The Ribos Operation
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The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ribos Operation canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3435503 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ribos Operation Context triple: [Romana, firstAppearance, The Ribos Operation]
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A.
Cylonian affair
The Cylonian affair was an early 7th-century BCE Athenian political and religious crisis sparked by Cylon’s failed coup, which led to a notorious massacre of his supporters and long-lasting accusations of sacrilege against the Alcmaeonid family.
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B.
The Empire Project
The Empire Project is a major historical study by John Darwin that analyzes the rise, structure, and decline of the British Empire in global context.
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C.
Seldon Crisis
Seldon Crisis is a pivotal, mathematically predicted period of social and political upheaval in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, during which the course of galactic history can be decisively altered.
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D.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
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E.
To Serve Man
"To Serve Man" is a famous 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone, known for its twist ending involving seemingly benevolent aliens and a cookbook-like title.
- 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 Ribos Operation Target entity description: The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
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A.
Cylonian affair
The Cylonian affair was an early 7th-century BCE Athenian political and religious crisis sparked by Cylon’s failed coup, which led to a notorious massacre of his supporters and long-lasting accusations of sacrilege against the Alcmaeonid family.
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B.
The Empire Project
The Empire Project is a major historical study by John Darwin that analyzes the rise, structure, and decline of the British Empire in global context.
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C.
Seldon Crisis
Seldon Crisis is a pivotal, mathematically predicted period of social and political upheaval in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, during which the course of galactic history can be decisively altered.
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D.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
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E.
To Serve Man
"To Serve Man" is a famous 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone, known for its twist ending involving seemingly benevolent aliens and a cookbook-like title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Ribos Operation Description of subject: The Ribos Operation is a 1978 Doctor Who serial that opens the Key to Time season, featuring the Fourth Doctor and new companion Romana in a con-artist plot on a wintry alien world.
Referenced by (7)
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