A Message From Earth
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A Message From Earth is a digital time capsule containing messages and images from people around the world that was beamed into space toward the exoplanet Gliese 581c in 2008 as a form of interstellar communication.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Message From Earth canonical | 2 |
| A Message From Earth 2008 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T432802 — 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: A Message From Earth Context triple: [Arecibo message, followedBy, A Message From Earth]
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A.
The Endangered Earth
The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
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B.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
Pale Blue Dot
"Pale Blue Dot" is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that reflects on humanity’s place in the universe, inspired by the famous Voyager 1 photograph of Earth from deep space.
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E.
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
- 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: A Message From Earth Target entity description: A Message From Earth is a digital time capsule containing messages and images from people around the world that was beamed into space toward the exoplanet Gliese 581c in 2008 as a form of interstellar communication.
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A.
The Endangered Earth
The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
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B.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
Pale Blue Dot
"Pale Blue Dot" is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that reflects on humanity’s place in the universe, inspired by the famous Voyager 1 photograph of Earth from deep space.
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E.
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural artifact
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digital time capsule ⓘ interstellar message ⓘ |
| aimsToRepresent |
contemporary human civilization
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diversity of human life ⓘ |
| associatedWith | SETI-related outreach ⓘ |
| contains |
images from people around the world
ⓘ
messages from people around the world ⓘ |
| dataFormat | digital encoding ⓘ |
| destinationStarSystem | Gliese 581 star system ⓘ |
| hasContributor | people from many countries ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
interstellar communication
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to send messages from humans to extraterrestrial intelligences ⓘ |
| isCrowdsourced | true ⓘ |
| isDigital | true ⓘ |
| isIntendedAudience | extraterrestrial intelligences ⓘ |
| isOneOf | early 21st-century interstellar messages ⓘ |
| isPhysicalArtifact | false ⓘ |
| isPublicParticipationProject | true ⓘ |
| isTimeCapsule | true ⓘ |
| language | multiple human languages ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| launchMethod | radio transmission ⓘ |
| medium | digital data ⓘ |
| origin | Earth ⓘ |
| signalOrigin | Earth-based radio transmitter ⓘ |
| target | Gliese 581c ⓘ |
| targetType | exoplanet ⓘ |
| theme |
hopes for the future
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human culture ⓘ human emotions ⓘ |
| transmissionType | beamed signal ⓘ |
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: A Message From Earth Description of subject: A Message From Earth is a digital time capsule containing messages and images from people around the world that was beamed into space toward the exoplanet Gliese 581c in 2008 as a form of interstellar communication.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Message From Earth