantining dangerous entities in time ⓘ |
| usedIn | science fiction narratives ⓘ |
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: Time Lock Description of subject: Time Lock is a temporal security mechanism in science fiction that seals events or locations outside normal time, preventing interference or alteration from within the time stream.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.