The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is a 1991 film adaptation of Lily Tomlin’s acclaimed one-woman stage show, blending comedy and social commentary as she portrays multiple characters reflecting on modern life and human connection.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe canonical | 7 |
| The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (stage play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8037642 — 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: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Context triple: [Sally Menke, editedFilm, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe]
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A.
Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations
"Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations" is a seminal 1964 paper by Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev that laid the foundations for modern SETI and introduced the concept of classifying civilizations by their energy consumption.
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B.
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
"Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence" is a seminal work edited by Carl Sagan that explores the scientific, technical, and philosophical challenges of contacting and understanding intelligent life beyond Earth.
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C.
Arecibo message
The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio transmission sent from the Arecibo Observatory toward a distant star cluster, encoding basic information about humanity and Earth in a binary pictorial format.
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D.
Searching for Interstellar Communications
"Searching for Interstellar Communications" is a seminal 1959 scientific paper by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison that laid the foundations for the modern Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by proposing the use of radio waves to detect alien civilizations.
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E.
Cosmic Call
Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
- 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: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Target entity description: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is a 1991 film adaptation of Lily Tomlin’s acclaimed one-woman stage show, blending comedy and social commentary as she portrays multiple characters reflecting on modern life and human connection.
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A.
Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations
"Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations" is a seminal 1964 paper by Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev that laid the foundations for modern SETI and introduced the concept of classifying civilizations by their energy consumption.
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B.
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
"Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence" is a seminal work edited by Carl Sagan that explores the scientific, technical, and philosophical challenges of contacting and understanding intelligent life beyond Earth.
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C.
Arecibo message
The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio transmission sent from the Arecibo Observatory toward a distant star cluster, encoding basic information about humanity and Earth in a binary pictorial format.
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D.
Searching for Interstellar Communications
"Searching for Interstellar Communications" is a seminal 1959 scientific paper by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison that laid the foundations for the modern Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by proposing the use of radio waves to detect alien civilizations.
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E.
Cosmic Call
Cosmic Call was a series of interstellar radio messages sent from Earth to nearby stars as part of early efforts in active SETI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Lily Tomlin’s stage show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (stage play) ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | one-woman stage show ⓘ |
| castMember | Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| features |
character sketches
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monologues ⓘ |
| featuresPerformanceType | one-woman performance ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
concert film ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
feminism
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identity ⓘ pop culture ⓘ social critique ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
human connection
ⓘ
modern life ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFor | blend of comedy and social commentary ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | multiple characters ⓘ |
| productionType | filmed stage performance ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| star | Lily Tomlin ⓘ |
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: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Description of subject: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is a 1991 film adaptation of Lily Tomlin’s acclaimed one-woman stage show, blending comedy and social commentary as she portrays multiple characters reflecting on modern life and human connection.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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basedOn
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (stage play)
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linked to: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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hasTitle
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Mary
subject linked to:
Lily