Airplane!
E136818
Airplane! is a 1980 satirical disaster-comedy film that parodies the conventions of airline and disaster movies with rapid-fire visual gags and deadpan humor.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airplane! canonical | 69 |
| Airplane! (1980 film) | 6 |
| Airplane! film series | 4 |
| "Airplane!" | 1 |
| Airplane! film universe | 1 |
| Airplane! franchise | 1 |
| Airplane! series | 1 |
| Airplane! universe | 1 |
| Airplane!Series | 1 |
| Airplane!Universe | 1 |
| cult comedy classic "Airplane!" | 1 |
| stewardess in "Airplane!" | 1 |
| the film Airplane! | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1191792 — 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: Airplane! Context triple: [Leslie Nielsen, notableWork, Airplane!]
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A.
Flight 5
Flight 5 is the fifth installment in the "Flight" anthology series of wordless graphic novel collections curated by Kazu Kibuishi, featuring short comics by various artists.
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B.
Flight 4
Flight 4 was the first successful Falcon 1 mission, marking SpaceX’s historic achievement of reaching orbit with a privately developed liquid-fueled rocket.
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C.
Flight 3
Flight 3 is an earlier installment in a sequence of flights or missions that directly precedes Flight 4.
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D.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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E.
Sully
"Sully" is a biographical drama film starring Tom Hanks as pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, depicting the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River.
- 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: Airplane! Target entity description: Airplane! is a 1980 satirical disaster-comedy film that parodies the conventions of airline and disaster movies with rapid-fire visual gags and deadpan humor.
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A.
Flight 5
Flight 5 is the fifth installment in the "Flight" anthology series of wordless graphic novel collections curated by Kazu Kibuishi, featuring short comics by various artists.
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B.
Flight 4
Flight 4 was the first successful Falcon 1 mission, marking SpaceX’s historic achievement of reaching orbit with a privately developed liquid-fueled rocket.
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C.
Flight 3
Flight 3 is an earlier installment in a sequence of flights or missions that directly precedes Flight 4.
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D.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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E.
Sully
"Sully" is a biographical drama film starring Tom Hanks as pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, depicting the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Airplane! Description of subject: Airplane! is a 1980 satirical disaster-comedy film that parodies the conventions of airline and disaster movies with rapid-fire visual gags and deadpan humor.
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brooke Hunter
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John Champion
subject linked to:
the 1957 film Zero Hour!
subject linked to:
the 1957 film Zero Hour!
linked to: Airplane!
linked to: Airplane!
linked to: Airplane!
linked to: Airplane!
linked to: Airplane!
linked to: Airplane!
subject linked to:
Ted Striker is a traumatized former fighter pilot
subject linked to:
Ted Striker is a traumatized former fighter pilot
linked to: Airplane!