Capricorn One
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Capricorn One is a 1978 conspiracy thriller film about a faked Mars landing, directed by Peter Hyams and known for its suspenseful plot and commentary on government deception.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Capricorn One canonical | 14 |
| Scorpio One | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1560650 — 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: Capricorn One Context triple: [Bill Butler, notableWork, Capricorn One]
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A.
Dark Star
"Dark Star" is an iconic, improvisation-heavy psychedelic rock song by the Grateful Dead that became a centerpiece of their live performances.
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B.
THX 1138
THX 1138 is a dystopian science fiction film set in a sterile, totalitarian future where citizens are controlled through drugs and surveillance.
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C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction novel and film exploring human evolution, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, renowned for its philosophical depth and visionary depiction of space travel.
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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.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action-thriller film centered on a high-tech military helicopter used for urban surveillance and combat.
- 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: Capricorn One Target entity description: Capricorn One is a 1978 conspiracy thriller film about a faked Mars landing, directed by Peter Hyams and known for its suspenseful plot and commentary on government deception.
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A.
Dark Star
"Dark Star" is an iconic, improvisation-heavy psychedelic rock song by the Grateful Dead that became a centerpiece of their live performances.
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B.
THX 1138
THX 1138 is a dystopian science fiction film set in a sterile, totalitarian future where citizens are controlled through drugs and surveillance.
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C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction novel and film exploring human evolution, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, renowned for its philosophical depth and visionary depiction of space travel.
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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.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action-thriller film centered on a high-tech military helicopter used for urban surveillance and combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Capricorn One Description of subject: Capricorn One is a 1978 conspiracy thriller film about a faked Mars landing, directed by Peter Hyams and known for its suspenseful plot and commentary on government deception.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.