Life gun
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A Life gun is a pattern in Conway’s Game of Life that periodically generates an endless stream of moving configurations called gliders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Life gun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7337976 — 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: Life gun Context triple: [Gosper glider gun, category, Life gun]
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A.
Gun
"Gun" is a heavy, riff-driven rock track by Soundgarden from their 1989 album *Louder Than Love*.
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B.
Pistol
Pistol is a braggart, swaggering follower of Falstaff who appears as a comic, bombastic soldier in several of Shakespeare’s plays, including *The Merry Wives of Windsor*.
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C.
Rifle
Rifle is a small city in western Colorado known as a regional hub for outdoor recreation, particularly hunting, fishing, and rock climbing.
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D.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
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E.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
- 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: Life gun Target entity description: A Life gun is a pattern in Conway’s Game of Life that periodically generates an endless stream of moving configurations called gliders.
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A.
Gun
"Gun" is a heavy, riff-driven rock track by Soundgarden from their 1989 album *Louder Than Love*.
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B.
Pistol
Pistol is a braggart, swaggering follower of Falstaff who appears as a comic, bombastic soldier in several of Shakespeare’s plays, including *The Merry Wives of Windsor*.
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C.
Rifle
Rifle is a small city in western Colorado known as a regional hub for outdoor recreation, particularly hunting, fishing, and rock climbing.
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D.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
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E.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glider gun
ⓘ
pattern in Conway's Game of Life ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Game of Life pattern catalogs
ⓘ
linked to:
Game of Life
cellular automata research ⓘ |
| category |
gun pattern
ⓘ
periodic emitter ⓘ |
| cellStates | alive or dead ⓘ |
| evolvesIn |
Conway's Game of Life
ⓘ
linked to:
Game of Life
|
| hasBehavior | periodically emits gliders ⓘ |
| hasConceptualRole |
building block for logic circuits in Life
ⓘ
source of signals in Life engineering ⓘ |
| hasDefinition | a pattern in Conway’s Game of Life that periodically generates an endless stream of gliders ⓘ |
| hasDynamics | oscillatory emission of gliders ⓘ |
| hasOutput | moving configurations ⓘ |
| hasOutputType | spaceship pattern ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
periodic
ⓘ
translational symmetry in emitted gliders ⓘ unbounded growth in population over time ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
constructing complex patterns in cellular automata
ⓘ
demonstrating unbounded growth in Conway's Game of Life ⓘ showing computational universality of the Game of Life ⓘ |
| operatesOn | two-dimensional square grid ⓘ |
| outputName | glider ⓘ |
| produces |
endless stream of moving configurations
ⓘ
glider ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Conway's Game of Life
ⓘ
linked to:
Game of Life
glider ⓘ oscillator ⓘ spaceship ⓘ |
| updateRule | standard Conway's Game of Life rules ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Life gun Description of subject: A Life gun is a pattern in Conway’s Game of Life that periodically generates an endless stream of moving configurations called gliders.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.