In Silico
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In Silico is a documentary film by Noah Hutton that critically follows and examines a decade-long, multimillion-dollar effort to simulate the human brain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| In Silico canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8095370 — 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: In Silico Context triple: [Noah Hutton, notableWork, In Silico]
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A.
Dreamlab
Dreamlab is a music production and songwriting duo known for crafting polished pop tracks for major artists.
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B.
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.
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C.
Behind the Cloud
"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: In Silico Target entity description: In Silico is a documentary film by Noah Hutton that critically follows and examines a decade-long, multimillion-dollar effort to simulate the human brain.
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A.
Dreamlab
Dreamlab is a music production and songwriting duo known for crafting polished pop tracks for major artists.
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B.
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.
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C.
Behind the Cloud
"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | documentary film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Noah Hutton ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
digital streaming
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theatrical release ⓘ |
| examines |
claims about simulating the human brain
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ethics of large-scale scientific promises ⓘ limits of computational models of the brain ⓘ relationship between hype and results in science ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
a decade-long brain simulation project
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attempts to simulate the human brain ⓘ multimillion-dollar neuroscience research ⓘ |
| followsForDuration | 10 years ⓘ |
| genre | documentary ⓘ |
| hasDirectorOfPhotography | Noah Hutton ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | critical ⓘ |
| hasTitle | In Silico ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Big Science projects
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linked to:
Reflections on Big Science
brain simulation ⓘ computational neuroscience ⓘ scientific research ⓘ |
| medium | feature-length film ⓘ |
| portrays |
funding and politics of large-scale neuroscience
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scientists working on brain simulation ⓘ tensions between scientific ambition and reality ⓘ |
| producer | Noah Hutton ⓘ |
| writer | Noah Hutton ⓘ |
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: In Silico Description of subject: In Silico is a documentary film by Noah Hutton that critically follows and examines a decade-long, multimillion-dollar effort to simulate the human brain.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.