Slartibartfast
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Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Slartibartfast canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450073 — 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: Slartibartfast Context triple: [Life, the Universe and Everything, featuresCharacter, Slartibartfast]
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A.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox is a two-headed, eccentric and wildly irresponsible ex-Galactic President from Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
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C.
Blagg
Blagg is a variant form of the surname "Black," typically arising as an alternative spelling in English-speaking regions.
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D.
Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
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E.
Roger the Alien
Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
- 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: Slartibartfast Target entity description: Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
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A.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox is a two-headed, eccentric and wildly irresponsible ex-Galactic President from Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
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C.
Blagg
Blagg is a variant form of the surname "Black," typically arising as an alternative spelling in English-speaking regions.
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D.
Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
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E.
Roger the Alien
Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Magrathean
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fictional character ⓘ planet designer ⓘ |
| affiliation | Magrathean planet designers ⓘ |
| ageDescriptor | elderly ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Life, the Universe and Everything
ⓘ
Mostly Harmless ⓘ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005 film) ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy television series
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arthur Dent
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Ford Prefect ⓘ The Bistromath ⓘ The Heart of Gold ⓘ Trillian ⓘ Zaphod Beeblebrox ⓘ |
| basedIn | Magrathean workshops ⓘ |
| characterType | comic character ⓘ |
| countryCoastDesigned | Norway ⓘ |
| creator | Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| employer | Magrathean planet-building industry ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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surface form:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe
|
| firstAppearance |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel, 1979)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series, 1978)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comic science fiction ⓘ |
| hasHobby | designing dramatic coastlines ⓘ |
| homeworld | Magrathea ⓘ |
| humorStyle | dry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing fjords
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winning an award for Norway's coastline ⓘ |
| language | Galactic English (in translations, English) ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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literature ⓘ radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | expositor of Magrathean planet-building ⓘ |
| notableQuote |
"I got an award for Norway."
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"I rather liked them. I designed them myself, you know. Fine sweeping lines..." ⓘ |
| notableWork | design of the coastline of Norway ⓘ |
| occupation | planet designer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
mildly eccentric
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self-deprecating ⓘ whimsical ⓘ |
| role |
guide to Arthur Dent on Magrathea
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participant in the campaign against the Krikkit robots ⓘ |
| species | Magrathean ⓘ |
| worksOn | custom-built luxury planets ⓘ |
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: Slartibartfast Description of subject: Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.