Our Final Hour
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Our Final Hour is a science-focused book by cosmologist Martin Rees that warns about existential risks facing humanity in the 21st century and argues for responsible use of advanced technologies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Our Final Hour canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8396925 — 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: Our Final Hour Context triple: [Martin Rees, hasWritten, Our Final Hour]
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A.
Until the Final Hour
"Until the Final Hour" is the memoir of Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s final private secretary, recounting her experiences inside the Führerbunker during the last days of the Third Reich.
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B.
The Final Hours
The Final Hours is a memoir by German Luftwaffe ace and later NATO commander Johannes Steinhoff, recounting his experiences during the final phase of World War II and its aftermath.
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C.
The Final Days
The Final Days is a nonfiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that chronicles the tumultuous final months of Richard Nixon’s presidency and the Watergate scandal.
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D.
The Last Day
"The Last Day" is a song featured on the album "On Purpose."
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E.
Day of Reckoning
Day of Reckoning is a concept signifying a final moment of judgment or ultimate accountability, often depicted in religious and apocalyptic traditions.
- 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: Our Final Hour Target entity description: Our Final Hour is a science-focused book by cosmologist Martin Rees that warns about existential risks facing humanity in the 21st century and argues for responsible use of advanced technologies.
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A.
Until the Final Hour
"Until the Final Hour" is the memoir of Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s final private secretary, recounting her experiences inside the Führerbunker during the last days of the Third Reich.
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B.
The Final Hours
The Final Hours is a memoir by German Luftwaffe ace and later NATO commander Johannes Steinhoff, recounting his experiences during the final phase of World War II and its aftermath.
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C.
The Final Days
The Final Days is a nonfiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that chronicles the tumultuous final months of Richard Nixon’s presidency and the Watergate scandal.
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D.
The Last Day
"The Last Day" is a song featured on the album "On Purpose."
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E.
Day of Reckoning
Day of Reckoning is a concept signifying a final moment of judgment or ultimate accountability, often depicted in religious and apocalyptic traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| argues |
advanced technologies must be used responsibly to avoid catastrophe
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humanity faces unprecedented risks from its own technologies ⓘ |
| author | Martin Rees ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
long-term survival of humanity
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moral responsibility of scientists ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular science ⓘ science ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | cosmological perspective on human future ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readership
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policy makers ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
existential risks facing humanity in the 21st century
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responsible use of advanced technologies ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing the concept of existential risk
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raising public awareness of technological dangers ⓘ |
| proposes |
greater global cooperation to manage technological risks
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stronger regulation of dangerous technologies ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
ethics of science and technology
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existential risk ⓘ global catastrophic risk ⓘ longtermism ⓘ risk management ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Martin Rees ⓘ |
| subject |
cosmology
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ethics of technology ⓘ existential risk ⓘ future of humanity ⓘ global catastrophic risks ⓘ science and society ⓘ technological risk ⓘ |
| timeFrameDiscussed | 21st century ⓘ |
| warnsAbout |
artificial intelligence risks
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biotechnology risks ⓘ nanotechnology risks ⓘ nuclear weapons ⓘ terrorism using advanced technology ⓘ |
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: Our Final Hour Description of subject: Our Final Hour is a science-focused book by cosmologist Martin Rees that warns about existential risks facing humanity in the 21st century and argues for responsible use of advanced technologies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.