Dr. Ryan Stone
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Dr. Ryan Stone is the rookie medical engineer and astronaut portrayed by Sandra Bullock in the space survival film "Gravity."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Ryan Stone canonical | 3 |
| Ryan Stone | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748050 — 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: Dr. Ryan Stone Context triple: [Gravity, mainCharacter, Dr. Ryan Stone]
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A.
Ellie Arroway
Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
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B.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
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C.
Artemis IV
Artemis IV is a planned NASA crewed lunar mission within the Artemis program, intended to help establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon.
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D.
Ripley
Ripley is a small town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England, known historically for its role in the region’s coal mining and industrial development.
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E.
Virginia Knight
Virginia Knight was the wife of California Governor Goodwin Knight and served as the state's First Lady during his tenure in office.
- 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: Dr. Ryan Stone Target entity description: Dr. Ryan Stone is the rookie medical engineer and astronaut portrayed by Sandra Bullock in the space survival film "Gravity."
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A.
Ellie Arroway
Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
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B.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
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C.
Artemis IV
Artemis IV is a planned NASA crewed lunar mission within the Artemis program, intended to help establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon.
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D.
Ripley
Ripley is a small town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England, known historically for its role in the region’s coal mining and industrial development.
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E.
Virginia Knight
Virginia Knight was the wife of California Governor Goodwin Knight and served as the state's First Lady during his tenure in office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gravity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hubble Space Telescope
ⓘ
International Space Station (ISS) ⓘ
linked to:
International Space Station
Tiangong space station (fictional depiction) ⓘ |
| awardAssociation | linked to Sandra Bullock's Academy Award nomination for Best Actress ⓘ |
| characterArc | from fear and despair to determination to survive ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Alfonso Cuarón ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA (fictional representation)
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Gravity universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Gravity
|
| filmReleaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| finalSceneLocation | Earth surface (lake/shore) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Gravity ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
science fiction film
ⓘ
space survival film ⓘ |
| hasChallenge |
limited oxygen supply
ⓘ
re-entry to Earth in damaged spacecraft ⓘ space debris field ⓘ |
| hasEmotion | grief over loss of daughter ⓘ |
| hasRelative | daughter (deceased) ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
medical engineering
ⓘ
spacecraft operation (basic) ⓘ spacewalk (EVA) ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
inexperienced in spaceflight
ⓘ
resilient ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| modeOfTransportation |
Shenzhou spacecraft (fictional use)
ⓘ
linked to:
Shenzhou crewed spacecraft
Soyuz spacecraft (fictional use) ⓘ
linked to:
Soyuz spacecraft
|
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (fictional)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission
|
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
medical engineer ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA mission (fictional) ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sandra Bullock ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mission specialist ⓘ |
| screenTimeFocus | primary ⓘ |
| settingOfAppearance | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| survives | orbital debris disaster (fictional) ⓘ |
| workLocation | space ⓘ |
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: Dr. Ryan Stone Description of subject: Dr. Ryan Stone is the rookie medical engineer and astronaut portrayed by Sandra Bullock in the space survival film "Gravity."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dr. Ryan Stone
linked to: Dr. Ryan Stone