Wikkit Key
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The Wikkit Key is a powerful and intricate device in Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything" that can unlock the sealed planet of Krikkit and unleash its destructive inhabitants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikkit Key canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450095 — 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: Wikkit Key Context triple: [Life, the Universe and Everything, hasNotableObject, Wikkit Key]
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A.
The Keys of the Kingdom
The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1944 drama film in which Gregory Peck portrays a humble Scottish priest whose lifelong missionary work in China tests his faith and resilience.
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B.
Wight and Wight
Wight and Wight was a prominent early-20th-century American architectural firm based in Kansas City, known for its monumental Neoclassical and Art Deco public buildings.
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C.
Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus is a historic British publishing house known for issuing works by prominent authors of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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D.
Kipps
Kipps is a 1905 social novel by H. G. Wells that follows the rise of a humble draper’s apprentice after an unexpected inheritance, exploring class mobility and Edwardian society.
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E.
House of Keys
The House of Keys is the directly elected lower chamber of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, responsible for initiating legislation and representing the island’s constituencies.
- 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: Wikkit Key Target entity description: The Wikkit Key is a powerful and intricate device in Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything" that can unlock the sealed planet of Krikkit and unleash its destructive inhabitants.
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A.
The Keys of the Kingdom
The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1944 drama film in which Gregory Peck portrays a humble Scottish priest whose lifelong missionary work in China tests his faith and resilience.
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B.
Wight and Wight
Wight and Wight was a prominent early-20th-century American architectural firm based in Kansas City, known for its monumental Neoclassical and Art Deco public buildings.
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C.
Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus is a historic British publishing house known for issuing works by prominent authors of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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D.
Kipps
Kipps is a 1905 social novel by H. G. Wells that follows the rise of a humble draper’s apprentice after an unexpected inheritance, exploring class mobility and Edwardian society.
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E.
House of Keys
The House of Keys is the directly elected lower chamber of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, responsible for initiating legislation and representing the island’s constituencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional object
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key ⓘ plot device ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Life, the Universe and Everything ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlanet |
Krikkit
ⓘ
linked to:
Krikkit war
|
| composition | multiple components scattered across space and time ⓘ |
| creator | Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982 novel)
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linked to:
Life, the Universe and Everything
|
| function |
release the inhabitants of Krikkit
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unlock the seal around the planet Krikkit ⓘ |
| genreContext | comic science fiction ⓘ |
| guardedBy | various custodians across the universe ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central object of the main quest in Life, the Universe and Everything ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Arthur Dent
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Ford Prefect ⓘ Slartibartfast ⓘ Trillian ⓘ |
| power | capable of unleashing the destructive forces of Krikkit ⓘ |
| property |
intricate
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powerful ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Krikkit Wars
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linked to:
Krikkit war
cosmic imprisonment of Krikkit ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | attempted escape of Krikkit from temporal imprisonment ⓘ |
| risk | its assembly threatens universal destruction ⓘ |
| sealType | cosmic lock around Krikkit ⓘ |
| soughtBy |
Krikkit robots
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inhabitants of Krikkit ⓘ protagonists of Life, the Universe and Everything ⓘ |
| statusInStory | disassembled for safety ⓘ |
| threatLevel | existential threat to the universe when completed ⓘ |
| universe |
The Hitchhiker's Guide universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
|
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: Wikkit Key Description of subject: The Wikkit Key is a powerful and intricate device in Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything" that can unlock the sealed planet of Krikkit and unleash its destructive inhabitants.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.