Janek
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Janek is the gruff but good-natured captain of the spaceship Prometheus in Ridley Scott’s 2012 science fiction film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Janek canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749131 — 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: Janek Context triple: [Prometheus, character, Janek]
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A.
Paweł
Paweł is a common Polish given name, equivalent to the English name Paul.
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B.
Michał
Michał is a Polish given name commonly used for males, equivalent to the English name Michael.
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C.
Piotr
Piotr is the Polish form of the given name Peter, commonly used in Poland and among Polish-speaking communities.
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D.
Jakub
Jakub is a given name, common in Slavic countries, that is a cognate of the Latin name Iacomus (James).
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E.
Karol
Karol is the given name of Pope John Paul II, the Polish-born head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.
- 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: Janek Target entity description: Janek is the gruff but good-natured captain of the spaceship Prometheus in Ridley Scott’s 2012 science fiction film.
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A.
Paweł
Paweł is a common Polish given name, equivalent to the English name Paul.
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B.
Michał
Michał is a Polish given name commonly used for males, equivalent to the English name Michael.
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C.
Piotr
Piotr is the Polish form of the given name Peter, commonly used in Poland and among Polish-speaking communities.
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D.
Jakub
Jakub is a given name, common in Slavic countries, that is a cognate of the Latin name Iacomus (James).
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E.
Karol
Karol is the given name of Pope John Paul II, the Polish-born head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ spaceship captain ⓘ |
| alignment | heroic ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
2012 film Prometheus
ⓘ
linked to:
Prometheus
Alien franchise ⓘ Prometheus ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
David 8
ⓘ
Elizabeth Shaw ⓘ Meredith Vickers ⓘ |
| commanded | USCSS Prometheus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (production context) ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ridley Scott ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Alien universe ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Ridley Scott ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Prometheus (2012 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Prometheus
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasVehicle | USCSS Prometheus ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | crew of the Prometheus ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| notableAct | sacrifices himself by crashing the Prometheus into the Engineer ship ⓘ |
| occupation |
pilot
ⓘ
spaceship captain ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
good-natured
ⓘ
gruff ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Idris Elba ⓘ |
| ship | USCSS Prometheus ⓘ |
| worksFor | Weyland Corporation ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2012 ⓘ |
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: Janek Description of subject: Janek is the gruff but good-natured captain of the spaceship Prometheus in Ridley Scott’s 2012 science fiction film.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.