The Peripheral
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The Peripheral is a science fiction television series based on William Gibson’s novel, exploring themes of virtual reality, time manipulation, and dystopian futures.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Peripheral canonical | 5 |
| The Peripheral (TV series) | 1 |
| The Peripheral (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4205740 — 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 Peripheral Context triple: [Lisa Joy, producerOf, The Peripheral]
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
Periférico
Periférico is one of Mexico City’s main ring roads, a high-capacity urban freeway that encircles much of the city and connects numerous key neighborhoods and business districts.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
Devs
Devs is a science fiction thriller miniseries created by Alex Garland that explores themes of determinism, free will, and quantum computing within a secretive tech company.
- 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 Peripheral Target entity description: The Peripheral is a science fiction television series based on William Gibson’s novel, exploring themes of virtual reality, time manipulation, and dystopian futures.
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
Periférico
Periférico is one of Mexico City’s main ring roads, a high-capacity urban freeway that encircles much of the city and connects numerous key neighborhoods and business districts.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
Devs
Devs is a science fiction thriller miniseries created by Alex Garland that explores themes of determinism, free will, and quantum computing within a secretive tech company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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 Peripheral Description of subject: The Peripheral is a science fiction television series based on William Gibson’s novel, exploring themes of virtual reality, time manipulation, and dystopian futures.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.